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Change.gov: Database Danger or Digital Delight
"“Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.” – Aldous Huxley Depending on your personal level of concern with online privacy, the Obama/Biden website... 
EFF Challenges Constitutionality of Telecom Immunity in Federal Court
The Electronic Frontier Foundation, public interest advocacy org for rights in the digital age, has filed a brief in Federal Court challenging the Constitutionality of the telecom immunity bill. EFF is arguing there is no Constitutional authority for giving authority to... 
GET POLITICAL with VIC LIVINGSTON (Opinion) - McCain Strikes Offshore Gold as...
• Barack was right about checking the tires. So why is he springing a leak?• Because he'd rather compromise than stand up and fight. As the presidential race enters the critical...
GET POLITICAL with VIC LIVINGSTON (Opinion) 'Obama Audacity Tour' Wows 'Em Ab...
• Barack ignored key factor: voters at home decide elections on bread-and-butter issues -- not on bread and circuses• Europeans, their leaders, and media aren't 'deciders' Presumptuous and...
GET POLITICAL with VIC LIVINGSTON: Was Jesse's Cutting Blow Really Billary's...
Over at the Washington Post, the "Fixster" blogger is asking his usual Friday question: Who won the week? Here at nowpublic.com, the answer is sharp-edged: Hillary Rodham Clinton,...
OPINION: Is it time for a new group like the Weathermen to appear?
According to the Declaration of Independance: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are...
Left Suffers Stinging Defeat on FISA
"Again the Democrats fold like lawn chairs. How can they let George Bush beat and out smart them on every aspect of the war on terror? They have been trying to convince everyone that Bush is an evil dumb man, but...
Is it torture ...
to hold Sen John McCain's feet to the fire to see if he will back up his past claims that the U.S. should not torture? Or his claims that torture is ineffective?One Citizen's OpinionbyLee Dunkelberg
President... 
Supreme Court Skips 4th, Keeps Catch-22
"The U.S. Supreme Court last week declined to hear a case to stop President Bush’s domestic warrantless wiretapping, and let stand a 2-1 Appeals Court ruling that threw out the case on a technicality—a catch-22.x20 The ACLU brought the case on behalf of some journalists,...
The Truth About (Telecom) Immunity
Administration officials are complaining about House Democrats stalling legislation that would grant immunity to any telecommunications carrier that assisted with its domestic spying program. Without that immunity cloak, the White House says, telecoms will hesitate to...
created by CDT_Washington | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago
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Supreme Court Declines to Hear Wiretap Case
The Supreme Court today turned aside a legal challenge to the Administration's warrantless wiretaps, declining to review a lower court decision dismissing the case because the names of those being spied on are secret. "The Court's decision allows the government to avoid...
created by CDT_Washington | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago
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What About My Right to Privacy?
The U.S. Senate, on August 3, 2007, followed by the House of Representatives, on August 4, approved the expansion of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA).
A link to the FISA states:
The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978... 
created by Karen Hatter | 2 years ago | updated 1 year ago
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Rep. Burgess, surprise me! (not holding my breath)
An appeal to Rep. Michael Burgess (D-TX26th) - If someone breaks the law, you "tough on crime" types say, "Tough, should have known better".That is, unless it is one of your own. In that case, as has been show so many times in the Bush Regime, pardons, immunities, and...
Goodbye Wiretaps, FBI Forgets to Pay Phone Bills
It's a little harder to eavesdrop on a tapped phone line when it's been disconnected. It seems a few FBI slackers have been forgetting to pay their phone bills and losing wiretap lines as a result. Maybe they...
created by Jarrett Martineau | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago
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