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12 Feb 2008, 3:25 pm
Many of the proposed amendments would have significantly increased privacy protections, with many of them allowing for warrantless surveillance during emergency situations. [read post]
12 Feb 2008, 2:59 pm
The Senate overwhelming voted Tuesday evening to legalize President Bush's warrantless wiretapping program and grant amnesty to the phone companies that helped out with the domestic spying.. [read post]
12 Feb 2008, 1:53 pm
US Warrantless Spying Program Targeted Americans, Which Violates ... [read post]
12 Feb 2008, 7:35 am
[JURIST] The US Senate voted 69-29 [roll call] Tuesday in favor of a cloture motion [Senate backgrounder] limiting further debate on a bill [S 2248 materials] which would provide immunity for telecommunications companies [JURIST report] from lawsuits related to their participation in the NSA warrantless surveillance program [JURIST news archive]. [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]
7 Feb 2008, 8:53 am
McConnell began his testimony calling on Congress to give retroactive immunity to the telecoms that illegally gave the NSA access to our phone calls and e-mails. [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]
29 Jan 2008, 10:06 am
Kevin Bankston, a lawyer with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a nonprofit legal organization that has fought the Bush administration's secrecy efforts on the NSA surveillance program, said the state secrets privilege is being abused regardless of the number of times it has been invoked. [read post]
28 Jan 2008, 5:31 pm
Senate Democrats pulled through for the majority of Americans who are against unchecked, warrantless spying and oppose immunity for the telephone companies who aided and abetted the NSA spy program. [read post]
23 Jan 2008, 2:33 pm
In that piece, McConnell was paraphrased as saying that the NSA lost 70 percent of its capabilities after a secret court ruled that the government's warrantless wiretapping program was illlegal. [read post]
15 Jan 2008, 9:55 am
Now the NSA can turn Gmail's servers and AT&T's switches into de facto arms of the surveillance industrial complex without any court oversight. [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]
27 Dec 2007, 2:34 pm
It turns out the Patriot Act champion took a heroic stand against a version of president Bush's warrantless domestic surveillance program in 2004, resisting White House pressure even while lying in an intensive care unit bed. [read post]
18 Dec 2007, 10:39 am
[JURIST] US Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) said Monday that a Senate vote on whether to extend immunity to telecommunications companies [JURIST report] from lawsuits related to their participation in the NSA warrantless surveillance program [JURIST news archive] would be delayed until after the Senate returns from the holiday recess. [read post]
17 Dec 2007, 4:28 pm
The EFF is suing AT&T for allegedly helping the NSA wiretap the internet, a suit that is now awaiting a decision from the U.S. [read post]
16 Dec 2007, 5:00 am
The New York Times has some new and very disturbing revelations in the NSA warrantless wiretapping controversy. [read post]
14 Dec 2007, 11:23 am
Since that provision doesn't provide the NSA with a way to order companies such as Google or AT&T to help, House Republicans argue the bill effectively requires the NSA to get court orders to wiretap anyone when the NSA wants to collect that info from switches and communication companies inside the United States. [read post]
11 Dec 2007, 1:37 pm
See Also: Secret Spy Court To Consider ACLU Request For Bush Spying Orders NSA Warrantless Spying Now Special Warrant Spying Secret Court Shatters Record for Spying Warrants More Known Unknowns in NSA Spy Controversy: Secret Appeals Courts ... [read post]
21 Nov 2007, 9:42 am
Top Spy Asked to Explain Pre-9/11 Spying Allegations NSA Domestic Surveillance Began 7 Months Before 9/11, Convicted Qwest CEO Claims Photo: Peter Kaminski [read post]
18 Nov 2007, 2:32 am
Of Note: This case involves solely international surveillance, though the opinion dryly observes that there have been allegations of warrantless domestic wiretapping as well. [read post]
