This is a pretty major step. The wording of this new citizen-spying program says that anyone who could be “a threat to national security” can be tagged and tracked- and this is outside of the definition of the usual “potential terrorist” label.
Again: Done Outside of Congressional approval.
If something like this needed to be done, why would it be done in private?
The latest Big Brother police state measure emanating from the Bush administration, with virtually no press coverage, is NSPD 59 (HSPD 24) entitled Biometrics for Identification and Screening to Enhance National Security [Complete text of NSPD 59 (HSPD 24) in Annex below] NSPD is directed against US citizens. It is adopted without public debate or Congressional approval. Its relevant procedures have far-reaching implications. NSPD 59 goes far beyond the issue of biometric identification, it recommends the collection and storage of “associated biographic” information, meaning information on the private lives of US citizens, in minute detail, all of which will be “accomplished within the law”: “The contextual data that accompanies biometric data includes information on date and place of birth, citizenship, current address and address history, current employment and employment history, current phone numbers and phone number history, use of government services and tax filings. Other contextual data may include bank account and credit card histories, plus criminal database records on a local, state and federal level. The database also could include legal judgments or other public records documenting involvement in legal disputes, child custody records and marriage or divorce records.”(See Jerome Corsi, June 2008)
