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Soundbites

13 September 2003

“I don’t think that’s the best use of our technology. The hype got way ahead of the capabilities.”

Bernard Bailey of Viisage, admitting his company’s face-recognition technology should not have been installed at US airports to catch terrorists (The Boston Globe, 30 August)

“It is clear the US authorities did little or nothing to pre-empt the events of 9/11… at least 11 countries provided advance warning.”

Former UK environment minister Michael Meacher suggesting the Bush administration allowed the attacks to happen in order to justify invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq (The Guardian, London, 6 September)

“Monstrously offensive.”

Response to Meacher’s…

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