Gonzales leans on ISPs


Straight out of a Mafia story. "Give us what we want or there will be trouble."

Well, we knew that something like this was in the works.

In a private meeting with industry representatives, Gonzales, Mueller and other senior members of the Justice Department said Internet service providers should retain subscriber information and network data for two years, according to two sources familiar with the discussion who spoke on condition of anonymity.

The closed-door meeting at the Justice Department, which Gonzales had requested, according to the sources, comes as the idea of legally mandated data retention has become popular on Capitol Hill and inside the Bush administration. Supporters of the idea say it will help prosecutions of child pornography because in many cases, logs are deleted during the routine course of business.

"For the children" is one of those phrases that is supposed to defuse any objections before they begin.

After all, how can you support child pornography?

But what they haven't told you is that they caught you in the either/or trap. You have bought into the fiction that there are two and only two sides and that they are mutually exclusive.

And none of this deals with the hidden agenda.

— NeoWayland

Posted: Tue - May 30, 2006 at 04:39 AM  Tag


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