Gonzales Changes Story On Reason For ISP's Data Retention

Just Friday we hear that ISP's were urged by Gonzales and Mueller to record information in the name of child porn. Now they say this..

(Cnet)In a radical departure from earlier statements, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales has said that requiring Internet service providers to save records of their customers' online activities is necessary in the fight against terrorism, CNET News.com has learned.

"We want this for terrorism," Gonzales said, according to one person familiar with the discussion.

Gonzales' earlier position had only emphasized how mandatory data retention would help thwart child exploitation.

So what will the reason be next week? What are some people saying about this?

"A monumental data trove is a crazy thing from a privacy perspective," said one person familiar with Friday's discussions. "It's crazy that the U.S. government is going to retain more data than the Chinese government does."

And then I read this, and let me say being one of their customers I now assume everything I do is Cc to the NSA!

Comcast said in a statement that "we fully share the attorney general's concern with the need to combat illegal use of the Internet for child pornography, terrorism and other illegal activities. We applaud the attorney general's initiative in convening an internal task force on this issue and look forward to continuing to cooperate with him and the FBI."

Remember when we found those secret documents that showed Saddam was spying on his citizens, and Americans were so appalled?

(CBS)One house in a Baghdad suburb was an electronic eavesdropping center in disguise with armies of spies manning tape recorders or riding around in a minivan parked outside -- listening to the residents on telephone intercepts.