Bruce Schneier writes about NSA's Domestic Spying "This article from The Wall Street Journal outlines how the NSA is increasingly engaging in domestic surveillance, data collection, and data mining. The result is essentially the same as Total Information Awareness."
He quotes Barry Steinhardt of the ACLU: "I mean, when we warn about a "surveillance society," this is what we're talking about."
Executive Order 12333 signed by Reagan says "Collection within the United States of foreign intelligence not otherwise obtainable shall be undertaken by the FBI or, when significant foreign intelligence is sought, by other authorized agencies of the Intelligence Community, provided that no foreign intelligence collection by such agencies may be undertaken for the purpose of acquiring information concerning the domestic activities of United States persons."
As far as I know that's still governing. Perhaps this is yet another law Bush is violating. Oh I forget, the current administration believes that the President cant violate an executive order. Since he can issue new ones, if his actions, um, are not in line with an existing order, it's just as if he issued a new one changing the rules. Really.
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