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9 Jul 2008, 4:15 am
[JURIST] The US Senate Wednesday voted 69-28 [roll call] to approve a bill amending the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) [text; JURIST news archive] to grant retroactive immunity to telecommunications companies participating in the NSA warrantless surveillance program [JURIST news archive]. [read post]
8 Jul 2008, 6:57 pm
Credit: Eggman A group of high-profile progressive bloggers and libertarian Republicans are rolling out a new political action committee called Accountability Now to channel widespread anger over pending legislation that would legalize much of the president's warrantless electronic surveillance of Americans, and grant retroactive legal immunity to telephone companies that cooperated with the spying when it was still illegal. [read post]
8 Jul 2008, 6:42 pm
"The law of the case is that the surveillance program is unconstitutional," Specter said. [read post]
8 Jul 2008, 4:56 am
Bush called on Congress Tuesday to reject amendments [WH fact sheet] to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) [text; JURIST news archive] that would deny telecom companies retroactive immunity for participating in the NSA warrantless surveillance program [JURIST news archive]. [read post]
3 Jul 2008, 5:47 pm
Not so, according to Walker: This provision and its legislative history left no doubt that Congress intended to displace entirely the various warrantless wiretapping and surveillance programs undertaken by the executive branch and to leave no room for the president to undertake warrantless surveillance in the domestic sphere in the future. [read post]
3 Jul 2008, 8:04 am
The case involved an Al-Haramain, an Oregon Charity that alleged it was subjected to NSA warrantless surveillance. [read post]
27 Jun 2008, 5:14 pm
Klein saw a network monitoring room being built in AT&T's internet switching center that only NSA-approved techs had access to. [read post]
25 Jun 2008, 10:19 pm
Well, to begin with, I take slight issue with David's characterization that "Congress in 1978 deliberately allowed NSA to conduct warrantless surveillance of international calls [intercepted abroad] as long as it was not targeting individual Americans located in the United States. [read post]
25 Jun 2008, 2:00 pm
But as I mentioned in prior posts, Congress in 1978 deliberately allowed NSA to conduct warrantless surveillance of international calls as long as it was not targeting individual Americans located in the United States. [read post]
24 Jun 2008, 11:11 pm
He concludes: The NSA wishes to be able to engage in what he calls "vacuum-cleaner" surveillance of U.S. facilities in circumstances where (i) there is no way of knowing in advance which calls are wholly international and (ii) there is no way of knowing in advance which of the targets of such vacuum-cleaner surveillance are foreign powers or their agents. [read post]
22 Jun 2008, 8:27 pm
Under the new law, the NSA can engage in surveillance where none of those three criteria are met. [read post]
22 Jun 2008, 7:38 am
Although DOJ so far has refused to disclose the legal theory underlying these court orders, it is worth considering whether and how they could have both complied with FISA and, as DOJ asserted, allowed the necessary "speed and agility" of warrantless surveillance. [read post]
21 Jun 2008, 8:50 am
FISA was written to permit warrantless surveillance not only of international radio communications, but also of international wire or cable communications, if the wire surveillance was conducted outside the United States - e.g., in the Atlantic ocean. [read post]
20 Jun 2008, 1:49 pm
[JURIST] The US House of Representatives Friday passed [roll call] a compromise version of a bill [HR 6304 materials] amending the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) [text; JURIST news archive] and including a controversial provision granting retroactive immunity to telecommunications companies that participated in the NSA warrantless surveillance program [JURIST news archive]. [read post]
16 Jun 2008, 8:41 pm
Analysis: Spy Ruling Bodes Well for AT&T Eavesdropping Case Analysis: Spy Ruling Portends Hurdles for AT&T Eavesdropping Case US 9th Circuit Deals Setback to NSA Surveillance Victim Ninth Circuit Accepts Appeal of Anti-State Secrets Decision 9th Circuit Deals Setback to NSA Surveillance Victim Photo: Djenan Kozic [read post]
12 Jun 2008, 9:33 pm
However, they do a lot more surveillance than we do. [read post]
6 Jun 2008, 11:11 pm
Not even the Shadow knows.There has been a spate of stories in recent days endlessly recounting, parsing and debating a long series of statements by Senator McCain and his campaign about the extremely important question of whether the NSA's domestic surveillance program was unlawful or whether, instead, the President has the constitutional authority to disregard limits on electronic surveillance that Congress imposed in the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance… [read post]
29 May 2008, 10:38 pm
Ever since intelligence chief Michael McConnell decided on cyberterrorism as the latest raison d'etre for warrantless NSA surveillance, we've seen increasingly brazen falsehoods and unverifiable cyberattack stories coming from him and his subordinates, from McConnell's bogus claim that cyberattacks cost the U.S. economy $100 billion a year, to one intelligence official's vague assertion that hackers have caused electrical blackouts in unnamed countries… [read post]
14 May 2008, 4:21 pm
Apparently real-world warrantless spying isn't as egregious as snooping on opposing NFL coaches. [read post]
9 Apr 2008, 4:19 pm
" Those are odd statements given he was just two seats from Lichtblau who revealed to the nation that the NSA targeted Americans for surveillance without getting warrants. [read post]
