National Intelligence Director Mike McConnell is drawing up plans for cyberspace spying that would make the current debate on warrantless wiretaps look like a "walk in the park," according to an interview published in the New Yorker's print edition today.
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So I wrote Senator Kennedy (and Senator Kerry) an email about the upcoming FISA/retroactive immunity legislation. Here's his response:
Dear [Mad Biologist]:
Thank you for your recent letter on the President's warrantless wiretapping program and the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. Protecting…
At The American Prospet, staff writer Adam Serwer ponders Why We Are Angry at the TSA:
The amount of freedom Americans have handed over to their government in the years since the 9/11 attacks is difficult to convey. We've simply accepted the idea of the government secretly listening in on our phone…
Sandefur posted an unusually important bit of information about the NSA wiretapping scandal at Positive Liberty the other day. Quoting Robert Levy, a constitutional scholar at the Cato Institute, he established that the FISA law explicitly said that warrantless wiretaps were only allowed during the…
There are a bunch of bills in Congress right now to update FISA to allow for warrantless wiretaps. The ACLU, naturally opposes this program. That leads Glib Fortuna to posture and preen and call them names, but without a shread of substance in his post. He quotes this comment from a CNS article…
So big brother's gonna find out I can't get my tiny penis up? No big deal. Considering people around the world seem eager to help me, I would imagine everyone already knows.
It's naive to think that big brother isn't already reading and listening to everything you do electronically, even if "big brother" is only a computer that notifies the real big brother if it finds something interesting in your email or your telephone conversation.
It might be naive, but at least it's still illegal. Big Mike wants to change that inconvenient fact - though probably, like waterboarding, only if it's not done to him.
The CIA wants access to UK identity files, too. The shame is we're so used to our government flushing our civil liberties away in the name of the war on terror, this news has been met with complete indifference when we should be marching on Downing Street with pitchforks and flaming brands.
Totalitarian governments love to build dossiers about everybody and spy on people so that they can crush anybody's who's a treat to their power.
I'm not saying that the US government is totalitarian, but it certainly wouldn't be a step in the direction of increased democracy and liberty...