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23 Jun 2007, 10:44 am
As has been well documented, the Bush administration ran a complete end-around on FISA and the court that is supposed to approve warrants for domestic surveillance (the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, over which Lamberth presided from 1995 to 2002). [read post]
28 Jul 2021, 12:25 pm by India McKinney
Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) requires tech and telecommunications companies to provide the U.S. government with access to emails and other communications to aid in national security investigations--ostensibly when U.S. persons are in communication with foreign surveillance targets abroad or wholly foreign communications transit the U.S. [read post]
10 Feb 2023, 11:25 am by John A. Emmons
Jeff Kosseff considered the impending lapse of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which permits the warrantless surveillance of non-U.S. persons on American soil by the National Security Agency (NSA). [read post]
12 Sep 2020, 7:07 am by Anna Salvatore, Tia Sewell
” He was joined by Nick Weaver, David Kris and Dave Aitel to discuss the impending U.S. ban of WeChat and TikTok, the attempted hack into Tesla and a recent Ninth Circuit decision on warrantless surveillance: Yuval Shany examined new official guidelines in Israel for prosecuting protesters who have been calling for the resignation of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu since May outside his house. [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]
29 Jul 2008, 10:59 pm
When asked about the NSA's own warrantless monitoring of electronic communications in the United States and how that's different from the Chinese government's practices, Brownback responded:We don't put the hardware and software on hotels. [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]
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]
30 Aug 2007, 11:27 am
The government has admitted to a warrantless surveillance of some international phone calls and emails (the so-called Terrorist Surveillance Program), but has never confirmed or denied whether it data-mined billions of call records, as reported by the USA Today and confirmed by members of Congress. [read post]
Inspectors general of key security agencies who reviewed the NSA warrantless wiretapping program found no hard evidence the program made us safer, despite its unprecedented scope. [read post]
13 Nov 2006, 10:38 am
"Defense attorneys had asked that the court order the prosecution to say whether NSA warrantless wiretaps had been used. [read post]
24 Jun 2009, 8:29 pm
In 2006, he was one of 72 Congresspersons to file an Amicus Brief challenging NSA warrantless electronic surveillance. [read post]
1 Dec 2006, 7:41 am
The government also has interposed the privilege in connection with litigation arising out of the NSA's warrantless surveillance program, albeit with mixed success so far. [read post]
11 Apr 2009, 2:07 pm
NSA, Electronic Frontier Foundation's lawsuit challenging the National Security Agency's warrantless wiretapping of Americans, the DOJ invoked the state secrets doctrine, insisting that the case must be dismissed without further inquiry in order to prevent "exceptionally grave harm to national security. [read post]
13 Aug 2007, 12:32 pm
Just as this administration used clever wordgames to link 9/11 and Saddam Hussein prior to the Iraq invasion, the White House has spin doctored the news on FISA to convince voters that the warrantless surveillance won't capture American conversations on American soil, when nothing could be further from the truth. [read post]
5 Feb 2019, 3:53 pm by Elliot Harmon
This job is a big one: you’ll be joining EFF’s efforts to end warrantless spying by the NSA and other federal government agencies, as well as to fight for restrictions on the use of surveillance technologies by local law enforcement agencies. [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]