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16 Nov 2007, 5:38 pm
See Also: Analysis: Spy Ruling Portends Hurdles for AT&T Eavesdropping Case U.S. 9th Circuit Deals Setback to NSA Surveillance Victim 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… [read post]
16 Nov 2007, 4:06 pm
In other words, the government's many attempts to assuage citizens' fears that they have not been surveilled now doom the government's assertion that the very subject matter of this litigation, the existence of a warrantless surveillance program, is barred by the state secrets privilege. [read post]
16 Nov 2007, 10:35 am
Bush authorized the National Security Agency ('NSA') to conduct a warrantless communications surveillance program. [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]
15 Nov 2007, 12:03 pm
The law no longer requires the government to get a special court order from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance court to do so.The House bill (.pdf) craftily still allows that power, but only for surveillance where the NSA knows that both ends of the conversations are outside the United States and can prove that to a secret court. [read post]
11 Nov 2007, 9:25 pm
The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), 50 USC 1801 et seq, allows warrantless surveillance of the electronic communications of agents of foreign powers either within the USA or outside of it, but a secret FISA court must approve a warrant in order for the communications of a US citizen within the USA to be surveilled.4Within a few months, over 40 lawsuits had been filed against the major telecommunications companies, mostly by civil liberties groups. [read post]
11 Nov 2007, 9:24 am
For the past several months, Congress has been wrangling over how to amend the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act to allow for the NSA warrantless surveillance program. [read post]
8 Nov 2007, 2:05 am
Contrary to the government's depiction of its surveillance program as aimed at overseas terrorists, Klein said, much of the data sent through AT&T to the NSA was purely domestic. [read post]
5 Nov 2007, 8:43 am
In an Op-Ed this morning, John Ashcroft advocates granting retroactive immunity to telecommunications companies that illegally assisted the NSA's warrantless surveillance program by turning over their customers' private communications to the government. [read post]
5 Nov 2007, 6:20 am
In an Op-Ed this morning, John Ashcroft advocates granting retroactive immunity to telecommunications companies that illegally assisted the NSA's warrantless surveillance program by turning over their customers' private communications to the government. [read post]
2 Nov 2007, 9:29 am
The current law places virtually no limits on what kind of surveillance the NSA can do in those warrantless taps, while pending proposals in the Senate and House place varying levels of limits on when the NSA can listen in without a court warrant. [read post]
29 Oct 2007, 3:58 pm
AT&T and Verizon are also accused of giving the NSA access to billions of Americans' phone records, in order to data-mine them to spot suspected terrorists, and presumably to identify targets for warrantless wiretapping. [read post]
23 Oct 2007, 4:09 am
Senators Say White House Cut Deal With Panel on FISA — pdf Senate Judiciary Committee members yesterday angrily accused the White House of allowing the Senate Intelligence Committee to review documents on its warrantless surveillance program in return for agreeing that telecommunications companies should get immunity from lawsuits. [read post]
22 Oct 2007, 10:34 pm
In 2003, Rockefeller, one of the eight Congressional officials to be briefed on the government's secret targeting of American citizens for secret warrantless surveillance, hand-wrote a letter to Vice President Dick Cheney expressing concern about the legality of the program. [read post]
16 Oct 2007, 12:22 am
Finally, approval was granted and, at 7:38 that night, surveillance began. [read post]
12 Oct 2007, 2:23 pm
Photo: Bush Inauguration 2001 See Also: NSA Domestic Surveillance Began 7 Months Before 9/11, Convicted Qwest CEO Claims New AT&T Conspiracy Theory Dems Ask Telcos Spying Questions Telecoms Continue Push For Get-Out-of-Court Card for Illegal Spying Dems Spying Bill Adds Oversight, Allows Taps Inside US Dems To Let NSA Spy in US, But Spooks Will Hate the Fine Print ... [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]
11 Oct 2007, 4:20 pm
The government has never confirmed or denied the existence of the program, but is trying to win legal immunity for telecoms being sued for their alleged participation in the call records program and the government's warrantless wiretapping of Americans. [read post]
10 Oct 2007, 12:49 pm
House Judiciary Chairman John Conyers (D- Michigan) said the bill struck the right balance in his opening statement this morning: Six years ago, the Administration unilaterally chose to engage in warrantless surveillance of American citizens without court review. [read post]
10 Oct 2007, 10:14 am
If the NSA wants to get all of the communications to an email address (provided by a U.S. company) of a suspected spy or terrorist that the NSA believes is outside of the country? [read post]
