User talk:Hcberkowitz/Sandbox-Influencing

Challenges of drawing the line
In CIA domestic activities, there sometimes is a blurry line between surveillance of individuals for reasons at least partially connected to security, and use of that information for other purposes such as political pressure. In some cases, the surveillance was of reporters who were asked, at some time, to provide information to the CIA, a practice not explictly illegal.

I'm having difficulty deciding how much domestic surveillance should be in this article. Should the article contain a section on just that? Should it be restricted to where the surveillance had something to do with influence, or partisan political use? Should there be a separate article on domestic surveillance?

Howard C. Berkowitz (talk) 17:36, 12 March 2008 (UTC)