Big Brother Knows What Books You're Reading, But Swears He Doesn't Care

Following up on their logging of air traveler’s reading habits, the Department of Homeland Security claims non-interest in your reading habbits:

“I flatly reject the premise that we care at all about the latest Tom Clancy novel a traveler is reading,” Knocke said.

“But the fact does remain that CBP officials are going to be mindful of whether there is anything that suggests there could be possible violations of a law associated with a traveler or items in possession of a traveler as they make an admissibility decision about that traveler,” Knocke said. “That is what they are charged by Congress to do.”

You probably should care about what Tom Clancy novel a traveler is reading, seeing as Tom Clancy novel contain more ideas for terrorist plots than the back of bin Laden’s cocktail napkin.

# 2007 Sep 21