Bush picks tech lawyer for homeland security post

[Lori Price CLG]

Bush picks tech lawyer for homeland security post

President (sic) Bush said on Wednesday that he has chosen Stewart Baker, one of Washington's most influential technology lawyers, to be assistant secretary of homeland security for policy.

Baker's new job, which requires Senate confirmation, would place him in the prominent position of shaping policy on topics from data-mining to the department's planning for "what if" scenarios far off in the future. It also could include evaluating existing department functions for efficiency and creating a national strategy to prevent terrorists from entering the United States.

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Baker served as the general counsel of the National Security Agency (NSA) - the bane of many civil libertarians - during the early 1990s. At the time, the NSA was busy defending the Clipper Chip, intrusive export controls on encryption products, and "key escrow" rules that would encourage encryption backdoors for police convenience.

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Lori Price

[progressivebydesign]

1. Shit! I feel MUCh safer already!!! Bush cares NOTHING about us..

.. he is just a happy moron filling posts with his benefactors and partners in crime.

[democrat_patriot]

2. Why a tech lawyer?

Cause they're going after the internet, more intense searches of email etc.

Just my opinion of course.

[Tommymac]

3. Glad he will make the net safe for sites like this

:sarcasm:

[woodsprite]

4. They figure maybe he'll know what to do

with all that identity "data" that's gone "missing" from everywhere. If you figure the gov't has it, now they don't exactly know what to do with all of it. You know.... 400K credit card numbers and financial histories here, another 100K names and histories there....etc.