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Thanks in part to the Patriot Act, the federal government has been able to demand some details of your online activities from service providers - and not to tell you about it.

Disclosure of private e-mails from government officials has been a legal issue in many states.

At that point, which would be around February 2002, they came and they confiscated my computer, because, they said, they were suspecting that I was communicating with certain Senate members and taking this issue outside the Bureau.

But the Congress has made the determination that certain kinds of information can be protected even though the American people may want to have access to information.

I don't know whether I'm, like, jumping the gun but it's possible that in the future we may be able to use the information that we can't receive at the moment.

The American people have been denied important information for their own protection.

There's no question there's enough information available to all of us in this society for darn near anything. The problem is the quality of the information, the presentation of it... You shouldn't have to be a lawyer.

But the issue became, how long do you keep the press waiting so that you can gather more information?

For 'Never Knowing,' I outlined it and then blocked it out on my office wall with index cards, but things still happened organically.

Being flooded with information doesn't mean we have the right information or that we're in touch with the right people.