When President Bush enabled a network of surveillance designed to prevent terrorist attacks on our soil, the left went nuts. They cited this policy as one of the main reasons Bush had to go. The hatred for President Bush which these policies aroused at the left end of the political spectrum was enormous and continues to this day.
What also continues to this day are the same policies now being embraced by the left's beloved Obama.
The Obama administration will proceed with a Bush-era plan to use National Security Agency assistance in screening government computer traffic on private-sector networks, with AT&T as the likely test site, according to three current and former government officials.
President Obama said in May that government efforts to protect computer systems from attack would not involve "monitoring private-sector networks or Internet traffic," and Department of Homeland Security officials say the new program will scrutinize only data going to or from government systems.
But the program has provoked debate within DHS, the officials said, because of uncertainty about whether private data can be shielded from unauthorized scrutiny, how much of a role NSA should play and whether the agency's involvement in warrantless wiretapping during George W. Bush's presidency would draw controversy. Each time a private citizen visited a "dot-gov" Web site or sent an e-mail to a civilian government employee, that action would be screened for potential harm to the network.[Washington Post]
Listen carefully now, are those pre-screech wimpers I hear coming from the left?
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