I believe that increasing the power of the FBI is wrong.  Who
recently handed over 400 files incorrectly?  I believe in allowing
domestic encryption.  I am against the clipper chip. 

There is no way that we will be able to stop terrorism by 
increasing survelliance.  We should not employ that many federal
agents.  In order to have enough people to utilize the power that
the federal government is asking for, we would need to hire many 
more people to be able to keep an eye on the population.  More
agents means more managers, which means more beauracracy.  Worse,
it means more places for a mole.  

Increasing the surveliance powers of the FBI does not solve the
problem.  It is a band-aid to a bigger problem.  The larger 
problem is that many people in America are dissatisfied with
life.  People are hopeless and they feel they have nothing 
to live for.  If a person is unable to get a satisfying job
and unable to support their family, they are more likely than
a happy well-adjusted citizen to turn their anger outward, place
the blame elsewhere, join a milita or a hate group, and commit
an act of terrorism.  

The only real way we can decrease terrorism is the ha