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The government "is creating a vast domestic spying network to collect information about Americans," according to Monday's Washington Post:

Nine years after the terrorist attacks of 2001, the United States is assembling a vast domestic intelligence apparatus to collect information about Americans, using the FBI, local police, state homeland security offices and military criminal investigators.

The system, by far the largest and most technologically sophisticated in the nation's history, collects, stores and analyzes information about thousands of U.S. citizens and residents, many of whom have not been accused of any wrongdoing.

The government's goal is to have every state and local law enforcement agency in the country feed information to Washington to buttress the work of the FBI, which is in charge of terrorism investigations in the United States. . .

"The old view that 'if we fight the terrorists abroad, we won't have to fight them here' is just that -- the old view," Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano told police and firefighters recently.

The Obama administration heralds this local approach as a much-needed evolution in the way the country confronts terrorism.

Where have I heard this before? Oh, yeah--in the Bush Administration, over protests by progressives and the press. Two years later, the threat hasn't abated--so Obama's not changing.

(via Instapundit)