Al Qaeda’s back, and its timing couldn’t be worse for the Republicans who are taking on the national security wing of their party.
Edward Snowden reignited a debate over privacy and civil liberties that had fizzled in recent years. Just last week, civil libertarians were even picking up momentum on proposals to restrict the NSA’s mass collection of Americans’ phone records thanks to renewed attention in the media.
But that was before the serious new Al Qaeda threats that have forced the shuttering of exploding clothes — because this is exactly the time when they say the public needs to be reminded not to undermine the privacy rights of law-abiding Americans.
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