Analysis: Google Case Raises New Questions of Presidential Authority

[kpete]

Associated Press
Analysis: Google Case Raises New Questions
By TOM RAUM , 01.20.2006, 05:10 PM

Already on the defensive about its domestic spying program, the Bush administration has alarmed privacy and free-speech advocates by demanding search information from millions of users of Google and other Internet companies.

The moves raise questions about how far the government should be allowed to go to probe into American homes. The administration is pushing back hard, defending its surveillance as helping to protect the nation from terrorism and, to a lesser extent, shield minors from pornography.

Critics see the moves as an unwarranted expansion of presidential authority.

http://www.forbes.com/technology/ebusiness/feeds/ap/2006/01/20/ap2465446.html

[babylonsister]

1. Once journalists are hit where it hurts and find out they've been

spied on, the tide will change, I'm thinking. We just need to get to the point where those facts will be released.

[patdem]

2. So not only are the Dems upset because of personal privacy and

civil rights, but now all those republican pedophiles will be upset too! http://www.armchairsubversive.com/