Monday, June 23, 2008

FRA PREPARED FOR WIRETAPPING A YEAR IN ADVANCE

Apparently, the Swedish government had no qualms about needing legal approval for its privacy-violating spy program. The daily newspaper Aftonbladet reports that...

Already last year [the FRA] purchased a new super computer that is capable of processing the enormous volume of information that will be coming in to the agency.

In other words, the government would have started its eavesdropping program regardless of whether they got the legal authorization for it or not. The parliament's approval was a side issue.

This only goes to show what blatant disrespect prime minister Reinfeldt and his cabinet has for the law of the land - and for the people's elected representatives.

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