BUSHCO: DRAFTING PLAN TO GIVE GOV'T ACCESS TO ANY EMAIL, WEB SEARCH
US drafting plan to allow government access to any email or Web search
RAW STORY
Published: Monday January 14, 2008
National Intelligence Director Mike McConnell is drawing up plans for cyberspace spying that would make the current debate on warrantless wiretaps look like a "walk in the park," according to an interview published in the New Yorker's print edition today:
http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/WashWire.pdf.............
McConnell is developing a Cyber-Security Policy, still in the draft stage, which will closely police Internet activity.
"Ed Giorgio, who is working with McConnell on
the plan, said that would mean giving the government the authority to examine the content of any e-mail, file transfer or Web search," author Lawrence Wright pens.
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According to a 2007 conversation in the Oval Office, McConnell told President Bush, “If the 9/11 perpetrators had focused on a single US bank through cyber-attack and it had been successful, it would have an order of magnitude greater impact on the US economy.”
Bush turned to Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, asking him if it was true; Paulson said that it was.
Bush then asked to McConnell to come up with a network security strategy.more at:
http://rawstory.com/news/2007/US_drafting_plan_to_allow_government_0114.html
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