An article in today’s Wall Street Journal will likely cause seizures at the ACLU and among Congressional Democrats.
The new Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell is drafting a plan to protect America’s cyberspace that will raise privacy issues and make the current debate over FISA and wiretapping look like a “walk in the park.”
“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.”
Just saying “goat rope” in reference to the new intelligence plan probably has Harry Reid and Chris Dodd breaking out into cold sweats.
At issue, McConnell acknowledges, is that in order to accomplish his plan, the government must have the ability to read all the information crossing the Internet in the United States in order to protect it from abuse. WHOAA!
This should be interesting.
-Chris Jones
