Will Homeland Security intelligence target all U. S. citizens?

A Department of Homeland Security official said Secretary Janet Napolitano has been looking to improve the use of intelligence in screening airline passengers, including U.S. citizens.

The same question is circulating on Capitol Hill. "We're exploring it," said Rep. Jane Harman, a California Democrat who chairs the Homeland Security subcommittee on intelligence. "This is an extremely hard question."

The agency with perhaps the greatest leeway to gather information that might indicate ill intentions from individuals who aren't already on a watch list is Homeland Security's Customs and Border Protection agency, which can question anyone to determine whether they are a threat when entering the U.S.

"How do you do that with people who are living in this country, who are naturalized citizens or are born here?" said a U.S. counterterrorism official. "That's exactly the challenge were trying to think through."


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