While we spin our wheels and kick up mud on the campaign trail, McConnell wants more spying on us

[havocmom]

The dust up between super supporters of Clinton and Obama is diverting enough attention, evidently.

Meanwhile, back in the shadow government...

http://rawstory.com/news/2007/US_drafting_plan_to_allow_government_0114.html

National Intelligence Director Mike McConnell is drawing up plans for cyberspace spying that would make the current debate on warrantless wiretaps look like a "walk in the park," according to an interview published in the New Yorker's print edition today.

Debate on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act “will be a walk in the park compared to this,” McConnell said. “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.”

The article, which profiles the 65-year-old former admiral appointed by President George W. Bush in January 2007 to oversee all of America's intelligence agencies, was not published on the New Yorker's Web site. (It can be read here in pdf).

Personally, I really think most of the spying on Americans is more about getting marketing info to the corporations that really run things AND seeing how it is we manage to get some real news in spite of the corporate strangle hold on media.

But what ever the reasons, it is the death of freedom. There is none when we are not safe from their INTELL gathering which goes way beyond what is required for good police work, and that is what any REAL war on terror really boils down to.

[havocmom]

1. Kick for the night shift, in hopes that somebody out there cares about our civil rights

and the steamroller cheney sends to flatten us.