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27 Mar 2008, 10:56 am
On December 16 2005, the New York Times revealed the existence of the President's secret, warrantless wiretapping program, setting in motion an ongoing stream of revelations about more secret domestic surveillance and acrimonious political debates over whether to give amnesty to corporations that aided the program. [read post]
1 Oct 2018, 9:51 am by Cindy Cohn
We’ve forced the NSA to produce evidence to the judge about whether our plaintiffs were subjected to mass, warrantless surveillance. [read post]
1 Aug 2007, 6:22 am
The disclosure by Mike McConnell, the director of national intelligence, appears to be the first time that the administration has publicly acknowledged that Bush's order included undisclosed activities beyond the warrantless surveillance of e-mails and phone calls that Bush confirmed in December 2005. [read post]
11 Aug 2007, 10:42 pm
(And recall that that legal theory was presumably much more modest than those the Administration had relied upon from 2001 to 2007 to engage in warrantless surveillance.)What appears to have happened, in short, was that under its warrantless "Terrorist Surveillance Program" in place from 2001 to 2007, the NSA intercepted a lot of reportedly valuable communications involving terrorists. [read post]
12 Oct 2007, 1:35 pm
The 40 or so lawsuits challenging this warrantless surveillance are all being heard here in San Francisco. [read post]
16 Nov 2007, 10:30 am
See Also: Analysis: Some Secret Documents Are Too Secret Even for Critical Judges NSA Judge: 'I feel like I'm in Alice and Wonderland' Nation's Soul Is at Stake in NSA Surveillance Case Top Secret: We're Wiretapping You NSA Snooped on Lawyers Knowing Spying Was Illegal, Suit Charges Stage Set for Senate Immunity Showdown As House Passes Spy Bill ... [read post]
1 Mar 2013, 10:42 am by Benjamin Wittes
  NSA’s signals intelligence activities are largely conducted under Executive Order 12333 (“United States Intelligence Activities”) and the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 (“FISA”)—both of which have been amended over the years. [read post]
14 Jan 2008, 5:56 pm
District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan along with a host of scholars, journalists, attorneys, and other organizations whose work required them to communicate with individuals overseas thought to be likely targets of NSA surveillance. [read post]
7 Jun 2017, 3:00 pm
You would also think that they would demand that the NSA stop its warrantless spying on Americans and figure out how many Americans have been swept up in the agency’s dragnet. [read post]
22 Dec 2019, 5:17 pm by Howard Bashman
Mark Hosenball of Reuters has a report headlined “Warrant not always needed for ‘inadvertent’ NSA surveillance of Americans: U.S. court. [read post]
31 Dec 1969, 4:00 pm by bwittes
In a general-readership publication like The New York Times or ProPublica, we say the NSA’s “warrantless surveillance program” or “warrantless wiretapping program. [read post]
31 Jan 2024, 5:49 am by Senator Ron Wyden
The GSRA even permits nearly unfettered investigations into cyber attacks by allowing not only warrantless queries of the metadata that would reveal the sources of the attacks but also warrantless access to the malware being sent. [read post]
3 Jan 2014, 11:22 am by Hanni Fakhoury
Much of the debate over modern surveillance—including the NSA mass spying controversy—has centered around whether people can reasonably expect that records about their telephone and Internet activity can remain private when those records belong to someone else: the service providers. [read post]
1 Aug 2007, 6:02 pm
Years later, a part of this secret surveillance is revealed by the New York Times. [read post]
21 Mar 2011, 2:19 pm
Bush’s illegal warrantless surveillance program was never halted by Congress, nor by the Obama administration; it was merely legalized in a 2008 law called the FISA Amendments Act. [read post]
7 Jun 2007, 1:29 pm
Jerry Nadler (D-New York) asked him to provide the legal opinions the Bush administration relied on when unleashing a secret warrantless NSA surveillance program that ended up spying on American citizens: "No. [read post]
17 Dec 2013, 10:01 am by Betsy McKenzie
Judge Leon notes that the Supreme Court took the Jones decision as an opportunity to revisit the Smith decision, because there was an earlier warrantless tracking device opinion, United States v. [read post]
12 Feb 2008, 5:22 pm
The House of Representatives today rejected a three-week extension of the Protect America Act - the legislation it passed in August at the request of the President to expand NSA surveillance authorities. [read post]
25 Sep 2007, 2:16 pm
So if the NSA was targeting suspected terrorists overseas, they could listen in to Americans who called that person without getting a warrant, and not be doing so outside of the nation's spy law (the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.) [read post]