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11 Feb 2007, 12:12 am
This is, after all, an Administration in which officials of the CIA, NSA and Defense Department often balked when requested to engage in conduct of dubious legality ("enhanced" interrogation techniques; warrantless electronic surveillance), only to be assured that they could reasonably rely upon very unorthodox legal advice from the Department of Justice -- including, in the case of the August 2002 OLC torture opinion, advice about the Commander-in-Chief Clause… [read post]
9 Feb 2007, 6:24 am
[JURIST] The US District Court of Maine [official website] has ruled that the Maine Public Utilities Commission (MPUC) [official website] cannot compel Verizon Communications [corporate website] to disclose whether the telephone company participated in the warrantless domestic surveillance program [JURIST news archive] run by the US National Security Agency (NSA) [official website]. [read post]
2 Feb 2007, 8:16 am
And let me remind you, as Beeson reminded the panel: FISA provides the executive branch with the power to conduct warrantless surveillance 15 days after the declaration of war and up to 72 hours before FISA approval. [read post]
31 Jan 2007, 10:40 am
During the course of my prosecution for leaking the “Pentagon Papers ” to the New York Times and other newspapers, I learned that I had been the victim of warrantless electronic surveillance by the federal government. [read post]
31 Jan 2007, 7:43 am
NSA case, authored an op-ed in today ’s New York Times, talking about how historically, even Presidents were held accountable when they broke the law. [read post]
30 Jan 2007, 2:37 pm
NSA case, we learn about even more vacuum cleaner approaches to domestic surveillance, except this time it ’s under the guise of the FBI and not the NSA. [read post]
29 Jan 2007, 1:11 pm
Karl Tobias argues that Congress must investigate the NSA's warrantless surveillance program, despite the Attorney General's belated assurance that the administration will cooperate with FISA courts in the future. [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]
25 Jan 2007, 5:08 pm
Attorney General Alberto Gonzales announced that the NSA warrantless surveillance program would soon be... [read post]
23 Jan 2007, 11:58 pm
Here is the abstract:This article examines the recently disclosed, presidentially authorized program of warrantless electronic surveillance by the National Security Agency (NSA). [read post]
18 Jan 2007, 4:56 am
The move comes amid increasing criticism from Democrats and some Republicans who say the NSA's Terrorist Surveillance Program has infringed on privacy rights and wrongly bypassed a special court of federal judges that secretly monitors classified intelligence-gathering. [read post]
17 Jan 2007, 6:13 pm
NOTE: The so-called warrantless domestic spying program that has been under challenge in the federal courts for months had appeared likely to lead ultimately to a constitutional review by the Supreme Court. [read post]
17 Jan 2007, 2:08 pm
The Justice Department today disclosed that the NSA warrantless surveillance will be discontinued in its present form and in the future operate under the FISA court. [read post]
16 Jan 2007, 3:16 pm
In an important concession, the Bush Administration has said that going forward it will obtain court orders for wiretapping inside the United States, abandoning a program of warrantless surveillance secretly launched by the President in 2001. [read post]
5 Jan 2007, 12:47 pm
The administration has strongly defended the legality of the NSA spying program, arguing that Congress authorized it as part of the war on al-Qaeda and, even if it had not, that the president has the power to order such surveillance. [read post]
22 Dec 2006, 11:31 am
What follows is a compendium of substantive analyses on some of the key issues of the War on Terror by the authors here at Balkinization.The Anti-Torture Memos: Balkinization Posts on Civil Liberties, the War on Terror and Presidential PowerPart I-- Civil LibertiesPart II-- Presidential Power and Constitutional StructurePart III-- Torture and the "Torture Memos"Part IV- The NSA Controversy and Government SurveillancePart V-- HamdanPart VI-- The Military Commissions Act of… [read post]
22 Dec 2006, 9:38 am
We ’re seeing similar abuses of the national security claim in our challenges to warrantless NSA wiretapping, “extraordinary rendition, ” and the FBI's retaliatory firing of a whistleblower. [read post]
5 Dec 2006, 12:57 am
[JURIST] The US Department of Justice urged a federal appeals court Monday to dismiss a lawsuit challenging the NSA's domestic surveillance program pursuant to the state secrets privilege. [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]
29 Nov 2006, 5:08 pm
Glenn Greenwald explains how Lanny Davis mirrors his buddy Lieberman as the Fox Democrat, this time on Bush's illegal warrantless surveillance: [E]ven if Lanny Davis and the other Republicans on the panel think the President is using his illegal powers carefully, his conduct is no less illegal. [read post]
