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8 Jul 2010, 5:37 pm by Jeralyn
Via Josh Gerstein at Politico: The lawyers who successfully sued the Government over Bush's warrantless NSA electronic surveillance of the defunct Islamic charity al-Haramain and two of its attorneys have filed a request for $2.26 million in legal fees. [read post]
8 Jul 2010, 3:05 pm by David Kravets
Under Bush’s so-called Terrorist Surveillance Program, which The New York Times disclosed in December 2005, the NSA was eavesdropping on Americans’ telephone calls without warrants if the government believed the person on the other line was overseas and associated with terrorism. [read post]
18 Apr 2010, 2:06 pm by Jeralyn
Judge Vaughn Walker ruled on March 31 (pdf) they were victims of Bush's NSA warrantless electronic surveillance program in violation of FISA, had directed them to submit a statement with their damages. [read post]
16 Apr 2010, 2:45 pm by David Kravets
Under Bush’s so-called Terrorist Surveillance Program, which The New York Times disclosed in December 2005, the NSA was eavesdropping on Americans’ telephone calls without warrants if the government believed the person on the other line was overseas and associated with terrorism. [read post]
15 Apr 2010, 11:50 am by Jeralyn
Drake, a high level official with the National Security Agency, had been indicted in Maryland for making false statements and obstruction of justice into the investigation of who leaked details of Bush's warrantless NSA surveillance program to a newspaper in 2006 and 2007. [read post]
15 Apr 2010, 11:26 am by Amanda Simon, ACLU
The FAA not only essentially legalized President Bush’s warrantless spying program, but it also gave the NSA new and virtually unlimited power to conduct warrantless and suspicionless dragnet monitoring of Americans' international telephone calls and emails. [read post]
15 Apr 2010, 10:47 am by Kim Zetter
Without ThinThread’s data-sifting assets, the warrantless surveillance program was left with a sub-par tool for sniffing out information, and that has diminished the quality of its analysis, according to intelligence officials. [read post]
5 Apr 2010, 10:48 am by Kim Zetter
Bush administration violated the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act when the NSA eavesdropped on the telephone conversations of two American lawyers who represented a now-defunct Saudi charity. [read post]
31 Mar 2010, 5:20 pm by Jeralyn
A federal judge in San Francisco ruled today in an 45 page opinion (available here) that former President Bush's warrantless NSA wiretapping program was illegal. [read post]
31 Mar 2010, 11:26 am by David Kravets
Scholars Reject Obama’s Stance on Warrantless Cell-Phone Records … Courts, Congress Shun Addressing Legality of Warrantless … Top Internet Threats: Censorship to Warrantless Surveillance … [read post]
30 Mar 2010, 2:38 pm by Ryan Singel
The biggest beneficiary of retroactive immunity — AT&T, which installed NSA spying rooms inside its facilities and faced multiple lawsuits from citizens — is also a member of the so-called Digital Due Process group. [read post]
11 Mar 2010, 9:31 am by Lawrence Solum
The article next turns to the telecommunications cases that arose out of the NSA’s warrantless wiretapping program. [read post]
12 Feb 2010, 1:56 pm by Sheldon Toplitt
"The EFF in the past attempted to learn which telecommunications companies participated in the NSA surveillance program, but the companies were granted immunity from the FOIA requests. [read post]
9 Feb 2010, 1:09 pm by David Kravets
Homepage art: monstersweare See Also: Courts, Congress Shun Addressing Legality of Warrantless Eavesdropping Top Internet Threats: Censorship to Warrantless Surveillance Obama Sides With Bush in Spy Case Scholars Reject Obama’s Stance on Warrantless Cell-Phone Records McCain: I’d Spy on Americans Secretly, Too FBI, Telecoms Teamed to Breach Wiretap Laws Bush Administration Says Warrantless Eavesdropping Cannot Be Questioned Senate Set to… [read post]
29 Jan 2010, 1:00 pm by David Kravets
That same legislation also approved Bush’s once-secret warrantless electronic-eavesdropping arrangement — The Terror Surveillance Program. [read post]
22 Jan 2010, 3:07 pm
NSA Warrantless Wiretapping Case; Court Rules That Mass Surveillance of Americans is Immune From Judicial Review. [read post]
22 Jan 2010, 11:27 am by David Kravets
The 2008 legislation also authorized the Terror Surveillance Program as outlined by Bush. [read post]
21 Jan 2010, 11:29 am by Ryan Singel
Bush's torture techniques and warrantless wiretapping of Americans' communications that crossed the border. [read post]
4 Jan 2010, 11:34 am by Kim Zetter
The government lawyer who wrote memos authorizing the Bush administration to engage in torture and warrantless surveillance says he was just doing his job, according to a recent interview. [read post]
30 Dec 2009, 3:41 pm by David Kravets
Photo: AP "Confirming or denying the mere existence of specific records in a general surveillance program would logically be both confirming or denying that the NSA was targeting a specific individual and confirming or denying that the NSA is conducting a general surveillance program," (.pdf) the New York-based appellate court wrote Wednesday. [read post]