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14 Aug 2007, 3:24 pm
In December, 2005, Bush, a Republican, confirmed a warrantless, domestic surveillance program by which the National Security Agency eavesdropped on electronic communications in the United States if one person connected to the communication was outside of the United States and thought to be associated with terrorism. [read post]
14 Aug 2007, 3:06 pm
" The government is asking the court to dismiss two lawsuits aimed at shutting down warrantless surveillance and data-mining of Americans' calls and emails, despite the two cases having evidence that seems to back up the claims of illegal surveillance. [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]
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]
11 Aug 2007, 10:42 pm
(And recall that that legal theory was presumably much more modest than those the Administration had relied upon from 2001 to 2007 to engage in warrantless surveillance.)What appears to have happened, in short, was that under its warrantless "Terrorist Surveillance Program" in place from 2001 to 2007, the NSA intercepted a lot of reportedly valuable communications involving terrorists. [read post]
9 Aug 2007, 4:43 pm
See Also: Citing Four-Day Old Surveillance Law, Bush Seeks Dismissal of Lawsuit Challenging NSA Spying Photo of NSA Spying Installation: Mellowbox Additional reporting by Ryan Singel [read post]
9 Aug 2007, 4:25 pm
Privacy News: Four days after President Bush signed controversial legislation legalizing some warrantless surveillance of Americans, the administration is citing the law in a surprise motion today urging a federal judge to dismisss a lawsuit challenging the NSA spy program. [read post]
9 Aug 2007, 1:11 pm
Four days after President Bush signed controversial legislation legalizing some warrantless surveillance of Americans, the administration is citing the law in a surprise motion today urging a federal judge to dismisss a lawsuit challenging the NSA spy program. [read post]
6 Aug 2007, 6:27 am
" The Washington Times reports that "Bush signs surveillance expansion. [read post]
6 Aug 2007, 12:11 am
UPDATE 2: James Risen, the New York Times reporter who broke the story of the warrantless wiretapping program, has an analysis piece here. [read post]
5 Aug 2007, 9:07 pm
The FISA Amendment passed by Congress this weekend extends and legalizes Bush's warrantless NSA surveillance program. [read post]
2 Aug 2007, 1:57 am
If that was all that was at stake, it would be fairly easy to get Congress to agree to amend FISA to allow warrantless surveillance as long as no U.S. persons located in the U.S. were involved.However, the federal judge apparently objected to more than this. [read post]
Court Ruling that NSA Wiretapping is Illegal Drives Emergency Push for New Spy Powers, MSNBC Reports
1 Aug 2007, 6:02 pm
Years later, a part of this secret surveillance is revealed by the New York Times. [read post]
1 Aug 2007, 1:54 pm
The NSA may have created some sort of operational firewall between the active and passive surveillance. [read post]
1 Aug 2007, 6:22 am
The disclosure by Mike McConnell, the director of national intelligence, appears to be the first time that the administration has publicly acknowledged that Bush's order included undisclosed activities beyond the warrantless surveillance of e-mails and phone calls that Bush confirmed in December 2005. [read post]
31 Jul 2007, 10:28 pm
A while back, it was reported that the Bush Administration authorized the NSA to engage in warrantless wiretapping. [read post]
31 Jul 2007, 10:24 am
Now, if the NSA is listening in on a foreign-to-foreign call and hears that call as it passes through the United States, the NSA needs to get a warrant under the current law. [read post]
28 Jul 2007, 5:09 pm
Are there other "regulations" that govern the NSA that might be implicated here? [read post]
27 Jul 2007, 5:53 pm
The key question in the growing fracas over Attorney General Alberto Gonzales role and testimony about the Intensive Care Showdown isn't whether Gonzales committed perjury or misled Congress in his linguistic dividing up of the warrantless surveillance into two programs, one pre-showdown and one post-showdown. [read post]
27 Jul 2007, 7:29 am
"FBI Director Robert Mueller has contradicted the sworn testimony of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, telling Congress that a prominent warrantless surveillance program was the subject of a dramatic legal debate within the Bush administration, reports the Washington Post. [read post]
