06/17/02
Databased Profiling on Common Turf
As a regular ol’ citizen, I’m getting pretty sick of hearing about “turf wars” among government bureaucracies. If the staffs of these organizations are hesitant to share information and influence, they need a little prodding. Perhaps the suggestion that a series of new hires and promotions might follow a refusal to work together would suffice.
But such serious statements would be unbalanced if our nation continues to play politically correct footsy under the negotiating table. FBI agent Coleen Rowley has become famous for pointing out the squashing of an investigation of Zacarias Moussaoui, but very few people are asking why it happened. Yes, the layers of bureaucracy are to blame, but a specific element of the “evidence” probably decreased its likelihood of jumping through the necessary hoops.
This essay has been published in Just Thinking: Volume I, 10/29/01–10/21/02 and is available in Confidence Place: The Timshel Arts Store.
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