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Bush signs directive to monitor internet
Crazy Horse:
Oh my goodness..................more spying....
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x2773531
--- Quote ---flashl (1000+ posts) Sun Jan-27-08 11:57 AM
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Bush signs directive to monitor internet
Bush Order Expands Network Monitoring
President Bush signed a directive this month that expands the intelligence community's role in monitoring Internet traffic to protect against a rising number of attacks on federal agencies' computer systems.
The classified joint directive, signed Jan. 8 and called the National Security Presidential Directive 54/Homeland Security Presidential Directive 23, has not been previously disclosed. Plans to expand the NSA's role in cyber-security were reported in the Baltimore Sun in September.
The directive, whose content is classified, authorizes the intelligence agencies, in particular the National Security Agency, to monitor the computer networks of all federal agencies -- including ones they have not previously monitored.
Until now, the government's efforts to protect itself from cyber-attacks -- which run the gamut from hackers to organized crime to foreign governments trying to steal sensitive data -- have been piecemeal. Under the new initiative, a task force headed by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) will coordinate efforts to identify the source of cyber-attacks against government computer systems. As part of that effort, the Department of Homeland Security will work to protect the systems and the Pentagon will devise strategies for counterattacks against the intruders.
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The NSA has particular expertise in monitoring a vast, complex array of communications systems -- traditionally overseas. The prospect of aiming that power at domestic networks is raising concerns, just as the NSA's role in the government's warrantless domestic-surveillance program has been controversial.
Washington Post
How long has the Internet been around? And, 'we' just noticed cyber-attacks?
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Do they even read what they post.............or is it just they see Bush/monitor/internet??
--- Quote ---Evergreen Emerald (1000+ posts) Sun Jan-27-08 11:58 AM
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1. BUSH SUCKS
pfffffffftttt.
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--- Quote ---Sannum (1000+ posts) Sun Jan-27-08 12:00 PM
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2. Hi George!
If you are reading this, I just want to say...
GO **** YOURSELF!!!!!!!!!!!
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--- Quote ---msongs (1000+ posts) Sun Jan-27-08 12:00 PM
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3. why shouldnt he? NOBODY in congress is going to stop him doing anything nt
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--- Quote ---bambino (1000+ posts) Sun Jan-27-08 12:47 PM
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17. 'they' already monitor the internet
so Bush is coming clean?
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Well I guess they don't read.
--- Quote ---SalmonChantedEvening (1000+ posts) Sun Jan-27-08 12:08 PM
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7. Hey Chimpy? Read This.
You are the worst President this country has ever known, and you are the worst Person to ever occupy the office.
Just so we're clear on things.
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--- Quote ---thunder rising (992 posts) Sun Jan-27-08 12:09 PM
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8. The NSA is a traitor organization now functioning to protect the biggest threat to the US .. BUSH
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The stupid has got to hurt with these folks.
--- Quote ---thunder rising (992 posts) Sun Jan-27-08 12:10 PM
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9. I don't know if they even take an oath .. but it sure as hell is to protect Blackwater, Cheney, Bush
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--- Quote --- SpiralHawk (1000+ posts) Sun Jan-27-08 12:14 PM
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11. "All your thoughts are belong to us." - Big BushCo republicon homelander fascists
Edited on Sun Jan-27-08 12:15 PM by SpiralHawk
Big BushCo loves you
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--- Quote ---alphafemale (1000+ posts) Sun Jan-27-08 12:18 PM
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13. Just like the Nazis before them that got bogged down by tedious shit.
So shall the new overlords.
I can barely stay ahead of the crap in my own junkmail box.
You want to monitor the entire internet ****ers...?
Well here you go. Swallow hard assholes
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--- Quote ---Warren Stupidity (1000+ posts) Sun Jan-27-08 02:10 PM
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20. They have themselves a rather huge data processing capacity.
And they are not interested so much in the content of your email etc. as in who you talk to.
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--- Quote ---IsItJustMe (1000+ posts) Sun Jan-27-08 12:31 PM
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15. Read my lips GW, "Your policies are severley screwing this country up, just stop, please."
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--- Quote ---rzemanfl (1000+ posts) Sun Jan-27-08 12:45 PM
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16. Hey! Agent Mike, lots of overtime pay in your future. n/t
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Now that was funny.......
--- Quote ---angrycarpenter (580 posts) Sun Jan-27-08 12:52 PM
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18. If gore had been president
this would have already been done. But it would not be a shadow attempt to spy on the entire internet.Ha! this just shows that they have no idea the resources that would take. Especially when every stupid remark made by a basement dweller is to be looked at and investigated. They have no idea what they are getting into.
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--- Quote ---Warren Stupidity (1000+ posts) Sun Jan-27-08 02:08 PM
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19. Bringing the NSA inside the borders to snarf the domestic internets
is what this is about. Just another nail in the coffin.
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Yes another nail in the coffin to those who wish to cyber attack governmental assets.
Reading comprehension seems to be a problem among the primitives
TheSarge:
Let's see the Pentagon has to fend off thousands of cyber attacks and attempts to hack it's e-mail and data bases DAILY...we know that al-Qaeda and other terrorist networks use internet chatrooms to plot future ops...yet these self important pricks can only come up with some CT crap that this kind of bill is all about them?
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Lord Undies:
Let me see if I read it correctly and comprehend what it said:
The new measure takes what is already happening to protect our government computers and makes it more efficient and preventive. It is a plan to help our nation better deal in the future with our enemies. This has nothing to do with basement dwelling moonbats who want to post "I hate B*sh" on DemocratUnderground.com. We, as Americans, should be praising these innovations.
This has been a test.
TheSarge:
--- Quote from: Lord Undies on January 27, 2008, 02:52:27 PM ---Let me see if I read it correctly and comprehend what it said:
The new measure takes what is already happening to protect our government computers and makes it more efficient and preventive. It is a plan to help our nation better deal in the future with our enemies. This has nothing to do with basement dwelling moonbats who want to post "I hate B*sh" on DemocratUnderground.com. We, as Americans, should be praising these innovations.
This has been a test.
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Ding Ding Ding...we have teh winnah! :cheersmate:
Chris_:
Just another thread that illustrates in glaring detail all the free speech rights they've lost since Bush became president and had Blackwater blow up the twin towers so he could be king for life.
Cindie
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