Great. So now the FBI is saying "if only it were lawful to deploy Carnivore everywhere, and we could sift through everyone's communications without a warrant, we might have had a clue this was coming." The scary part is that Congress just might go for it this time. At 05:40 PM 9/12/2001, John Combs wrote: >ABC News, Sept. 12 — Advanced technologies and more sophisticated methods >of organization have made would-be international terrorists more difficult >for the U.S. government to identify and stop, experts say. > >The increased use of fiber-optic cable for telecommunications and the >proliferation of advanced cryptography to conceal information have made it >harder for U.S. authorities to eavesdrop on terrorists to prevent attacks, >experts say. > >And for such reasons, they say, U.S. government agencies apparently failed >to detect and prevent Tuesday's terror attacks that killed thousands of >people and destroyed four airliners, the World Trade Center and part of >the Pentagon. > >... > >http://abcnews.go.com/sections/us/DailyNews/wtc_counterterrorism_010912.html