Where’s the Outrage Now?
The warrantless wiretapping of terrorists’ phone calls and Internet communications didn’t affect law abiding Americans at all, unless they were communicating with terrorists overseas, but this new policy could give Barack Obama unprecedented power that would affect all Americans and in a dramatic fashion. The Washington Examiner addresses the president’s possible vast new powers the rest of the media and ACLU won’t:
Civilian libertarians were apoplectic over former President George W. Bush’s “warrantless wiretap” program, which sought to monitor communications from terrorist networks overseas. So why are they not screaming bloody murder now that President Barack Obama appears slated to receive unprecedented power to monitor all Internet traffic without a warrant and to even shut the system down completely on the pretext of national security? The Cybersecurity Act of 2009 - introduced by Senate Intelligence Committee chairman Jay Rockefeller, D-WV, and cosponsor Olympia Snowe, R-ME - bypasses all existing