FRA WIRETAPPING STARTED ALREADY IN 2005

The daily Aftonbladet reports on more evidence that the FRA Act was approved way in advance by Prime Minister Reinfeldt and his cabinet.

The FRA has already built a secret division that will examine e-mails and phone calls. The recruitment [of staff] is handled by a company started by former special forces soldiers. Today Aftonbladet can publish documents that reveal that the [wiretapping] operations existed already before the FRA Act was passed into law by the Riksdag.

As we have reported, the FRA got its first super computer for this program already last year. Now they have 20 people working with eavesdropping on all Swedish citizens.

Sources with knowledge of the FRA's operations say that the agency started building this secret division in mid-2005.

During the socialist administration, in other words. The same socialists who so adamantly are against this law now. This is just another indication that the socialists have pulled a jackpot politically with this law: they do not have to take political responsibility for it, but they will get it and be able to use it as it pleases them.

People who speak Arabic, Persian and Albanian fluently have been trained to read and analyze e-mails and SMS.

Then the news article reveals the true scope of this wiretapping program:

It covers electronic communications that is being sent within Sweden as well as across the nation's borders.

In other words, critics who said this was going to be a Soviet-style blanket monitoring system to track all citizens were right from the get-go.

This entire story reinforces the fact that Prime Minister Reinfeldt is blatantly disrespectful of the rights and freedoms of Swedish citizens and residents. The same obviously goes for the socialists, who wrote the FRA Act and, we now know, started the program way before it was legal.

This raises concerns regarding the coming re-writing of Sweden's constitution. What infringements on people's rights and freedoms will that bring?