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“More disturbing than the false alarm and subsequent cover-up is the ease with which one of the most powerful federal agencies was seduced into a hunt for a citizen’s airplane. More abuses are almost sure to follow if the perpetrators get away this time, if controls on Homeland Security are not implemented and if secrecy prevails.”

That’s a choice graf from a must-read editorial on the Texas/Homeland Security shenanigans in today’s Austin American-Statesman.

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