"Four short years ago, the Census Bureau issued a long-overdue apology for allowing government data to be used to round up tens of thousands of Japanese Americans, who were interned. Here we are at the trailhead of a troubled path. Again." -- Robert L. Jamieson Jr., in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 2004-08-04, regarding news that the Census Bureau has been asked to tell the Department of Homeland Security where Muslim Americans and Americans of Arab heritage live.