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groovychkA bill radically redefining and expanding the government's ability to eavesdrop and search the houses of U.S. citizens without court approval passed a key Senate committee Wednesday, and may be voted on by the full Senate as early as next week.
By a 10-8 vote, the Senate Judiciary Committee approved SB2453, the National Security Surveillance Act (.pdf), which was co-written by committee's chairman Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Pennsylvania) in concert with the White House.
.. Specter's bill concedes the government's right to wiretap Americans without warrants, and allows the U.S. Attorney General to authorize, on his own, dragnet surveillance of Americans so long as the stated purpose of the surveillance is to monitor suspected terrorists or spies.
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,71778-0.html?tw=wn_index_1
and the bill
http://blog.wired.com/27BStroke6/s2453.pdf
By a 10-8 vote, the Senate Judiciary Committee approved SB2453, the National Security Surveillance Act (.pdf), which was co-written by committee's chairman Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Pennsylvania) in concert with the White House.
.. Specter's bill concedes the government's right to wiretap Americans without warrants, and allows the U.S. Attorney General to authorize, on his own, dragnet surveillance of Americans so long as the stated purpose of the surveillance is to monitor suspected terrorists or spies.
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,71778-0.html?tw=wn_index_1
and the bill
http://blog.wired.com/27BStroke6/s2453.pdf
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Date: 2006-09-15 06:38 am (UTC)Pretty soon, all public travel will require checking all items, and you'll be issued travel-gowns. We'll be harrassed for our ID not only for air travel, but by periodic interstate checkpoints. We'll be told to report our neighbors if they're terrorists, because it'd be the American thing to do. We'll be asked to help cleanse America of a disease. We'll be forced to pledge alegiance under threat of incarceration.
Welcome to the fatherland.
More good news...
Date: 2006-09-20 02:47 pm (UTC)http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1152AP_Internet_Records_Gonzales.html
Note the special use of the word "harmonize". I'm thinkin' Bowie's 1984... Grrr...