Monday, January 24, 2011

Statist 'Net?

I'm automatically suspicious of anything from the pen of Lieberman, who is a Lefty of the first water.

A controversial bill handing President Obama power over privately owned computer systems during a "national cyberemergency," and prohibiting any review by the court system, will return this year.

Collins (RINO-Babe) co-sponsored. No comfort there, either.

Portions of the Lieberman-Collins bill, which was not uniformly well-received when it became public in June 2010, became even more restrictive when a Senate committee approved a modified version on December 15. The full Senate did not act on the measure.

The revised version includes new language saying that the federal government's designation of vital Internet or other computer systems "shall not be subject to judicial review." Another addition expanded the definition of critical infrastructure to include "provider of information technology," and a third authorized the submission of "classified" reports on security vulnerabilities.

Oh, goodie!!


1 comment:

Beer, Bicycles and the VRWC said...

"Not subject to judicial review" would be unconstitutional in and of itself, no? OTOH, this is "The Regime"