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U.S. Spy Chief Wants Authority to Monitor All Internet Traffic

HeadlineJan 15, 2008

In news from Washington, the head of the nation’s spy agencies has revealed the government wants the authority to read all information crossing the internet in the United States, including personal email messages. The New Yorker magazine reports National Intelligence Director Mike McConnell is drafting a plan to rewrite the rules about online surveillance. He told the magazine the debate on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act will “be a walk in the park compared to this.”

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