The sweet smell of ethics in action, as Moron-in-chief puts a lying felon in charge of your privacy... a man who's already shown he doesn't give a sh*t about individual rights and thinks it's fine to do what you like if you're in government.
theregister.co.uk
nytimes.com
Historically, military and intelligence agencies have not been permitted to spy on Americans without extraordinary legal authorization. But Admiral Poindexter, the former national security adviser in the Reagan administration, has argued that the government needs broad new powers to process, store and mine billions of minute details of electronic life in the United States.
Poindexter was "Indicted March 16, 1988, on seven felony charges. After standing trial on five charges, Poindexter was found guilty April 7, 1990, on all counts: conspiracy (obstruction of inquiries and proceedings, false statements, falsification, destruction and removal of documents); two counts of obstruction of Congress and two counts of false statements.
So, just the man to be protecting the people of the US. he's just soooo trustworthy.
Feel happy about your watchers... remember, Big Brother is your friend. You don't mind having everything you do scrutinised by faceless bureaucrats, do you?
A spokesman for the White House Office of Homeland Security, Gordon Johndroe, said officials in the office were not familiar with the computer project and he declined to discuss concerns raised by the project's critics without knowing more about it.
He referred all questions to the Defense Department, where officials said they could not address civil liberties concerns because they too were not familiar enough with the project.
I'm sure the information will never be misused. Nor compromised.
And no future government will ever do anything bad with it, either. |
