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7 Jun 2007, 1:29 pm
Jerry Nadler (D-New York) asked him to provide the legal opinions the Bush administration relied on when unleashing a secret warrantless NSA surveillance program that ended up spying on American citizens: "No. [read post]
5 Jun 2007, 11:22 pm
This Article elucidates how we can better evaluate changes in our counter-terrorism laws and policies - from warrantless NSA surveillance to massive military operations abroad - by scrutinizing the goals and internal organizational problems of our adversaries. [read post]
5 Jun 2007, 7:35 am
The Bush administration may have broken a law requiring broader congressional notification of intelligence activities when it authorized an NSA warrantless wiretapping program that snooped on American citizens after 9/11. [read post]
1 Jun 2007, 12:02 am
They basically amount to a statement that if the Administration does not disclose to Congress the President's orders authorizing NSA's warrantless surveillance and DOJ's legal opinions on the legality of the program, the Committee will not so much as consider the Administration's proposed amendments to FISA. [read post]
25 May 2007, 8:03 am
For its part, the Bush administration has responded with a full-fledged public relations campaign to convince the public that warrantless surveillance is okay. [read post]
21 May 2007, 10:26 am
  For instance, the bill narrows the definition of electronic surveillance so that the NSA could sift through your phone records, your internet activity, including your emails, without that being considered surveillance. [read post]
19 May 2007, 11:01 pm
John Ashcroft may have had a moment on his hospital sick bed in which he balked at re-authorizing the warrantless NSA surveillance program, and he may have expressed reservations about indefinite detentions at Guantanamo, but he was just as abominable as an Attorney General, and in my opinion, more so than Alberto Gonzales. [read post]
18 May 2007, 6:53 am
Both the DOJ and the NSA provided inadequate responses to the requests - refusing to provide relevant documents within the required time period and refusing to even acknowledge the existence of documents related to whether the individual lawyers were being subjected to warrantless surveillance. [read post]
17 May 2007, 1:59 pm
When it's convenient he'll talk about the warrantless surveillance program from its origin. [read post]
16 May 2007, 3:16 pm
Comey and others at the Justice Department had raised concerns about the NSA wiretapping program. [read post]
16 May 2007, 10:03 am
Politics TV has the video of James Comey's testimony yesterday about his rush to the hospital to pre-empt Alberto Gonzales and Andy Card's attempt to get former Attorney General John Ashcroft to sign off on the extension of the warrantless NSA wiretap program. [read post]
15 May 2007, 3:13 pm
In 2004, then-Attorney General John Ashcroft had doubts about the legality of the White House's NSA surveillance program -- so much so that a deputy refused to reauthorize the warrantless spying while Ashcroft was in the hospital. [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]
15 May 2007, 7:06 am
[JURIST] Former US Deputy Attorney General James Comey [official profile] testified [transcript] before the Senate Judiciary Committee Tuesday that in March 2004, in response to Comey's reservations about reauthorizing the controversial warrantless domestic surveillance program [JURIST news archive], then-White House Counsel Alberto Gonzales and White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card [official [read post]
15 May 2007, 5:37 am
He refused to approve a sensitive program -- probably the NSA warrantless wiretap program. [read post]
11 May 2007, 10:07 am
As the Senate Report noted, FISA "was designed . . . to curb the practice by which the Executive Branch may conduct warrantless electronic surveillance on its own unilateral determination that national security justifies it. [read post]
16 Apr 2007, 2:09 pm
By JAYNE LYN STAHLApril 16, 2007Remember all the hooplah, and righteous indignation, on the part of Congress, when the National Security Agency electronic surveillance program story first broke, several months ago, and word got out that Bush & Co. have been illegally monitoring e-mails, and conducting warrantless eavesdropping in defiance of Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act law of 1978? [read post]
5 Mar 2007, 7:40 am
And now that document is the smoking gun evidence of an NSA wiretapping program. [read post]
22 Feb 2007, 3:30 pm
27B appealed the White House Privacy and Civil Liberties Board decision to withold -- in their totality -- 69 of 72 documents related to the Board's hidden knowledge of the Administration's warrantless surveillance of Americans' emails and phone calls. [read post]