US drafting plan to allow government access to any email or Web search

US drafting plan to allow government access to any email or Web search

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.

Debate on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act “will be a walk in the park compared to this,” McConnell said. “this is going to be a goat rope on the Hill. My prediction is that we’re going to screw around with this until something horrendous happens.”

The article, which profiles the 65-year-old former admiral appointed by President George W. Bush in January 2007 to oversee all of America's intelligence agencies, was not published on the New Yorker's Web site.

McConnell is developing a Cyber-Security Policy, still in the draft stage, which will closely police Internet activity.

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The terrorists could start their own cable TV station given the seeming lack of action by Bush & Co.

They try so hard to get you to install them- practically every program you install now has a pre-checked option to install them. I'm certain (no proof, only a gut feeling) those "innocent" little add-ons have a LOT more inside them than we know about, such as automatic monitoring and reportage of web searches and visited sites...