It's bad enough that the Pentagon is now demanding financial records from banks about their customers, but this part has even more potential for misuse:
Even when a case is closed, military officials said they generally maintain the records for years because they may be relevant to future intelligence inquiries. Officials at the Pentagon’s counterintelligence unit say they plan to incorporate those records into a database, called Portico, on intelligence leads.
And what does the Administration say about this story? Cheney, on Fox News Sunday today:
It's a perfectly legitimate activity. There's nothing wrong with it or illegal. It doesn't violate people's civil rights. And if an institution that receives one of these national security letters disagrees with it, they're free to go to court to try to stop its execution.So, sue if you don't like it.
Where are all the right-wing loonies who saw black helicopters and One-World Government during the Clinton Administration? Shouldn't they be up in arms about the federal government collecting private data about civilians?
Posted by Linkmeister at January 14, 2007 12:56 PM | TrackBackWhere are indeed those so afraid of the Government during the Clinton Years? I don't know how many times my wife and I have looked at this Misadministration's latest antics and said to each other: if Clinton had tried to pull this one or that one...
Posted by: Serge at January 15, 2007 01:29 AM