Eric Lictblau and James Risen of the New York Times on Broad Domestic Role Asked for C.I.A. and the Pentagon:
The Bush administration and leading Senate Republicans sought today to give the Central Intelligence Agency and the Pentagon far-reaching new powers to demand personal and financial records on people in the United States as part of foreign intelligence and terrorism operations, officials said.
The proposal, which was beaten back, would have given the C.I.A. and the military the authority to issue administrative subpoenas – known as “national security letters” – requiring Internet providers, credit card companies, libraries and a range of other organizations to produce materials like phone records, bank transactions and e-mail logs. That authority now rests largely with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the subpoenas do not require court approval.
Domestic surveillance of anyone at anytime, without court supervision? I can’t see why anyone would have a problem with that. Nope. Not a bit. Fucking fascists.
Link courtesy of Patrice McDermott via the In Defense of Freedom mailing list.