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07/21/2005:

"Blair consults security chiefs over new powers"

Tony Blair will today meet senior intelligence officers and police chiefs to discuss what extra powers may be needed in the wake of the July 7 London bombings.
Ministers are already fast-tracking three new offences into law with the support of the opposition Conservatives and Liberal Democrats. Mr Blair wants to know if more can be done.

Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Ian Blair was expected to be among those to attend.

The controversial issue of whether evidence from phone-tapping should be admissible in court is likely to be discussed.

The government announced yesterday that extremists who use radical preaching, websites or inflammatory articles to incite others to commit acts of terrorism will face automatic vetting before being allowed into the country.

The home secretary, Charles Clarke, said officials would draw up a list of "unacceptable" activities intended to promote or provoke terrorism, in the wake of the London bombings, which killed 56 people and injured hundreds more.
Full: guardian.co.uk

D.C. considers random searches
“The suggestion that we're just going to do it randomly literally invites abuse and focusing on people who for subjective and unverifiable reasons are more suspect, which means that their skin is a different color.”

US and UK don't need the pretext of terrorism to curtail the civil liberties of their citizens, but it does make it easier. Whoever is behind 7/7 has far bigger fish to fry.