April 11th 2009
Libs Mum On O’s Hyper-Surveillance
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magine, for just a moment, that the Bush/Rove Constitution Shredding Brigade had proposed to give the president the right to monitor without warrant all private communicaitons, emails, bank records and medical records on the internet … and even to shut it down, if he deemed it to be a threat to America’s security.
Do you suppose the Left might have become just a bit unhinged? A teeny, tiny bit? Knowing the answer, where do you suppose they are today as the Dems are proposing just that, something far, far more liberty-crushing than anything Bush ever proposed? It’s the Cybersecurity Act of 2009, a nasty little bill crafted by Jay Rockefeller and (RINO) Olympia Snowe. Here’s Power Line on it:
The most controversial provisions are Sec. 18 (2), which gives the President authority to shut down all or any portions of the internet that he may designate as “critical infrastructure information systems and networks,” and Sec. 14 (b)(1), which gives the Secretary of Commerce access to “all relevant data concerning such networks without regard to any provision of law, regulation, rule, or policy restricting such access.” Critics have interpreted this clause as giving the Secretary the ability to access, without any sort of search warrant, any internet communication. That looks like a reasonable interpretation, as long as the President has designated the network “critical infrastructure,” which he has unfettered (and unguided) discretion to do.
You know how generous and open I am, how I’m always willing to give the Lib goons the benefit of the doubt, so it shouldn’t surprise you that I went to the ACLU site and did a search for the act. But guess what? Nothing. Surprised?
hat-tip: Jim
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April 14th, 2009 at 5:01 am
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April 13th, 2009 at 6:11 pm
Here is something from Mother Jones. At least they are freaked out…
ML
April 13th, 2009 at 6:11 pm
Here is something from Mother Jones. At least they are freaked out…
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2009/04/should-obama-control-internet
ML