Re: Fwd: [Infowarrior] - GOP pushing for ISPs to record user data

[Jeffrey Walton <noloader () gmail com>]

On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 1:36 AM,  <Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu> wrote:
> On Mon, 24 Jan 2011 22:54:59 CST, Dan White said:
> > My hope is that whatever laws we end up with are ultimately based around
> > traditional warrant based prosecution rather than 'give us all your logs on
> > the first of every month'.
>
> Three words: National Security Letters.
>
> Two more words: Warrantless wiretaps.
>
> Combine that with an officially stated position by the Bush administration
> that even the FISA court fig leaf warrants are too burdensome (and not
> officiallyrepudiated by the Obama administration as far as I know), and the
> known abuse of NSL's and other surveillance methods, I don't hold out
> much hope for laws based on "traditional warrant based prosecution" unless
> we see a sudden sea change in DC.
My thoughts exactly. The best I can tell, my own government is a
greater threat to me that Bin Laden and friends.

Jeff
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