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Title: Attorney General Gonzales Calls For Law To Require Internet Companies To Preserve Customer Data
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Associated Press
URL Source: http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/ ... -internetrecords-gonzales.html
Published: Sep 19, 2006
Author: Associated Press
Post Date: 2006-09-19 15:15:56 by Brian S
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Views: 166
Comments: 12
WASHINGTON – Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said Tuesday that Congress should require Internet service providers to preserve customer records, asserting that prosecutors need them to fight child pornography. Testifying to a Senate panel, Gonzales acknowledged the concerns of some company executives who say legislation might be overly intrusive and encroach on customers' privacy rights. But he said the growing threat of child pornography over the Internet was too great. “This is a problem that requires federal legislation,” Gonzales told the Senate Banking Committee. “We need information. Information helps us makes cases.” He called the government's lack of access to customer data the biggest obstacle to deterring child porn. “We have to find a way for Internet service providers to retain information for a period of time so we can go back with a legal process to get them,” he said. Gonzales and FBI Director Robert Mueller have met with several Internet service providers, including Time Warner Inc.'s AOL, Comcast Corp., Google Inc., Microsoft Corp. and Verizon Communications Inc. The law enforcement officials have indicated to the companies they must retain customer records, possibly for two years. The companies have discussed strengthening their retention periods – which currently run the gamut from a few days to about a year – to help avoid legislation. At Tuesday's hearing, Gonzales said he agreed with the sentiment of 49 state attorneys general who in a June letter to Congress expressed support for a federal law that would require longer retention of customer records. “We respect civil liberties but we have to harmonize this so we can get more information,” he said. The subject has prompted some alarm among Internet service provider executives and civil liberties groups after the Justice Department took Google to court earlier this year to force it to turn over information on customer searches. Civil liberties groups also have sued Verizon and other telephone companies, alleging they are working with the government to provide information without search warrants on subscriber calling records. Justice Department officials have said that any proposal would not call for the content of communications to be preserved and would keep the information in the companies' hands. The data could be obtained by the government through a subpoena or other lawful process.
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#1. To: Brian S (#0)
Alberto should dig up the Franklin case if he wants to nail some real pervs.
I have a better idea for a law...revoke the citizenship of and deport all middle-aged anchor babies in the fedgov.
"First I'm gonna bother everybody I meet, and then I'll probably go home and get drunk."
Would someone PLEASE show this fascist asshole the way OUT???
#2. To: Brian S (#0)
#3. To: Brian S, all (#0)
Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said Tuesday that Congress should require Internet service providers to preserve customer records, asserting that prosecutors need them to fight child pornography.
***LEAP***
"I tell you, freedom and human rights in America are doomed. The U.S. Government will lead the American people, and the West in general, into an unbearable hell and choking life.
-- Osama bin Laden
"A prohibition law strikes at the very principles upon which our govt was founded."
- Lincoln
All our liberties are due to men who, when their conscience has compelled them, have broken the laws of the land.
--William K Clifford
#4. To: Brian S, Speedy Gonzalez via Pat Boone (#0)
Only in a Jorge Bush administration could this son of illegals rise to this level of power. He isn’t fit to vend tacos in Tijuana.
#5. To: Jethro Tull (#4)
I'm pretty sure Roberto Gonzalez is actually an illegitmate son of George Bush Sr. He looks just like George Jr. He sounds like George Jr. I'm positive, he's George's half brother. In fact, I'd like an independent investigation, from another country to do DNA testing on them. Why? Because if Roberto got the job of AG by virtue of nepotism, he could be removed from office on those grounds alone.
 | What's that Mr. Nipples? You want me to ask the nice lady about her rack?. |
#6. To: TommyTheMadArtist (#5)
Why not?
I'm pretty sure Roberto Gonzalez is actually an illegitmate son of George Bush Sr. He looks just like George Jr. He sounds like George Jr. I'm positive, he's George's half brother.
#7. To: TommyTheMadArtist (#5)
Who is the punk kid (the "little brown one") in the Bush family? Maybe you're on to something.
#8. To: lodwick (#6)
I liked Pat Boone's version better.
#9. To: Brian S (#0)
“We respect civil liberties but we have to harmonize this so we can get more information,” he said. "We respect civil liberties" from the guy who says electocuting someone isn't torture? Sorry for my skepticism, Al. And let's not pretend. You want to know what websites your political opponents are visiting so you can: A) decide who goes to the internment camps on the border as "enemy combatants" and B) dig for embarrassing shit you can blackmail congressmen with. F you, Al Gonzales, you POS.
At Tuesday's hearing, Gonzales said he agreed with the sentiment of 49 state attorneys general who in a June letter to Congress expressed support for a federal law that would require longer retention of customer records.
the law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal bread.
#10. To: Jethro Tull (#8)
WTF was that?
Dear God.
#11. To: bluedogtxn (#9)
Huge bumper
F you, Al Gonzales, you POS.
#12. To: Brian S (#0)
HOW CAN WE BELIEVE WAR-CRIMINAL CARES ABOUT PONOGRAPHY? IT ALL BS
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