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National Security Draft For Fining Tech Company "Noncompliance" On Wiretapping
Jeremiah Cornelius writes with what looks to be part of CISPA III: Children of CISPA. From the article: "A government task force is preparing legislation that would pressure companies such as Facebook and Google to enable law enforcement officials to intercept online communications as they occur. ... 'The importance to us is pretty clear,' says Andrew Weissmann, the FBI's general counsel. 'We don't have the ability to go to court and say, "We need a court order to effectuate the intercept." Other countries have that.' Under the draft proposal, a court could levy a series of escalating fines, starting at tens of thousands of dollars, on firms that fail to comply with wiretap orders, according to persons who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal deliberations. 'This proposal is a non-starter that would drive innovators overseas and cost American jobs,' said Greg Nojeim, a senior counsel at the Center for Democracy and Technology. 'They might as well call it the Cyber Insecurity and Anti-Employment Act.'"
He got healthcare reform through, and killed Bin Laden, and got us out of Iraq, but what else?
Republicans have him blocked, he can't close Gitmo because Republicans wrote it into law. He can't balance the budget because Republicans don't want military or medicare cut, and won't allow tax increases on rich people.
Now FBI feels confident enough to ask the Republican controlled legislature for laws to let them live warantless wiretap.
And military already got it's 'kill Americans' law, Obama says he won't use, but the Republicans didn't put it in place for him, it's for the next time they get a Republican into power.
Yeh, Obama sucks,