The Washington Post’s Spencer S. Hsu reports that the Privacy Coalition, a group of major civil libertarians and plain old libertarian groups are upset with the Department of Homeland Security’s commitment to privacy. The coalition wants to strengthen the hand of the DHS privacy officer to stop practices like searching the laptop computers of travelers who take a flight or cross the border.

At issue here is an expectation from coalition members like the ALCU and Electronic Frontier Founddation that in securing the country the Obama administration would better respect civil liberties than the Bush administration. Hsu notes that such expectations have already been dampened by the administration working with Congress to pass a new Patriot Act.

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