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------- Forwarded message follows ------- Date sent: Fri, 09 Jun 2000 15:59:51 -0400 To: politech@vorlon.mit.edu From: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com> Subject: FC: Senator seeks .sex; commission wants give more $$$ to the NSA Copies to: saftergood@igc.org Send reply to: declan@well.com
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Feds Urged to Beef Up Spying by Declan McCullagh (declan@wired.com)
10:50 a.m. Jun. 9, 2000 PDT WASHINGTON -- Congress must give federal police more eavesdropping abilities and increase the budgets of spy agencies, members of a federal commission are recommending.
The Justice Department is "overly cautious" when forwarding requests for wiretaps and electronic surveillance to a secret court established in 1978 for that purpose, Paul Bremer, the National Commission on Terrorism chairman, said Thursday.
Bremer also told the Senate Intelligence committee that technologies such as encryption and fiber optics are making it tough for the once-super-secret National Security Agency to eavesdrop on the world's communications -- and such surveillance is more vital than ever.
"How much more important a role the NSA can play in this field than when I left in 1989," said Bremer, who until 11 years ago was the U.S. ambassador-at-large for counter-terrorism.
Bremer's testimony was designed to summarize the group's recent recommendations, contained in an 80KB report, and deflect criticism of some of the more controversial suggestions such as using the military to respond to terrorist or suspected terrorist acts.
The commission has 11 members, including senior officials such as retired U.S. Army General Wayne Downing; John Lewis, a former assistant director of the FBI's national security division; and former CIA director James Woolsey. No civil libertarians or privacy advocates were included.
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Senator Seeks .Sex by Declan McCullagh (declan@wired.com)
3:00 a.m. Jun. 9, 2000 PDT Senator Joseph Lieberman wants to segregate Internet smut.
The Connecticut Democrat said Thursday that the U.S. government should consider alternative ways of shielding children from sexually explicit material, such as creating a new top-level domain such as ".sex" or ".xxx."
"This idea, which would in effect establish a virtual red-light district ... has a lot of merit, for rather than constricting the Net's open architecture it would capitalize on it to effectively shield children from pornography, and it would do so without encroaching on the rights of adults to have access to protected speech," Lieberman said at the third meeting of the federal Commission on Child Online Protection.
Lieberman stressed that he voted against the Communications Decency Act, which later was found to be unconstitutional, when it was a stand-alone bill, but neglected to mention that he voted for it when it was part of the larger Telecommunications Act of 1996.
Lieberman characterized his support for a sex-domain as a "suggestion" to the commission, which under federal law is tasked with making "making legislative recommendations to the Congress."
The idea of new domains has surfaced before, including during testimony before the Senate Commerce Committee, but persuading non-U.S. smutrepreneurs to make the switch might be a problem. Another hitch: Congress no longer has explicit authority over top-level domains after the Clinton administration ceded control to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers.
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