JoeBlam
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The progs fear of the Patriot Act during the Bush43 years fizzled when nobody was randomly investigated....not a single library card secretly copied from black helicopters. And so they shut up about it never imagining it would become what they feared most from Dear Leader's stalinist goons:
WASHINGTON The Obama administration is secretly carrying out a domestic surveillance program under which it is collecting business communications records involving Americans under a hotly debated section of the Patriot Act, according to a highly classified court order disclosed on Wednesday night.
.The order, signed by Judge Roger Vinson of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court in April, directs a Verizon Communications subsidiary, Verizon Business Network Services, to turn over on an ongoing daily basis to the National Security Agency all call logs between the United States and abroad or wholly within the United States, including local telephone calls.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/06/us/us-secretly-collecting-logs-of-business-calls.html?hp&_r=1&
Since his election, President Barack Obama has taken an expansive view of legal authorities in the name of national security, asserting that he can order the deaths of U.S. citizens abroad who are suspected of terrorism without involvement by courts, investigate reporters as criminals and in this case read and copy the contents of computers carried by U.S. travelers without a good reason to suspect wrongdoing.
Dept. of Homeland Security: Laptops, Phones Can Be Searched Based on Hunches « CBS DC
The FBI is unhappy that there are communications technologies that it cannot intercept, and wants a new requirement that software makers and communications companies create a back door so they can listen in when they want.
But a team of technology experts warns that would be nothing more than handing over to the nations enemies abilities they are not capable of developing for themselves.
sAccording to a recent report in the Washington Post, the issue is being raised by the FBI because there is currently no way to wiretap some of these communications methods easily, and companies effectively
The solution, according to the FBI, is a plan to fine companies when they fail to comply with wiretap orders, essentially requiring all companies to build a back door for wiretap capabilities into all their communications links.
Read more at Now FBI wants back door to all software
WASHINGTON The Obama administration is secretly carrying out a domestic surveillance program under which it is collecting business communications records involving Americans under a hotly debated section of the Patriot Act, according to a highly classified court order disclosed on Wednesday night.
.The order, signed by Judge Roger Vinson of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court in April, directs a Verizon Communications subsidiary, Verizon Business Network Services, to turn over on an ongoing daily basis to the National Security Agency all call logs between the United States and abroad or wholly within the United States, including local telephone calls.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/06/us/us-secretly-collecting-logs-of-business-calls.html?hp&_r=1&
Since his election, President Barack Obama has taken an expansive view of legal authorities in the name of national security, asserting that he can order the deaths of U.S. citizens abroad who are suspected of terrorism without involvement by courts, investigate reporters as criminals and in this case read and copy the contents of computers carried by U.S. travelers without a good reason to suspect wrongdoing.
Dept. of Homeland Security: Laptops, Phones Can Be Searched Based on Hunches « CBS DC
The FBI is unhappy that there are communications technologies that it cannot intercept, and wants a new requirement that software makers and communications companies create a back door so they can listen in when they want.
But a team of technology experts warns that would be nothing more than handing over to the nations enemies abilities they are not capable of developing for themselves.
sAccording to a recent report in the Washington Post, the issue is being raised by the FBI because there is currently no way to wiretap some of these communications methods easily, and companies effectively
The solution, according to the FBI, is a plan to fine companies when they fail to comply with wiretap orders, essentially requiring all companies to build a back door for wiretap capabilities into all their communications links.
Read more at Now FBI wants back door to all software
