Homeland Security Privacy Policy Investigation Sought

Washington Post:

Privacy advocates have asked lawmakers to investigate the Department of Homeland Security office in charge of protecting Americans' privacy, saying it has shown "an extraordinary disregard" for its duty.

In a letter sent Friday to the House Homeland Security Committee, 21 organizations and seven people belonging to the Privacy Coalition say the department's chief privacy officer has seen its role as enabling, rather than curbing, government surveillance and intelligence programs.

Read the whole story: Washington Post

Comments

[cruisepuppy7452a]

The entire intent of homeland security was to spy on the public, not to thwart terrorism. Let's be honest here. Bush and Cheney were hellbent on outting anyone whom they deemed to be against them, questioning them or thier agendas. Bildeburg, Tri lateral, and CFR did't come out and denounce it, rather they encouraged the abuse of the pubic and our civil rights. They want a nazi type regeme, and will do what it takes to get there. If that meant spying on the public, so be it. Unless the public has committed actual crimes, there is no justification for it. Its bogus. This is what net neutrality is about as well. They want to control the media to control what the public sees and hears, reads. Brainwashing is what it is, not anti terrorism. Sadly, too many americans are already brain washed by it. If you are going to attack homeland security, you have to first attack the white house for letting it continue. They know its bogus and wrong to spy on innocent people. They can put a stop to it asap. But they won't, as they too are crooks.

[rf dude]

Fatherland - taken already.

Motherland - oops, already taken, too.

Tomorrowland, Fantasyland, Disneyland, Graceland....

HOMELAND - nobody wanted THAT one, I guess...

[Rayme]

Even the Huffing ton post buries the most important articles. The one thing that would have told us that Obama was a president for the people and not the Elite, would have been for him to repeal the Patriot Act on day one. Now he wants more power, he clearly thinks that he belongs to the Elitist class, little does he know that he is disposable to them.

[KindOne]

Hmmm... aspiring media does not rock the boat on big media's big cover up. Who could have thunk it?

[myangeldog1]

This article should be front and center.

[tonysaprano]

Second that motion, Why is this article buried on the bottom ?

[KindOne]

Congress voted to give media immunity on this very issue and you are surprised media does not play it up?

You are supposed to be happy it made the news at all.

[kareemachan]

The moment I heard that they used the term "homeland" when creating this organization, the hairs on the back of my neck rose. The connotations of this word made and make it most repugnant to me, and I'm sure it was done purposefully.

[confidance government]

I have a bottle of 12-year old single malt scotch waiting for the day this department is defunded, shut down, and abolished.

[research]

Me too.

[myangeldog1]

Ditto

[Paulo1]

Well we did warn ya didn't we.

Now that the Office of Fatherland Security has been proven to be doing the illegal searching we warned against you Conservatives will just have to live with it.

I wonder who Obama (Who is in no hurry to do away with such a nifty toy as Homeland Security and the Patriot act) is investigating right now? Perhaps he is investigating how much ammunition you have squirreled away. Perhaps he is investigating how much money you gave to certain right wing organizations. Or perhaps he has someone out collecting web shots from the local dingbat TeaBagger meeting you were at. Or eavesdropping on that cell phone conversation where you called him a __________

Well, we'll never know now will we? National security and all that forbids us from asking. And when you disappear some cold wintry night.... well we can just remember fondly the days when you were preaching the need for an all powerful all seeing intrusive government agency and rest assured nothing bad happened to you.

Happy Halloween

[KindOne]

Bad things did happen to me.

[winningticket]

A bureaucracy like the Department of Homeland Security is Orwellian and unAmerican. They can also get rid of the rogue TSA.

[Bloggerrogr]

While they are at it, they can get rid of the Central Incompetence Agency. It is the modern equivalent of the brown shirts and has no place in America; unless, of course, we are now spelling it "Amerika"

FWIW

[confidance government]

Seconded.

time to stop overthrowing other countries just for kicks.

[blacksmithn]

Completely agree with the other posters about disbanding DHS.

Make sure the TSA goes with it. Seriously, does a $7/hr. security guard examining all of our shoes make us any safer?

[confidance government]

No but it provides jobs, d@mm!t !!!

[blacksmithn]

So does graffiti clean-up. And without inconveniencing millions of people a year.

[KindOne]

Not just shoes, under-wire bras.

[sueinmn]

Bush created this violation of privacy and Obama enables it to continue. We must protect our constitutional rights or see tham also watered down as they are presently. When the fine line of protecting this country and abusing our rights is crossed, its time to change it! Are we willing to continue to watch our rights stripped away? How far will they go? Already we have seen the "sound weapon" used against our own peaceful protests. How far will they go? Sure we have many homegorwn terrorists that need to be saught out but at what expense to us?

[KindOne]

Actually we don't have a lot of home grown terrorists, that is why Bush had to look so hard for them and found so little.

At what expense? Ask the people who have been the actual victims of his witch hunts, there are a LOT of those. (If I tell you what they did to ME, it won't get posted.)

[KindOne]

Actually we don't have a lot of home grown terrorists, that is why Bush had to look so hard for them and found so few.

At what expense?

Ask the people who have been the actual victims of the Bush witch hunts, there are a LOT of those.

[KindOne]

My answers to you do not get posted.

[deepfreezevideo]

All three commenters Medz, Bear and Solar fanned.
Great thoughts, I agree wholeheartedly.

[getoffmedz]

Simply get rid of redundant DHS and the completely odious Patriot Act.

Problem solved.

[confidance government]

The politicians will be very reluctant to hand over these powers the people stupid!y gave them.
Lesson, don't give the state an ounce of power before thinking it through very, very carefully.

[getoffmedz]

We didn't give, the Bush/Cheney administration took in a stampede of fear.

[beartrack]

This is the very first agency that should be disbanded. All the money that is wasted here would go a long way toward health care, education, anything. I would be willing to bet that the agencies that got gobbled up in this organizational disaster would like to go back to the way it was.

[solarian]

homeland security a joke the only thing they do is taking away my rights as a citizen . where is the constitution, bill of rights, due process. it is more like a dictator ship get rid of the patriot act and homeland security i want a major reset