A full page advertisement, entitled"Big Brother isn't coming. He's already here," in the New York Times (Jan. 17, 2003), by Stop the Snooping in Washington D.C. (Http://www.SnopWatch.org), criticizes The Bush Administration's policy on civil liberty. According to Stop the Snooping, the Bush Administration has shamelessly used the War on Terrorism as an excuse to operate a secret government that restricts every American's civil liberties while deepening its costly entanglements with avaricious corporations, which are given expanding power, privileges, and immunities. History teaches us that such practices will lead to serious mistakes and boomeranging policies harmful to our country. Mr. Lee Tien is one of the many who signed the advertisement. Tien is a Senior Staff Attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, specializing in free speech law, including intersections with intellectual property law and privacy law. Before joining EFF, he was a sole practitioner specializing in Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) litigation. Mr. Tien has published articles on children's sexuality and information technology, anonymity, surveillance, and the First Amendment status of publishing computer software. Mr. Tien received his undergraduate degree in psychology from Stanford University, where he was very active in journalism at the Stanford Daily. After working as a news reporter at the Tacoma News Tribune for a year, he went to law school at Boalt Hall, University of California at Berkeley.