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Its the "Plague of Lawyers" that will spring into action at the slightest perception of discrimination.

Well, I concede that you make a valid point, especially after starting to read John Stossel's book "Myths, Lies, and Downright Stupidity". However, if Bush, DHS, TSA, or whomever decided to start profiling, all they have to do is include a clause that states that, as a nation in war, we have the right to defend ourselves in any manner we see fit and lawsuits for searches conducted to safeguard our security (which includes profiling) will not be accepted.

Except we are not a nation at war !
We are a nation at 'Congressional Resolution' or whatever the hell that constitutional abortion is !
I don't blame Bush for this, this stupid '1/2 war 1/2 peace notion is a relic of Cold War power politics and super power restraint.(SARCASM MODE ON> Besides a 'Declaration of War' is so 18th century ! SARCASM MODE OFF>) I am sure the his advisers deluded themselves into thinking that a 'Congressional Resolution was all that was needed. It is an outmoded concept now and should have been discarded at the end of the Cold War. On September 12 2001 Bush should have asked for a 'Declaration of War', he would have gotten it then ! I think the fact that terrorist organizations a re not state entities is a phony argument against such a Declaration and would be less a twist of the Constitution then a 'Congressional Resolution'. (Besides when is Congress ever resolute !)Now he wouldn't get such a declaration, the Administration stepped up and could have had the saber instead they chose the putty knife and are now paying the political consequences. A 'Declaration of War' concentrates the mind and defines in no uncertain terms the political state of play between the belligerent nations.