It's alright if Bush gets more leeway to spy on more of us, isn't it?

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Bush Administration Proposes Expansion of Surveillance Law

By Jeff Bliss

April 13 (Bloomberg) -- The Bush administration proposed legislation today that would expand potential surveillance targets to include people in the U.S. suspected of possessing significant information on terrorist or enemy government plots.

The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act now allows the government to get court approval for eavesdropping only if it shows a clear link to an enemy government or terrorist group.

While the proposal would expand the pool of surveillance targets, to get a warrant the government would still have to offer evidence that the person would yield important intelligence, administration officials said.

The legislation is an attempt to modernize the 1978 FISA law to take into account the development of cell phones and e- mail, which have made it easier for terrorists to communicate, administration officials said.


http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601070&sid=aXN16AkXCVRM&refer=politics

[Monkeyman]

1. Crap DOD will be watching us opps already are

[Solly Mack]

2. Just anoint the fucker and be done with it

or stop him cold and undo every single solitary law, resolution or regulation that has come to pass under his reign

[pscot]

3. I wouldn't have it any other way

It's for our own good, you know.

[DearAbby]

4. to modernize

The legislation is an attempt to modernize the 1978 FISA law to take into account the development of cell phones and e- mail,- They cant even keep track of their own phucking emails...but they want the right to track yours and mine....NO DEAL, NO DICE, NADA

[hang a left]

5. I just commented on this article in LBN

This has everything to do with AT&T's appeal.

[hang a left]

6. It is SOP for this admin.

They get discovered breaking the law. They re-write the law and make it retroactive back to 1776.

[Solly Mack]

7. Sadly, that's true