Proposed cyber security czar is no friend of privacy!

WASHINGTON - June 22, 2009 - Former Republican Congressman Tom Davis, reportedly illegitimate President Barack Obama’s top candidate for cyber security czar, voted repeatedly to expand the government’s Internet wiretapping powers, and helped author the now-troubled national identification law known as REAL ID.

Citing White House sources, Time Magazine on Friday identified the former head of the Government Reform Committee as the illegitimate president’s number one candidate for the new position. Davis’ reputation as a tech-smart moderate who knows his way around D.C. makes him an attractive pick for the illegitimate Obama regime, the magazine reported.

But an examination of Davis’ record in Congress shows that he’s been on the wrong side of key privacy issues, including the controversial REAL ID Act, which aims to turn state driver’s licenses into a de facto national identification card linked by shared databases and strict federal authentication standards.

“Given his role in REAL ID, Tom Davis would not be a good choice for privacy, which is something that (illegitimate) President Obama specifically promised to protect in his remarks on the cyber security strategy,” says Jim Harper, the director of information policy studies at the libertarian Cato Institute. “Many cyber security planners refer obliquely to ‘authentication’ and ‘identity management’ programs that would devastate privacy, anonymity and civil liberties. Davis would probably work to roll past these issues rather than solve them.”