A bill allowing warrantless wiretapping of the internet on American citizens was introduced by those freedom-loving democrats that hated the brown shirtedness of Bush’s Patriot Act. Also, they can shut the internet down anytime they feel like declaring an emergency.
The Cybersecurity Act of 2009 – introduced by Senate Intelligence Committee chairman Jay Rockefeller, D-WV, and cosponsor Olympia Snowe, R-ME – bypasses all existing privacy laws and allows White House political operatives to tap into any online communication without a warrant, including banking, medical, and business records and personal e-mail conversations. This amounts to warrantless wiretaps on steroids, directed at U.S. citizens instead of foreign terrorists.
The bill gives the Secretary of Commerce and a new national cybersecurity czar power to shut down all Internet transmissions in the event of a yet-to-be defined “cyber emergency.”
Not So Fast 