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lot of power to pry into the lives of citizens and arrest
suspects in the name of pre-emption.
“France has a very aggressive system, and before
9/11 they were centralizing the intelligence process
and fixing laws to let them grab people very early to
disrupt anything in advance,” says Gary Schmitt, an
intelligence expert and resident scholar in security
studies at the American Enterprise Institute. “They do
a lot of things, including telephone intercepts, that
make the Patriot Act look namby-pamby. In the U.S.,
we talk of pre-emption in military terms, but the French
talk of it on the home front, to discover plots and
conspiracies.”
The French approach has been criticized for
overzealousness, racial bias and the abuse of civil
rights. And, when it fails, it faces scathing criticism.
Why were the authorities unable to stop the
The New York Times/ - Politics, Sáb, 31 de Março de 2012
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cold-blooded murder of seven unarmed people, three
soldiers, three children and a rabbi, shot in cold blood
by a man who was already on France’s radar for his
trips to the Afghan-Pakistani border and his interest in
Salafist Web sites?
Not since 1995, when a spate of bombings terrorized
Paris, have the French faced an attack on the scale
that occurred in Toulouse — some things are clearly
working. Still, for the French, that is little consolation,
just as America’s success in preventing another 9/11
on its soil can do little to atone for the errors that
preceded it.
The Paris bureau chief of The New York Times.
Maïa de la Baume contributed reporting.
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