The Washington Post reports today that the nation's law-enforcement agencies are linking together create a national intelligence database, which will make finding bad guys much easier. As Tucson police chief Richard Miranda puts it:
The kinds of things you saw in the movies then, we're actually doing now.
Information sharing's been a big goal since September 11, but as I've written before, the intelligence work portrayed in movies isn't necessarily a good thing.
And, lo and behold, as the Post also reports today, FBI director Robert Mueller has admitted that his agency improperly used national security letters to obtain personal information about thousands of Americans.
Taken in that light, the idea of a digital intelligence dragnet sounds like the makings of a Hollywood tragedy.
