We hope you're ready for this: in published
comments dating from October, 1997, when he was chairman
of the Senate Commerce Subcommittee on Consumer Affairs,
Foreign Commerce and Tourism, now Attorney General John
Ashcroft asked, " Why, then, should we grant government the
Orwellian capability to listen at will and in real time to
our communications across the Web?"
The article or speech was delivered as an attack on
Clinton administration efforts to obtain decryption keys to
high level encryption programs. In it the then-senator from
Missouri comes across as a vigorous defender of
constitutional rights now perhaps forever lost:
"The protections of the Fourth Amendment are
clear. The right to protection from unlawful searches is
an indivisible American value. Two hundred years of court
decisions have stood in defense of this fundamental
right. The state's interest in effective crime-fighting
should never vitiate the citizens' Bill of Rights."
The document makes for fascinating
reading. One could unkindly surmise that being defeated
in his bid for re-election by a dead man had unforeseeable
consequences on the gentleman's intellectual evolution, but
we prefer to withhold judgement until all the facts are in.
The speech, published by the U.S. government, is indeed
entitled "Keep Big Brother's Hands Off the Internet."
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