"Republicans and Democrats in Congress reached a breakthrough compromise yesterday on a bill that would dramatically revamp the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). Most significantly, the draft legislation...
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With paranoid uncontrolled Western governments willfully spying on their own citizens in violation of their constitutional rights, it is timely that companies like GNU will soon be deploying free, easily accessible...
That seems to be the DOJ position. Where is the NYTimes on this? Why aren't they writing more about it?"Ever since the President's illegal warrantless eavesdropping program was revealed by the New York Times'...
No matter the opinion on the subject, I think it is important for this subject to be brought before the courts. Just a blurb in the news today, but very important to our constitutional rights."WASHINGTON - In federal courts and on Capitol Hill, challenges are brewing to a key...
"Spectators lined up outside the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco starting at noon to guarantee a seat at a much-anticipated legal showdown over the government's secret wiretapping program.Jon_eisenberg
The hearing involves two cases: one aimed at AT&T for...
"The Bush administration said Monday the constitutionality of its warrantless electronic eavesdropping program cannot be challenged.
The government is taking that position in seeking the dismissal of federal court...
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"A new law expanding the government's spying powers gives the Bush Administration a six-month window to install possibly permanent back doors in the nation's communication networks. The legislation was passed hurriedly by Congress over the weekend and signed into law Sunday...
"Analysis: New Law Gives Government Six Months to Turn Internet and Phone Systems into Permanent Spying Architecture
Wired | August 6, 2007
Ryan Singel
A new law expanding the government's spying powers gives the...
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"As Newsweek reports in its August 13 issue, the FBI has used a secret warrant to raid the home of former Justice Department lawyer Thomas M. Tamm, taking three computers and personal files.The government is searching for the individual who leaked information about President...
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"Federal officials claim its contents are so sensitive to national security that it is stored in a bombproof safe in Washington and viewed only by prosecutors with top secret security clearances and a few select federal judges.
The Document, described by those who have seen...
It's amature hour for the Obama team, all of a sudden he has cojones. A guy who has never even ran a lemonade stand. "Obama promises that, as president, he will do it all -- visit on an unconditional basis with five...
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Perhaps a perjury investigation will get to the heart of the obfuscations and explore the extent of Prgram X - a surveillance program the American public was never supposed to know about."Alberto Gonzales' testimony that there was "no serious disagreement" within the Bush...
A sharply divided court in Cincinnati has decided that you can't sue the Federal Government for spying on you because you can never be sure that they are spying on you. To know such information is a state...
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"A former member of U.S. military intelligence has decided to reveal what she knows about warrantless spying on Americans and about the fixing of intelligence in the leadup to the invasion of Iraq."
"By a large margin, Americans feel the Bush administration has tipped the balance of security against liberty too far towards security, a new UPI/Zogby polls shows.
But the public remains closely divided on the...
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