1) In the event of a true national emergency the President would order action to be taken without a law in place. Ex: Posse Commitatus, the military can not be

1) In the event of a true national emergency the President would order action to be taken without a law in place. Ex: Posse Commitatus, the military can not be used for policing but past Presidents have regularly violated this law. If the cause is mildly just enough, the resources will not be invested to punish them. 2) There has been ZERO concrete examples given of situations that would necessitate use of this new power and why. The Patriot Act was a response to terrorism yet has been used exclusively to investigate money laundering for organized crime. Because this is also a law against an unspecific fear and not against a highly specified vulnerability, what this law will actually be used for is anyone's guess and, like the patriot act, its true use will be invented much later. 3) This IS the authoritarian Great Firewall. Giving the president the power to kill parts of the internet is the SAME THING as allowing executive branch agencies to arbitrarily filter specific content. 4) Coercing ISPs to install traffic-control gateways controlled by the executive branch is the legitimization of domestic spying. 5) It's an unnecessary expansion of the department of Homeland Security to include a cyberwarfare branch. The Department of Homeland Security is quite possibly the most wasteful branch of our government. Homeland Security contracts have been some of the worst of the worst of pork-barrel spending. 6) Lieberman is a tool.