[privacy] CDT: NSA Bill 'Major Disaster'

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

Via 27B Stroke 6.

[snip]

The Center for Democracy and Technology's policy director Jim Dempsey,
a longtime expert on national security law who testified to the
Judiciary Committee on Senator Arlen Specter's NSA bill, described the
bill's passage out of committee a "major disaster."

Specter's bill was drafted in concert with the Vice President's office,
and Specter has championed the bill because the administration promised
him that it would submit its warrantless wiretapping program to a
secret court for review, though the bill makes that optional, and
arguably makes the program legal, due to changes to the law governing
surveillance.

[snip]

More:
http://blog.wired.com/27BStroke6/index.blog?entry_id=1556069

Also, the CDT website has an extensive analysis on this:
http://cdt.org/

- ferg


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 ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/

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