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27 Nov 2006, 4:49 pm
Press release: "Following requests for an investigation of the National Security Agency ’s (NSA) warrantless surveillance program from Representatives Zoe Lofgren... [read post]
27 Nov 2006, 4:07 am
The good news is that Justice Department Inspector General Glenn Fine announced he will conduct an investigation into how the Justice Department used the information it received from Bush's warrantless, NSA electronic surveillance program. [read post]
24 Nov 2006, 4:07 am
It's been almost a year since the public learned of President Bush's warrantless NSA electronic surveillance program. [read post]
19 Nov 2006, 12:07 pm
The "Lawful Intelligence and Surveillance of Terrorists in an Emergency by NSA Act" (LISTEN Act) would make it crystal clear that any efforts to listen in on Americans or gather phone & email records must comply with the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) -- created by Congress in 1978 to correct the excesses of the Nixon Administration -- and Title III of the criminal code. [read post]
14 Nov 2006, 5:32 pm
Following up in general on postings related to the administration's domestic surveillance program, and specifically on, Federal Judge Rules NSA... [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]
11 Nov 2006, 10:13 pm
The Senate Judiciary Committee approved several NSA bills today -- two of which would radically expand the President's authority to conduct warrantless surveillance inside the United States. [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]
21 Sep 2006, 2:36 pm
[JURIST] Lawyers for the US Department of Justice Thursday asked the US Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals [official website] to reverse a ruling [JURIST report] of Judge Garr King of US District Court in Portland to allow a lawsuit by the US branch of the Saudi Arabia-based Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation [Wikipedia profile] to proceed against the US government over the warrantless wiretapping [ [read post]
2 Sep 2006, 4:01 am
[JURIST] Arguing that the NSA domestic surveillance program [JURIST news archive] is a necessary weapon in the war on terror, the US Department of Justice Friday filed a motion in federal court asking the court to delay enforcement of an order requiring the NSA to immediately cease using warrantless wiretaps to monitor domestic phone conversations. [read post]
22 Aug 2006, 6:49 pm
The reason is that the jurisdiction of those courts is limited to foreign intelligence surveillance warrants, and the NSA program under attack involves warrantless surveillance.....Five years after the 9/11 attacks, the institutional structure of U.S. counterterrorism is in disarray. [read post]
22 Aug 2006, 1:08 pm
The reason is that the jurisdiction of those courts is limited to foreign intelligence surveillance warrants, and the NSA program under attack involves warrantless surveillance.....Five years after the 9/11 attacks, the institutional structure of U.S. counterterrorism is in disarray. [read post]
22 Aug 2006, 10:54 am
It's not as if five Justices of the Supreme Court, or Judge Taylor, disagree with the President on the nature of the Al Qaeda threat, on how effective the NSA surveillance program would be at detecting terrorists, or at how efficient it would be to convict detainees under the President's military commissions. [read post]
19 Aug 2006, 12:10 pm
Laurence Tribe[This posting was based on an e-mail addressed to Adam Liptak at the New York Times]Dear Adam,Good story on this morning's front page about Judge Taylor's unusually casual and surprisingly breezy way of dispatching the Bush administration's legal defense of its NSA warrantless surveillance program,. [read post]
18 Aug 2006, 9:18 pm
Judge Taylor ruled that the President's secret directive to the NSA to engage in warrantless electronic surveillance of telephone calls and emails involving American citizens on American soil violates both the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 and the Constitution. [read post]
17 Aug 2006, 11:14 am
This could have been tricky -- because no one knows who has been surveilled or how that information is being used. [read post]
10 Jul 2006, 8:27 am
[JURIST] A lawyer for the US Justice Department (DOJ) argued in federal court again [JURIST report] Monday that a lawsuit challenging the National Security Agency's warrantless domestic surveillance program [JURIST news archive] must be dismissed because defending it in court would jeopardize national security. [read post]
26 Jun 2006, 12:20 pm
Although I was aware of the NSA’s warrantless electronic surveillance program at the time, I did not make the... [read post]
6 Apr 2006, 9:52 am
James Sensenbrenner (R-WI) [official website] accused US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales [official profile] of "stonewalling" his committee on the topic of the NSA warrantless surveillance program [JURIST news archive] during an oversight hearing [meeting materials] Thursday on US Justice Department operations. [read post]
25 Mar 2006, 11:53 am
[JURIST] The US Department of Justice (DOJ) [official website] responded Friday to Democratic questions [PDF text] and Republican questions [PDF text] from members of the House Judiciary Committee [official website] regarding the Bush administration's domestic surveillance [JURIST news archive] program, maintaining that National Security Agency (NSA) [official website] warrantless wiretapping of [read post]
