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*Scotty Starnes
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26, 2011 at 2:32 PM | Tags: Attorney
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The Obama regime is hell-bent on taking over the internet. From
net-neutrality to making it easier to wiretap the internet to creating
internet identification for all Americans, one can see this regime is out to
control every industry they can. We have seen that when the Obama regime
can't legislate, they turn to regulation to gain control.
This is the first time I've heard about the Obama Department of Justice, led
by political appointee, Attorney General Eric Holder, and their "internet
tracking plan." They want internet providers to 'retain data' on their users
for a 2 year period. Folks, we need to wake up and start holding these
usurpers accountable.
Declan McCullagh reports, via
CNet.com<http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-20029531-281.html>
:
Members of Congress chided the U.S. Department of Justice today for
suggesting *a new law requiring Internet companies to keep records of user
activity, but not disclosing details on how it should be crafted to aid
criminal investigations*.
At a House of Representatives
hearing<http://judiciary.house.gov/hearings/hear_01252011.html>,
as CNET was the first to
report<http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-20029423-281.html>,
*the Justice Department endorsed the concept of forcing Internet companies
to collect and store data about their customers that they would not normally
retain*. This
echoes<http://news.cnet.com/Gonzales-pressures-ISPs-on-data-retention/2100-1028_3-6077654.html>the
Bush administration's position under Attorney General Alberto
Gonzales.
It was wrong under Bush and it is equally wrong under Obama. The whole "Bush
did it" defense is old. Remember, Obama was elected on "change." I know, I
laughed when I typed that too.
But Jason Weinstein, deputy assistant attorney general for the criminal
division, irked the committee members by saying* "the government doesn't
have a specific proposal"* at this time.
"When are you going to get a specific proposal?" said Rep. John
Conyers<http://conyers.house.gov/>,
the senior Democrat on the House Judiciary committee. "How many years is
this going to take?" Apparently recalling that* mandatory data
retention *proposals
have been circulating since
2005<http://news.cnet.com/Your-ISP-as-Net-watchdog/2100-1028_3-5748649.html>,
Conyers added: "I'm going to call (attorney general) Eric Holder right after
this hearing and see if we can get this moving...I don't think we need a
whole lot of time."
Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz <http://wassermanschultz.house.gov/> (D-Fla.)
said *mandatory data retention would help law enforcement "connect the dots"
in criminal investigations*. "I'm really not understanding why you don't
have a specific proposal," she said.
So did Rep. Louie Gohmert <http://gohmert.house.gov/Biography/> (R-Tex.), a
former judge, who used the lack of specifics to question whether the Justice
Department really needed a new law. In court, Gohmert said, "if people don't
want to get specific, it's not legitimate testimony that will come into
evidence."
This is an odd situation: *when the Justice Department asks Congress for a
new law, it typically provides draft legislation, or at the very least, an
unequivocal endorsement*. In 2004, the department explicitly
endorsed<http://news.cnet.com/Justice-Dept.-wants-new-antipiracy-powers/2100-1028_3-5406654.html>a
pair of copyright bills backed by the entertainment industry. It did
not
equivocate when lending its support to a proposal to give life sentences to
certain hackers <http://news.cnet.com/2100-1001-944057.html> in 2002 or a 2007
proposal outlawing "attempted" copyright
infringement<http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-9719339-7.html>
.
Weinstein did say that the Justice Department was not interested in forcing
companies to retain "content information" such as the text of e-mail, text,
or SMS messages. He added, in response to questions, that up to two years of
data retention "would be a useful starting point," which
echoes<http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-9926803-38.html> what
FBI director Robert Mueller told Congress in 2008. (Ideally, to help law
enforcement the most, "I'd think the statute of limitations would be the
place to start the discussion" in terms of retention periods, he said.)
But he did not address the scope of the law, including whether *social
network sites and image-uploading sites would be required to record user
activities*--a proposal that
surfaced<http://news.cnet.com/Justice%20Department%20takes%20aim%20at%20image-sharing%20sites/2100-1028_3-6163679.html>inside
the department four years ago.
Once again, our Fourth Amendment rights are being trampled on by the
overreaching hand of the federal government.
Continue reading>>> <http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-20029531-281.html>
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