I'm very suspect of “more powers equals greater efficacy”. At the same time that the civil liberties organization is very much of the view that there is more than one good and that national security is a powerful good, we want to ensure that the appropriate tools are in the hands of our intelligence agencies. In order to do that, we need to understand the problem in greater specificity. If the problem was literally that there was some difficulty in understanding what the provisions already allowed for in the exemptions for disclosure in the Privacy Act were, then clarifying those exemptions is clearly the tool that we need to address those.
Again, if that were required in order to get appropriate information sharing on an individual basis, we would be very much in favour and and would roll up our sleeves to help draft that provision.