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26 Oct 2015, 7:03 pm by Kelly Phillips Erb
Special Operations Command (Special Ops), and, of course, the National Security Agency (NSA). [read post]
17 Oct 2013, 3:17 pm by WIRED
Broward Sheriff's Office Five years after Congress authorized warrantless electronic spying, the Obama administration has never divulged to a single defendant that they were the target of this type of phone or e-mail surveillance—despite lawmakers’ claims the snooping has stopped terrorist plots and resulted in arrests. [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]
7 Feb 2008, 4:08 pm
Rockefeller Lets Slip the Spying Truth: Drift Nets To Be Legalized Senate Set to Re-Up Bush Warrantless Spying Powers in US Immunity and Wide Spy Powers Set to Pass in Senate Surveillance Doesn't Mean What You Think It Means Top Spy Pushed Congress For Wider Powers, Citing High Summer Threat Level Homeland Security Threat Level Raised to Chicago Dog With Everything [read post]
14 Jun 2012, 2:57 pm by David Kravets
It can begin surveillance a week before making the request, and the surveillance can continue during the appeals process if, in a rare case, the secret FISA court rejects the surveillance application. [read post]
9 Oct 2007, 9:36 am
Requires an Audit of the President's Surveillance Program and Other Warrantless Surveillance Programs. [read post]
5 Feb 2008, 12:27 pm
" For years, NSA watchers and former employees swore that NSA employees lived by the mantra 'Don't target Americans.' But as former White House General Counsel Alberto Gonzales publicly admitted in December 2005, that rule secretly went out the window after 9/11 when the President ordered the NSA to point its surveillance equipment at Americans. [read post]
12 Aug 2007, 3:09 pm
As JaO writes, section 105B might be construed (and probably will be construed by the Executive branch) as "a powerful new government tool for warrantless surveillance directed at a whole new set of platforms where compulsory process is needed. [read post]
28 Jun 2013, 12:57 pm by Rahul Bhagnari, ACLU
In order to defend the massive NSA surveillance program, the government revealed that criminal defendants had no opportunity to challenge the constitutionality of which law? [read post]
29 Dec 2017, 6:00 am by Shannon Togawa Mercer
As Jordan Brunner and Emma Khose summarize, Carpenter is a case concerning the law enforcement use of cell site records in the prosecution of two alleged robbers; the question at issue is whether the warrantless search and seizure of cell site records violates the Fourth Amendment. [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 Apr 2023, 5:16 am by James Petrila
The artful drafting of the (f)(3) definition allowed the NSA to continue its warrantless collection of international communications on a programmatic basis while the (f)(1) definition prohibited the NSA from targeting known persons in the U.S. [read post]
26 Feb 2009, 10:17 am
Obama opposed immunity but voted for it because it was included in a new spy bill that gave the U.S. presidency broad, warrantless-surveillance powers. [read post]
30 Aug 2023, 5:55 am by Patrick C. Toomey
The NSA and the CIA, for their part, also conducted more than 4,600 warrantless backdoor searches of Americans last year—no small number. [read post]
7 Sep 2011, 9:12 am by Benjamin Wittes
The NSA, of course, had been engaged in a probably illegal campaign of warrantless surveillance of American’s electronic communications. [read post]
17 Jan 2014, 8:27 am by Rebecca Tushnet
Expansion of surveillance is all around us, in the 500 terabytes of info into Facebook every day, 1 billion phone calls and emails collected by NSA every day, surveillance cameras now using facial recognition, satellites, and drones. [read post]
21 Jul 2008, 12:28 pm
The NSA calls the declarations "irrelevant and speculative. [read post]
3 Apr 2008, 2:57 am
Also, Pam Hess and Lara Lakes Jordan of the AP are onto the connection between the "Fourth Amendment" footnote in this memo and the NSA's warrantless surveillance program.Oh, and in the meantime, on the very day that the Yoo memo was released, we have the tantalizing Vanity Fair excerpts from Philippe Sands's new book -- the prequel to the Yoo memo, which takes the Pentagon story more or less right up to the point where the Yoo memo resolves the… [read post]
15 May 2007, 1:33 pm
The MSM is reporting on Comey's testimony regarding Alberto Gonzales' and Andrew Cards' 2004 hospital visit to former Attorney General John Ashcroft to get him to sign off on an extension of Bush's warrantless NSA electronic surveillance program. [read post]