An active Homeland Security program codenamed “Einstein” will receive an upgrade from the help of the NSA. This “help” includes the implementation of technology to read through all of your email contents. Seriously.

It was an open secret that the National Security Agency was bolstering a Homeland Security program to detect and respond to cyber attacks on government systems, but a summary of that program declassified Tuesday provides more details of NSA’s role in a Homeland program known as Einstein.

The current version of the program is widely seen as providing meager protection against attack, but a new version being built will be more robust–largely because it’s rooted in NSA technology. The program is designed to look for indicators of cyber attacks by digging into all Internet communications, including the contents of emails, according to the declassified summary.

While the Obama Administration claims it will strip out all identifying information from the email communications, the plan also includes passing along data to the NSA.

This is pretty much a more extreme version of domestic spying than the program Democrats screamed their head off over during the Bush Administration. Look for them to defend this invasion of privacy now that it’s coming from a liberal president.