Edwards Proposes Anti-terror Group
Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2007 1:02 am
Not sure if anyone saw this or not. Looks like they are wanting to centralize everything in spying. Besides, it would be almost impossible for reliabilities sake.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/09/us/po ... ref=slogin
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/09/us/po ... ref=slogin
September 9, 2007
John Edwards, the Democratic presidential candidate, introduced a plan to combat global terrorism by having nations cooperate to share financial, police, customs and immigration intelligence to detect potential terrorist plots.
In an address Friday in Lower Manhattan, Mr. Edwards said that if elected president, he would form a Counterterrorism and Intelligence Treaty Organization to help the authorities to track and shut down terrorist cells.
“We saw the promise of a new multilateral approach just a couple of days ago in Germany,” Mr. Edwards said, referring to the arrests of three men there who were suspected of plotting attacks on American interests. “We must be able to coordinate similar operations throughout the world — in the Middle East, Asia, Africa and anywhere in the world the terrorists may attack.”
He clarified that membership in the treaty group would be contingent upon the willingness of each nation to combat terrorism actively.