Security?

The bottom line can be summed up in three words: Security. Confidentiality. Privacy. These three words define our organic problem as attorneys.

Let's start with the undisguised abrogation of our constitutional right to privacy and to be free from government control--at airports. Using terrorism as a lame excuse, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security presents us with two draconian choices if we wish to board an aircraft: get exposed to cancer-causing radiation, while at the same time be viewed and observed naked; or be groped throughout your entire body during a "pat-down."

These choices are unacceptable. The "ethereal terrorists" could commit the same criminal acts--with worse results in places other than airports--with little or no security: stadiums, courthouses, hospitals, department stores, schools, bridges, tunnels. As members of The Florida Bar, we can surely influence the TSA and their laughable security measures which cannot even detect PETN--the powder explosive currently favored by insurgents. "The Department of Homeland Security and the TSA represent a greater long-term threat to the prosperity, character, and well-being of the U.S., than a few madmen in the valleys of Waziristan or the voids of Yemen"--Roger Cohen.

Regarding the theft and publication of classified/secret U.S. Department of State cables:

In addition to being a lawyer and former prosecutor, I have the honor and privilege of being a diplomat--since 1983. And in that regard I can assert categorically that diplomacy is founded upon three things: honor, trust, and confidentiality. Once those...