According to news reports, two Senate bills — S. 773 and S. 778 — “would grant the White House sweeping new powers to access private online data, regulate the cybersecurity industry and even shut down Internet traffic during a declared “‘cyber emergency.’”
Both are part of what’s being called the “Cybersecurity Act of 2009.”The act would create a new bureaucracy, the “Office of the National Cybersecurity Advisor,”which would be charged with “defending the country from cyber attack”... and would report directly to Barack Obama.
It would also grant the secretary of commerce access to all privately owned information networks deemed to be “critical” to the nation’s infrastructure, “without regard to any provision of law, regulation, rule or policy restricting such access.”
Did you read that? The secretary of commerce, reporting directly to Mr. Obama, would be able to snoop through anything connected to the Internet that a president decides is “critical” to look at.
And it doesn't matter what the law says — they get to do this whenever and wherever a president wants them to.
Talk about unconstitutional! We must not let Barack Obama’s cronies in Congress get away with this! Start by informing yourself, and others, about this issue. I'm sure those who voted for Mr. Obama did not expect or want this kind of “change.”
Marvin Jenkins
Madison
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