Joe Lieberman Sponsors Presidential Internet "Kill Switch", tells Americans "Relax"

The fascist co-creator of the Department of Homeland Security which rewrote the US Constitution June 18, 2000. Napolitano: Internet Monitoring Needed to Fight Homegrown Terrorism. Fighting homegrown terrorism by monitoring Internet communications is a civil liberties trade-off the U.S. government must make to beef up national security, the nation's homeland security chief said Friday.

As terrorists increasingly recruit U.S. citizens, the government needs to constantly balance Americans' civil rights and privacy with the need to keep people safe, said Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano.

But finding that balance has become more complex as homegrown terrorists have used the Internet to reach out to extremists abroad for inspiration and training. Those contacts have spurred a recent rash of U.S.-based terror plots and incidents.

"The First Amendment protects radical opinions, but we need the legal tools to do things like monitor the recruitment of terrorists via the Internet," Napolitano told a gathering of the American Constitution Society for Law and Policy.

Napolitano's comments suggest an effort by the Obama administration to reach out to its more liberal, Democratic constituencies to assuage fears that terrorist worries will lead to the erosion of civil rights.
The administration has faced a number of civil liberties and privacy challenges in recent months as it has tried to increase airport security by adding full-body scanners, or track suspected terrorists traveling into the United States from other countries.

"Her speech is sign of the maturing of the administration on this issue," said Stewart Baker, former undersecretary for policy with the Department of Homeland Security. "They now appreciate the risks and the trade-offs much more clearly than when they first arrived, and to their credit, they've adjusted their preconceptions."

Underscoring her comments are a number of recent terror attacks over the past year where legal U.S. residents such as Times Square bombing suspect Faisal Shahzad and accused Fort Hood, Texas, shooter Maj. Nidal Hasan, are believed to have been inspired by the Internet postings of violent Islamic extremists.

And the fact that these are U.S. citizens or legal residents raises many legal and constitutional questions.

Napolitano said it is wrong to believe that if security is embraced, liberty is sacrificed.

She added, "We can significantly advance security without having a deleterious impact on individual rights in most instances. At the same time, there are situations where trade-offs are inevitable."

As an example, she noted the struggle to use full-body scanners at airports caused worries that they would invade people's privacy.

The scanners are useful in identifying explosives or other nonmetal weapons that ordinary metal-detectors might miss -- such as the explosives that authorities said were successfully brought on board the Detroit-bound airliner on Christmas Day by Nigerian Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab. He is accused of trying to detonate a bomb hidden in his underwear, but the explosives failed, and only burned Abdulmutallab.

U.S. officials, said Napolitano, have worked to institute a number of restrictions on the scanners' use in order to minimize that. The scans cannot be saved or stored on the machines by the operator, and Transportation Security Agency workers can't have phones or cameras that could capture the scan when near the machine.

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[ChildOfAnunnaki]

All you guys screaming that your government is going to take over your lives is such a typical response... geez stop living in the past like screaming political hippies and wake up!!! ... the threat from these hackers is real.... You will notice one day when you wake up one morning and you can't boil a kettle to make a coffee or make it to work in your car because a hacker group just crippled your power grid and potentially killing people as a result....wake up guys!!!!!!!

[IranContraScumDid911]

@ChildOfAnunnaki The hackers are fake and work for Joe Lieberman and Michael Chertoff. Enough idiots believing the hackers are real and they can make billions in taxpayer cash 'keeping you safe'. The more money they can make, the less safe you will be. We have already seen this scam with 9/11 and Al-Qaeda. Both Anon and Lulz Sec are one group that both work for the CIA. "The next pearl harbor" leon Panetta called it.

[lumeriam]

THIS IS OUR INTERNET AND IT DOESN'T BELONG TO THE GOVERNMENT!

[TOAFN]

Lieberman, Move to a fascist state. where you belong.

[drewsick]

Clown

[professorfoxtrot]

@ChildOfAnunnaki If a bank is being "attacked" it can shut down its own damn server. There's no reason why the federal government has any need to have power or domain over this as if they could somehow step in and do it more effectively than the individual businesses affected. Fox news also has a kill switch. It's called cutting off guests who speak the truth, we don't need that incorporated in the only true free medium in the world.

[jlg4880]

How do we get rid of these corrupt bastards?

[mxbuckey1]

lier lier lier you facist scum

[Clohan3]

You are such a globalish

[kjt1017]

"Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."

~ Benjamin Franklin

[BRm2008]

i hate jews in power. i like funny jews but i hate powerful jews

[BRm2008]

against one person who thinks they can just stop things. obama didnt think of this did he . he is meant to be against this type of fascist shit. democrat and all that??!!

[sLdGlD]

This is why I do not trust Jews as a whole. This asshole peddles misinformation everyday AND he is a pro Isreali before pro American, just like most Jews with an agenda. Plus they all support with money these groups that are totally fascist. Natenyahu, Sharon, both fascists. No diplomacy in them. Isreal is just an extension of the CIA/Federal Reserve groups.