They've also recently appointed Admiral John Poindexter as the head of a new Office of Information Awareness at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, which is responsible for developing "new surveillance technologies." Specifically, a frighteningly far-reaching abolition of privacy rights has been proposed, called Total Information Awareness. It will provide intelligence and law enforcement officials instant access to information from email and calling records to credit card and banking transactions and travel documents, without a search warrant.
I'm not particularly libertarian -- stoplight cameras don't bother me, I generally figure if you're not doing anything wrong, you have nothing to worry about, etc. But I find the appointment of a publicly disgraced official to such a sensitive post as this rather unsettling. (Poindexter was convicted in 1990 for instructing Reagan to lie about the Iran-Contra affair.)
Clearly, the Bush administration is not concerned about impropriety.