Originally Posted by escog

Forgive me if my reading comprehension skills are lacking, but I got the sense from the linked article that Chertoff's concern was actually about homegrown terrorists. He was noting that disaffected people in-country could become radicalized and was allocating more resources to monitor that problem. He pointed out that training could take place over the internet as an example of how homegrown terrorists could be trained. His point seemed to be that terrorists don't have to be foreigners coming into this country - they could become radicalized and trained online. And, therefore, we need to devote more resources to the problem of homegrown terrorists.

I did not read anything in that particular article that suggested that Chertoff wanted to restrict Internet usage.