The Raw Story | US drafting plan to allow government access to any email or Web searchNational Intelligence Director Mike McConnell is developing new policies for Internet intelligence gathering. It looks like the changes may be very broad and deep. I worry that this kind of change often has significant impacts on civil liberties while providing minimal improvements to our security.Bad guys have any number of ways of protecting their communications and activities. It is the innocent Internet user that will be caught in this bigger and tighter net. 

- Lance Cottrell