We used to be a great nation; now we are comparable to the worst police states in history!
"Justice Department may ease domestic spying regulations" by Spencer S. Hsu and Carrie Johnson, Washington Post | August 16, 2008
WASHINGTON - The Justice Department has proposed a new domestic spying measure that would make it easier for state and local police to collect intelligence about Americans, share the sensitive data with federal agencies and retain it for at least 10 years.
The proposed changes would revise the federal government's rules for police intelligence-gathering for the first time since 1993 and would apply to any of the nation's 18,000 state and local police agencies that receive roughly $1.6 billion each year in federal grants.
Translation: If you don't agree as a locality to the federal intrusion, they will hold back $$$. That is what is known as EXTORTION where I come from.
Quietly unveiled late last month, the proposal is part of a flurry of domestic intelligence changes issued and planned by the Bush administration in its waning months.
That's how they do everything. And why now?
They include a recent executive order that guides the reorganization of federal spy agencies and a pending Justice Department overhaul of FBI procedures for gathering intelligence and investigating terrorism cases within US borders.
Yeah, and even the REPUBLICANS in CONGRESS PROTESTED IT!!!
Why not tell us that, MSM?
Taken together, critics in Congress and elsewhere say, the moves are intended to lock in policies for Bush's successor and to enshrine controversial post-Sept. 11 approaches that some say have fed the greatest expansion of executive authority since the Watergate era.
Yeah, yeah, we know about the Bush tyranny, but why must the MSM press keep LYING about the SPYING?
Bush's Wiretapping Began BEFORE 9/11!! and the New York Times Admits Bush Administration Spying Began in December of 2000... BEFORE TAKING OFFICE!
Then it is NOT about "terrorists" and it NEVER WAS; it is about TYRANNICAL CONTROL over the American people!!!!
But the American people just sit back and take it!
Supporters say the measures simply codify existing counterterrorism practices and policies that are endorsed by lawmakers and independent specialists such as the 9/11 Commission. They say the measures preserve civil liberties and are subject to internal oversight.
Oh, well, that all makes me feel a whole pile safer.
Go back to dining on your bowl of shit, 'murkns!
White House spokesman Tony Fratto said the administration agrees it needs to do everything possible to prevent unwarranted encroachments on civil liberties, adding that it succeeds the overwhelming majority of the time.
Homeland security adviser Kenneth Wainstein said, "This is a continuum that started back on 9/11 to reform law enforcement and the intelligence community to focus on the terrorism threat."
Lies, lies, lies, lies!!!!!!!!!
And look, another Zionist or dual national at homeland "security."
Or ANYTHING ELSE, for that matter!!!!
