But they were quaintly obsolescent (and downright gentlemanly) to Colonel Smith’s eye. Lacking Homeland Security’s access to the NSA’s unblinking oversight—the eye of Sauron, DHS’s critics called it—they couldn’t turn all the neighbors’ wifi hotspots into wall-piercing radar. Regular cops had to manually direct traffic away from the quiet residential street, for there was no blanket authority to override vehicle automation here. Nor could they remotely lock or unlock all the doors in the neighborhood. It was, in fact, a dismayingly old-fashioned raid: muscular men and a few women in body armor
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