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Date: 2000-05-23

Ueberwachung durch die legislative Hintertuer


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Wenn die US-Gesetzgeber an Gesetze, die Drogenhändler
bekämpfen oder Derfraudanten an ihrem schädlichen Wirken
hindern sollen, merkwürdig dunkel formulierte Paragrafen
hängen - dann tun sie nur, was ihre Kollegen in Europa
ebenfalls gerade tun. Was die lauschgierigen Behörden an
gesetzlichen Ermächtigungen nicht auf dem direkten Weg
erreichen, das kriegen sie auf diese Weise zugeschanzt.

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THE uproar was fierce but quick last summer when an
internal Clinton administration document leaked out, revealing
yet again the administration's hostility to fundamental
liberties. The idea was to give law enforcement the authority
to secretly break into people's homes and businesses to
conduct searches, including discovering what was on
computer hard disks or even plant rogue programs on the
machines to record keystrokes or transmit data to the
government.
...
Like burglars in the dead of night, they've quietly attached the
proposal to several pieces of legislation, including an utterly
unrelated bankruptcy reform act. Like masters of deception,
they've hidden it in language that no lay person could
possibly unravel.

``We've never had a hearing on these provisions,'' says U.S.
Rep. Bob Barr, R-Ga., a vocal opponent of what are being
called the ``secret search'' portions of the legislation.
``They're very, very substantive, and they're being snuck into
legislation without a chance to have light shed on them.''

It's happened before. In 1998, Congress passed a law that
included a provision greatly expanding law enforcement's
wiretapping authority -- a provision that lawmakers had
explicitly rejected when it stood on its own.
...
That obscure language, according to experts who've studied
it, would dramatically expand the government's authority to
conduct what are called ``sneak and peek'' searches.

The government ``could enter your house, apartment or office
with a search warrant when you are away, conduct a search,
seize or copy things such as your computer hard drive and
not tell you until months later,'' the American Civil Liberties
Union and National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers
recently wrote in a letter to members of Congress.
...
The bankruptcy bill's offensive provisions, passed by the
Senate with no debate, appear to be identical to language in
the ``Methamphetamine Anti-Proliferation Act'' (HR 2987), an
anti-drug bill designed to go after people who operate
laboratories that manufacture speed.
...
In a triumph of vagueness, the bills would ban direct or
indirect advertising of drug paraphernalia and illegal drugs.
You wouldn't be allowed even to post mere hyperlinks to
sites containing information the government didn't like.
...
In the anti-drug bill, Internet service providers would be
required to remove allegedly offending materials at
government request. Forget due process, and who cares
about that pesky First Amendment, anyway?
...
Since the bankruptcy bill is in conference committee, it's
fairly close to final passage. Call your U.S. representative
and senators and demand that they call on the conferees to
leave the Bill of Rights alone.

The Senate has already passed the methamphetamine bill.
The House Judiciary Committee is scheduled to look closely
at it on Wednesday, says Barr, who intends to try to strip out
the big-brotherish language.
....

Full Text
http://www.mercurycenter.com/svtech/columns/gillmor/docs/dg052300.htm
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published on: 2000-05-23
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