U.S. Airport Screeners Are Watching What You Read

"Privacy advocates obtained database records showing that the government routinely records the race of people pulled aside for extra screening as they enter the country, along with cursory answers given to U.S. border inspectors about their purpose in traveling. In one case, the records note Electronic Frontier Foundation co-founder John Gilmore's choice of reading material, and worry over the number of small flashlights he'd packed for the trip....'There is so much sensitive information in the documents that it is clear that Homeland Security is not playing straight with the American people,' Scannell said." Surely, people all over the country are gasping in surprise at this revelation...the government has been dishonest with us? Oh well...I?m sure it is "for our own good."