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Are you looking forward to the vote by democrats to allow warrentless wire taps of your e-mails? - Obama hood - Spread the Wealth - 12-19-2012 12:41 PM
http://times247.com/articles/senate-bill-would-grant-warrantless-access-to-email
A Senate proposal touted as protecting Americans' e-mail privacy has been quietly rewritten, giving government agencies more surveillance power than they possess under current law.
CNET has learned that Patrick Leahy, the influential Democratic chairman of the Senate Judiciary committee, has dramatically reshaped his legislation in response to law enforcement concerns. A vote on his bill, which now authorizes warrantless access to Americans' e-mail, is scheduled for next week. ...
Leahy's rewritten bill would allow more than 22 agencies -— including the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Federal Communications Commission — to access Americans' e-mail, Google Docs files, Facebook wall posts, and Twitter direct messages without a search warrant. It also would give the FBI and Homeland Security more authority, in some circumstances, to gain full access to Internet accounts without notifying either the owner or a judge.
Read more: http://times247.com/articles/senate-bill-would-grant-warrantless-access-to-email#ixzz2CnSTxPRZ
- mom - 12-19-2012 12:49 PM
Homeland security already does that. How do you think they got all the information on Petraeus and the others. Emails.
- Thurston - 12-19-2012 12:49 PM
I dont like where any of this is heading.
- AMERICA IS DEAD - 12-19-2012 12:49 PM
The NSA already reads everything, along with every foreign government. To believe anything else is foolish.