[Infowarrior] - USG Wants American Internet to Work as A Microphone

[Richard Forno]

Government Wants American Internet to Work as A Microphone, Willing to
Mislead to Get There
By Ryan Singel EmailSeptember 24, 2007 | 4:26:17 PMCategories: Surveillance

The Bush Administration is pushing Congress hard to give the intelligence
community the authority to order domestic communication companies - your
ISP, a phone company, Skype or any email provider based in the United States
to turn on surveillance or turn over the content of communications to the
Intelligence community without a warrant.  The law just passed by Congress
this summer does just that, and the Administration wants that power made
permanent.

In short, the government and its supporters wants all of the internet to act
like a giant microphone that can be turned on at any moment in secret by the
government on any target without court oversight with the promise, but no
external oversight, that the nation's spooks are only using the microphone
to listen in on the nation's enemies. They say it's the same thing as
letting police set up sobriety checkpoints.

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