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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]
14 Jun 2007, 12:58 pm
Accompanied by then White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card, Gonzales attempted to persuade Ashcroft to sign an authorization of the NSAâ € ™s domestic surveillance program that Justice had already determined to be illegal. [read post]
11 Mar 2010, 9:31 am by Lawrence Solum
The article next turns to the telecommunications cases that arose out of the NSA’s warrantless wiretapping program. [read post]
8 Jul 2015, 11:03 am
Notably, this language is being promoted by the United States, which is known to have used cable taps on foreign soil in its own illegal NSA surveillance programs. [read post]
26 Jan 2007, 12:49 am
Charles Grassley Letter requests information regarding how DHS is enforcing the use of the Basic Pilot Program by the federal government  HEALTH01/25/2007 Economic Policy Brief: The President's Health Care Proposal: All Risk, No Reward (PDF 40 KB) Prepared by the majority staff of the Joint Economic Committee 01/25/2007 Emergency Response to Hurricanes Katrina and Rita: Audit of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Award Process for a Commercial Purchase Order to… [read post]
15 May 2007, 5:37 am
He refused to approve a sensitive program -- probably the NSA warrantless wiretap program. [read post]
25 Oct 2010, 8:53 am by Jerry Brito
Let’s never forget this is the agency that made warrantless domestic surveillance possible. [read post]
29 May 2008, 10:38 pm
Ever since intelligence chief Michael McConnell decided on cyberterrorism as the latest raison d'etre for warrantless NSA surveillance, we've seen increasingly brazen falsehoods and unverifiable cyberattack stories coming from him and his subordinates, from McConnell's bogus claim that cyberattacks cost the U.S. economy $100 billion a year, to one intelligence official's vague assertion that hackers have caused electrical blackouts in unnamed countries… [read post]
17 Nov 2020, 11:23 am by rainey Reitman
Andrews – EFF/ACLU Amicus Brief – Stingrays (EFF & ACLU amicus brief) EFF, ACLU & CDT Argue Five Months of Warrantless Covert 24/7 Video Surveillance Violates Fourth Amendment (Ongoing case of Commonwealth of Massachusetts v Mora re warrantless video surveillance)  Commonwealth v. [read post]
31 Mar 2014, 6:57 pm by Michael Lowe
From a federal criminal defense standpoint, this involves motions to disclose that get nowhere as the position of the Department of Justice has been that the federal government not only will engage in warrantless wiretapping but that federal prosecutors need not disclose that they had obtained information used in their case via warrantless surveillance. [read post]
11 Nov 2006, 10:06 pm
To be fair, Schumer challenged John Ashcroft's recommendation for a successor head at Abu Ghraib and Bush's NSA warrantless wiretapping program swayed him against the renewal of the Patriot Act. [read post]
10 Apr 2013, 10:21 am by The Book Review Editor
As explained in chapter thirty one, Title III provides that the fruits of an electronic surveillance can be used in a prosecution only if the defendant is first given copies of the government’s application and the court order approving the surveillance. [read post]
Without leaks to the media, we wouldn't know about the Abu Ghraib abuses, we wouldn't know about the NSA warrantless wiretapping program, and of course we wouldn't know about the yellowcake scandal. [read post]
24 Aug 2012, 1:16 pm by Dan Gauss
 The restrictions in this bill could have--were this regime in place—denied the American public the revelations of the Pentagon Papers; the Watergate scandal; and the crimes of torture, extraordinary rendition, and secret prisons, as well as NSA warrantless wiretapping, post 9/11. [read post]
Without leaks to the media, we wouldn't know about the Abu Ghraib abuses, we wouldn't know about the NSA warrantless wiretapping program, and of course we wouldn't know about the yellowcake scandal. [read post]
26 Jul 2007, 7:56 pm
Spencer Ackerman and Paul Kiel have a theory: Alberto Gonzales' testimony that there was "no serious disagreement" within the Bush Administration about the NSA warrantless surveillance program has left senators sputtering and fulminating about the attorney general's apparent prevarications. [read post]
So ruled two separate state supreme courts in decisions that take on the so-called 'third-party doctrine,' an outdated legal precedent that serves as the foundation for the federal government's defense of NSA and FBI bulk records surveillance programs. [read post]
21 Jul 2020, 11:58 am by Marta Belcher
A decision that the government can obtain certain information without a warrant is not just about individual criminal cases like Gratkowski’s; rather, it enables the government to partner with private companies to implement mass surveillance programs like the one at issue in EFF’s lawsuit against the NSA for its warrantless dragnet surveillance of Americans in cooperation with AT&T. [read post]
9 May 2015, 8:11 am by Benjamin Wittes
That’s a very good thing: it’s good for civil libertarians; it’s good for the administration; and it’s good for NSA. [read post]
18 Apr 2023, 5:48 am by Elizabeth Goitein
As I explained in comments to the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB) last November, a geographic limitation on FISA’s reach might have made some sense in 1978, when surveillance inside the United States generally meant surveillance of Americans and surveillance abroad generally meant surveillance of foreigners. [read post]