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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]
9 Jul 2008, 4:15 am
[JURIST] The US Senate Wednesday voted 69-28 [roll call] to approve a bill amending the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) [text; JURIST news archive] to grant retroactive immunity to telecommunications companies participating in the NSA warrantless surveillance program [JURIST news archive]. [read post]
2 Mar 2015, 11:43 am by Mark Rumold
This opinion, described as the "Rosetta Stone" of FAA surveillance by those familiar with it, purportedly represents the FISC’s full assessment of the range of legal issues presented by NSA surveillance under Section 702 of the FAA—a provision of law authorizing the government to conduct warrantless surveillance within the United States of overseas targets. [read post]
6 Sep 2017, 10:00 am by Siobhan Gorman
The secret loosening of internal checks on NSA programs following the 9/11 terrorist attacks resulted in the warrantless surveillance program, Stellar Wind. [read post]
15 Dec 2008, 6:49 pm
It's been three years since The New York Timesfirst broke the news of the NSA's warrantless wiretapping program, based on information provided by an anonymous source. [read post]
11 Jul 2014, 3:00 am by Axel Arnbak
CBS News and a host of other outlets have covered my new paper with Sharon Goldberg, Loopholes for Circumventing the Constitution: Warrantless Bulk Surveillance on Americans by Collecting Network Traffic Abroad. [read post]
13 Sep 2012, 1:34 pm by Brandon Gatto
The law's Reauthorization Act of 2012 [text, PDF] renews 2008 revisions which call for special government programs, such as the National Security Agency (NSA) [official website] warrantless surveillance program [JURIST news archive], to be operated under court supervision. [read post]
23 Jan 2009, 8:23 am
New allegations from Russell Tice, the former NSA analyst who earlier revealed the agency's role in warrantless eavesdropping on international phone calls, suggest that the NSA has also been compiling a vast database of information about the domestic communications of US citizens. [read post]
1 May 2017, 3:38 pm by kate
If the warrantless spying on Americans scares and offends you, contact your representatives in Congress and tell them to pull the plug on Section 702 surveillance. [read post]
1 Sep 2007, 6:28 am
Perhaps predictably, but news nonetheless, the Bush Administration Friday filed its opposition to the ACLU's request that the FISA court release the rulings it issued since January, 2007 concerning Bush's warrantless NSA electronic surveillance program. [read post]
5 Apr 2010, 10:48 am by Kim Zetter
Bush administration violated the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act when the NSA eavesdropped on the telephone conversations of two American lawyers who represented a now-defunct Saudi charity. [read post]
31 Mar 2010, 5:20 pm by Jeralyn
A federal judge in San Francisco ruled today in an 45 page opinion (available here) that former President Bush's warrantless NSA wiretapping program was illegal. [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]
The New America Foundation Report uses even stronger language, concluding that the administration's claims about the role of warrantless NSA surveillance programs in keeping Americans safe are "overblown and even misleading." [read post]
25 Feb 2008, 2:54 pm
Bush Monday reiterated his support [transcript] for a surveillance bill that grants immunity for telecommunications companies [JURIST report] from lawsuits related to their participation in the NSA warrantless surveillance program [JURIST news archive]. [read post]
The ACLU today joined a new challenge to the constitutionality of the FISA Amendments Act of 2008 (FAA) — the surveillance law that gives the NSA virtually unfettered access to the international phone calls and emails of U.S. citizens and residents. [read post]
25 Jun 2013, 12:51 pm by Rahul Bhagnari, ACLU
Without it, we may never get a definitive ruling on whether the NSA's mass surveillance of our internet and telephone communications complies with the Constitution. [read post]
25 Jun 2013, 12:51 pm by Rahul Bhagnari, ACLU
Without it, we may never get a definitive ruling on whether the NSA's mass surveillance of our internet and telephone communications complies with the Constitution. [read post]
3 Jul 2013, 7:19 am by Rahul Bhagnari, ACLU
That's right, the procedures allow the NSA to presume that prospective targets are foreigners outside the United States absent specific information to the contrary—and to presume therefore that those individuals are fair game for warrantless surveillance. [read post]
14 Jun 2017, 1:15 pm
Under the law, service providers are required to facilitate the government’s warrantless surveillance of Americans’ international communications. [read post]