President Obama is outdoing President Bush. As a Senator, he voted for Patriot Act II and pardoned telecom executives for illegal wiretapping. He said that he didn't feel good about the latter at the time and suggested that the problems with the wiretapping bill could be taken care of later.

President Obama has now stepped up to the plate and addressed wiretapping. He decided to expand wiretapping beyond the scope of anything Bush had tried to get away with. This has Kieth Olberman upset. It isn't the change that he had hoped for.

"Obama Moves To Legalize Warrantless Wiretapping!"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jSUHVUgJFc

Last week, the Wall Street Journal wrote an editorial about the need for cyber security making claims that Russian and Chinese derived bugs were now in our power grid and could be activated at any time. Perhaps so but Mother Jones Magazine claims that the bill that just happens to be ready when the WSJ article was released also includes provisions that would give presidents great control over the internet..

"Should Obama Control the Internet?" A new bill would give the President emergency authority to halt web traffic and access private data.
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/...ntrol-internet