Feds: Turn Internet into Spy Machine

Ryan Singel / Wired News:
The Associated Press's Laurie Kellman leads off her Tuesday story about the mid-summer "emergency" fight over expanding the nation's surveillance laws with this paean to power: "Congress and President Bush's aides worked on Monday to expand the government's surveillance authority without jeopardizing citizens' rights, aides to lawmakers and the White House said." Did Kellman read the proposed bill? The bill (.pdf) that would change the nation's surveillance laws so that that the government would be free to spy on the contents of an Americans' phone or emails so long as the government "reasonably believes" the person is not in the country.

Posted by Editor at August 2, 2007 03:03 AM