Barry Steinhardt Quotations

Is it a step forward? Yes. Is it foolproof? That remains to be proven.

CALEA in a sense is the culmination of where we've been. Now the communications network is built to be wiretap-ready, so you don't need Carnivore anymore. It's just intrinsic to the system.

CALEA in a sense is the culmination of where we've been, ... Now the communications network is built to be wiretap-ready, so you don't need Carnivore anymore. It's just intrinsic to the system.

Echelon is a black box, and nobody outside the intelligence community knows what is inside it.

If the machines are limited to detecting explosives, then they are a step forward both for security and civil liberties from the pat-down searches and metal detectors. However, the technology can be used to identify anything that has a chemical trace, including, for example, drugs, so we wonder what this will morph into over time.

When we begin to say to police officers that they're allowed to guess about who's dangerous, we're inviting the possibility of abuse.

The FBI's position is essentially, 'Trust us, we're the government,' ... But we have a long history of the FBI abusing its authority.

There's absolutely no bar on collecting plates in public. There haven't been any legal challenges, because it's not illegal.

skeptical that you can both identify dangerous items and eliminate embarrassing imagery.

You have tens of thousands of screeners, with haphazard training and professionalism that varies widely, ... All of this raises the questions of, are we really safer now? And are we getting anything out of this agency, except hassles?