For McConnell, Security Trumps Privacy
By Allan Holmes | Tuesday, January 15, 2008 | 05:26 PM
By Allan Holmes | Tuesday, January 15, 2008 | 05:26 PM
Privacy and security has always been a tug-of-war issue: The argument is you have to give up some privacy to get some security. Mike McConnell, the director of national intelligence, is working on a cybersecurity plan that would ask Americans to give up a lot of privacy to get their security, according to a New Yorker article. (Subscription required.)
The proposal that is getting the most attention is giving the government the ability to search "the content of any email, file transfer or web search," according to an article on vnunet.com.
According to that article, the New Yorker author, Lawrence Wright:
suggested that this kind of monitoring is already going on. He spoke to an AT& T employee, Mark Klein, who claimed that he installed data switching systems in the company's exchange that copied all internet traffic to the National Security Agency."I know that whatever went across those cables was copied and the entire data stream was copied," said Klein. "We are talking about domestic as well as international traffic."
He added that previous claims by the Bush administration that only international communications were being intercepted are not accurate.
Comments
Unfortunately, NSA is mostly run by contractors and those contractors have divisions that are competing against other companies for contracts. My own company was made a victim of industrial espionage because of this situation, and the first of our saboteurs, Dustin Foggo will soon be tried on related charges. Unfortunately, CIA has access to everything collected by NSA's review of emails, and Dustin Foggo was in Brent Wilkes' pocket with Wilkes and 911 orchestrators wanting to control my company.
The public needs to demand that better checks and balances be adopted in this program, because Wilkes and Foggo were in the pocket of 911 orchestrators! I am not going to disclose who the real orchestrators are here, but let US DOJ and JTTF instead make that public when they've fully completed their investigations. I will only say that it will be a lot for the common man to get his arms around and be able to grasp. Keep in mind that Wilkes and Foggo were in positions to falsify information to protect their 911 conspirators.
Dawn | Monday, February 18, 2008 | 02:13 AMI always wonder why so many people worry about this issue called privacy. What are we hiding from, our wives, girlfriend, or just want to OPPOSE! all you that oppose this article should wonder what we really stand for not this bs I here all the time privacy,property,freedom of speach, who stops you from these rights, we live a very short period of time then we die, what happens to all these rights then. all you concerned citizens, lets here your plan, what would you do if you had the ball in your court, probably just throw it away like you do with your mouth. IF YOU HAVE BEEN IN THE MILITARY FIGHTING FOR YOUR COUNTRY YOU WOULD THINK DIFFERENT. FIRST YOU DON'T GET ACCUSTOMED TO LOSS OF ANY THING, ESPECIALLY WHEN ITS YOUR FREEDOM THAT WE ARE FIGHTING FOR, LOOK LOW THEY MAY BE CRAWLING, CHARLIE MAY BE EVERYWHERE, EVEN YOU.
DENNIS D HORTON | Monday, January 21, 2008 | 12:52 PMSomone once said: " A society that will trade it's liberty foro security will soon have neither!" or words to that effect.
And
"Today's threat to our national security is not a matter of military weapons alone. We know of new methods of attack. The Trojan hours. The fifth column that betrays a nation unprepared for treachery. Spies, saboteurs and traitors are the actors in this new strategy. With all of this, we must and will deal vigorously."
President Franklin D. Roosevelt, May 26, 1940
Just one more example of how close we are coming to a dictatorship or police state with the current adminstration. The elections can not come soon enough. Let's just hope that some national emergency is not staged or arranged that will cause the current adminstration to seek the power to cancel or delay the upcoming elections in the name of national security and which our cowardly congress will endorse rather than be leaders with the nations interest at heart rather than their own personal interest.
dport | Wednesday, January 16, 2008 | 08:19 PMVery very scary proposal. The enemy is US
Anonymous | Wednesday, January 16, 2008 | 04:45 PMThis is so wrong. It goes against everything we stand for; privacy, property, freedom of speech. It is wrong. People in the military may get accustomed to loss of freedom and privacy but that doesn't make it right for the rest of the country. Gen. McConnell needs to revisit his stand in light of our Constitution, the one he has sworn to defend, not destroy.
Very concerned citizen | Wednesday, January 16, 2008 | 12:04 PMABOUT THIS BLOG
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