Bush Wants Right to ISP Customer Data

bryan8m writes "Wired is reporting that the Bush administration wants back the ability to make ISPs turn over information on their customers. The U.S. Court of Appeals is handling the case and of course the feds want to hide details of it from the public. The law giving the government the power to seize communications records from 1986 was strengthened in 2001 by the Patriot Act and struck down after the ACLU challenged it."

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Which way to go?

[Walkingshark]

As Bush continues to ignore the constitution in favor of increasing his own executive power, in his ever bolder attempts to convert the executive manager position of President into a neo-kingship, he will find that more and more people see through his ploy and begin to unite against him. It will finally be when his hubris blinds him to the true source of his power and he attempts to wield his power over a signifigant subset of the wealthy that he will find himself and his tribe of neoconservatives on a long trip down a short pier. The surest way to destroy an empire is to remove its head before succession has been settled. Impeachment of DeLay and continued defeats of Frist politically will create a struggle for succession that could tear apart the fiscal conservative-social conservative coalition that has brought Red shirts to power. The key to long term success is to demand a new movement to unprecedented levels of open government and government oversight. Removing the back room deal aspect of politicing can prevent things like Bush spying on your web browsing from ever being an issue.