Rummy's Secret Police

Because every great Fascist dictatorship needs a Gestapo:

As part of the expanding counterterrorism role being taken on by the Pentagon, Defense Intelligence Agency covert operatives need to be able to approach potential sources in the United States without identifying themselves as government agents, George Peirce, the DIA's general counsel, said yesterday.

"This is not about spying on Americans," Peirce said in an interview in which he defended legislative language approved last week by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. The provision would grant limited authority for DIA agents to clandestinely collect information about U.S. citizens or emigres [i.e. anyone... gandhi] in this country to help determine whether they could be recruited as sources of intelligence information.

Best bit:

Peirce said the new authority "would not be used very often and only on an exceptional basis."