Fascist Pigs Monitor Emails
That was probably a headline in a blog during the GW days.
But, I am using it today for the current administration’s move down the road away from individual freedom. Do not confuse my position with being anti-intelligence. I am all for intelligence. But I am also aware that laws and practices of today can be utilized in the future toward darker ends.
A key Democrat on Capitol Hill, Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Patrick Leahy of Vermont, wants a timeout.
The administration’s proposal to change the Electronic Communications Privacy Act “raises serious privacy and civil liberties concerns,” Leahy said Thursday in a statement.
As with many moves by the current Marxists, the laws are on the books. As with others this move seeks to obscure the actions and sidestep legal procedure which protects unwarranted invasion of privacy.
To deal with the issue, there’s no need to change the law since the FBI has the authority to obtain the same information with a court order issued under a broad section of the Patriot Act, said Gregory Nojeim, director of the Project on Freedom, Security and Technology at the Center for Democracy and Technology, a nonprofit Internet privacy group.
The critics say the proposed change would allow the FBI to remove federal judges and courts from scrutiny of its requests for sensitive information.
“The implications of the proposal are that no court is deciding whether even that low standard of `relevance’ is met,” said Nojeim. “The FBI uses national security letters to find not just who the target of an investigation e-mailed, but also who those people e-mailed and who e-mailed them.”
The legislature, judicial branch and the administration act in concert to govern our nation. When one branch seeks to eliminate the other two, we should believe it’s a power grab which erodes our individual rights.
