Obama’s surveillance power grab
The comment below is from a Leftist site but I think they have a point
"They’re calling it a tweak — a ‘technical clarification’ — but make no mistake: The Obama administration and the FBI’s demand that Congress approve a huge expansion of their authority to obtain the sensitive Internet records of American citizens without a judge’s approval is a brazen attack on civil liberties.
At issue is the scope of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s power to obtain information from ‘electronic communications service providers’ using National Security Letters (NLS), which compel private companies to allow government access to communication records without a court order.
The administration wants to add four words — ‘electronic communication transactional records’ — to Section 2709 of the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, which spells out the types of communications data that can be obtained with an NSL.”
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3 comments:
Isn't this pretty much the same thing leftists were ready to lynch Bush for trying?
Far too many Americans have yet to realize that their government (and their country) has been taken away from them. No, it didn't happen via some violent overthrow as we've seen in so many movies and 3rd-world countries. But make no mistake. It did happen, and we're actually funding ($$) it. When it comes to deciding what is happening (and will happen) to our country, the people have been pushed aside and their will ignored. And, as if administering some anaesthetic to the country, the Marxist-in-Chief goes on TV and tells us that "this is what WE want!" This is the kind of abuse of power that gives birth to armed revolutions.
But have no fear. This is America, 2010, where, generally speaking, people have become used to being abused by their elected officials, especially when those abuses are made to look unimportant by the highly-biased political activists who disguise themselves as members of "an impartial" MSM. Are the American people capable of waking up and regaining their will? We'll see in Nov.
Well said spider. And here's something that makes your comments even more appropriate.
http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/
Article/542171/201007301830/Will-Washingtons-Failures-Lead-To-Second-American-Revolution-.aspx
The left was always ready to criticize Bush as doing something they really wanted the power to do themselves.
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