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The war on terror and individual rights.
A glimpse inside the war on terror, from O'Neill's book by way of DeLong's blog:
- O'Neill, meanwhile, would head up the first active assault: the financial war [on terror]. But how? Over the next few days, O'Neill met with David Aufhauser, who, he decided, should act as an honest broker... organizing a fractious interagency group to track terror assets... seize some assets, and quickly. The President was to announce the new executive order on September 24[, 2001], launching the war on terrorism. He needed some assets to point to. "It was almost comical," Aufhauser said. "we just listed out as many of the usual suspects as we could and said, Let's go freeze some of their assets."
Not that this was enabled by the USA PATRIOT Act, but . . . .
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“It was fortunate that so few men acted according to moral principle, because it was so easy to get principles wrong, and a determined person acting on mistaken principles could really do some damage." - Larissa MacFarquhar
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