Despite the White House threatening to veto controversial cyber-security legislation CISPA if the House passes it this week, there are many observers who believe the bill will be signed into law.

The House of Representatives is expected to begin debate on a controversial piece of cyber-security legislation today. The White House has weighed in, promising to veto the bill in its current form, but there are plenty who doubt that will happen.

Introduced by Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Mich.) and Dutch Ruppersberger (D-Md.) in November, the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) defines a new framework that would allow companies and governments to share information collected online with one another in order to fight cyber-attacks. As PCMag reported earlier, The White House Office of Management and Budget criticized CISPA for departing "from longstanding efforts to treat the Internet and cyberspace as civilian spheres."

Many privacy watchers, including the American Civil Liberties Union, Electronic Frontier Foundation, and Center for Democracy and Technology, said the the broad language used in the CISPA could threaten people's privacy in unacceptable ways.

Despite vehement opposition by privacy groups, several members of Congress, and various tech luminaries, CISPA is expected to be passed by the House of Representatives by the end of the day Friday.

"The Obama administration opposes CISPA," Alec Ross, the senior innovation advisor to the Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, told The Guardian. Even though the president has called for comprehensive cyber-security legislation, the legislation needs "to come with necessary protections for individuals," Ross said.

Even though Ross stopped short of saying the president would veto the bill, the OMB did not hesitate. "Senior advisors would recommend that he [Obama] veto the bill," the OMB said in its statement.

Many observers were skeptical over the possibility of a presidential veto.

"Obama threatened to veto NDAA, too. How'd that turn out?" Kendall Clark, CEO of startup Clark Stardog.com, wrote on Twitter.

NDAA, or the National Defense Authorization Act, was passed by Congress late last year. Opponents criticized the bill for its provisions that would allow the government to indefinitely detain American citizens. In November, the White House said the bill spawned "serious and unsettled legal questions and would be inconsistent with the fundamental American principle that our military does not patrol our streets."

The White House statement claimed the President’s senior advisers would recommend a veto (the language sound familiar to anyone?) if the House passed NDAA. Instead, Obama signed NDAA into law less than two months later.

"Dear Obama: Your rhetoric on NDAA, Gitmo & Wall Street proved empty & false. We'll believe a #CISPA veto when we see it. Love, the Internet," wrote @YourAnonNews on Twitter.