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1 Aug 2013, 2:02 pm by Old Fox
linkThe more i learn, the more incorrect, flawed, distorted, and unjust seems the method of making decisions, governing, and settling things by the process of "democracy!" [read post]
10 Oct 2007, 6:32 am
Bush Wednesday called for Congress to make permanent [press release] the expansion of surveillance powers granted in August's Protect America Act [S 1927 materials], adding that he would not sign any eavesdropping bill that does not grant retroactive immunity for telecommunications companies facing lawsuits related to government eavesdropping that was conducted [read post]
26 Jan 2007, 5:27 am
"Dismissal of Lawsuit Against Warrantless Wiretaps Sought": The Washington Post today contains an article that begins, "A lawsuit challenging the legality of the National Security Agency's warrantless surveillance program should be thrown out because the government is now conducting the wiretaps under the authority of a secret intelligence court, according to court papers filed by the Justice Department yesterday. [read post]
18 Aug 2007, 4:45 pm
[JURIST] A judge on the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act [JURIST news archive] (FISA) court said in an order [PDF text] released Friday that the court would consider [ACLU press release] what she called an "unprecedented" ACLU motion [PDF text; JURIST report] to release to the public hitherto-classified rulings on the extent of the US government's wiretapping authority. [read post]
13 Apr 2015, 10:19 am by Alison Sacriponte
The government has dismissed these concerns and clarified that the measures being proposed are not aimed at general surveillance,... [read post]
18 Oct 2007, 11:49 am
The bill, which would amend the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act [text], also includes a provision requiring the attorney general to [read post]
5 Apr 2007, 1:39 am
"Mike" McConnell [official profile], who succeeded John Negroponte as US Director of National Intelligence in February, delivered a policy address [PDF text] to the 2007 Excellence in Government Conference [website] Wednesday criticizing federal surveillance laws as outdated and unresponsive to terrorist threats. [read post]
11 Feb 2006, 7:35 am
[JURIST] The criminal investigation into government leaks which led to the New York Times' disclosure [JURIST report] of the National Security Agency's domestic surveillance program [JURIST archive] is expanding, as federal agents have increased the number of interviews of law enforcement and national security officials. [read post]
30 Mar 2024, 6:00 pm by William A. Jacobson
From digital surveillance to censorship to making Intel and enforcement agencies central players in domestic governance ... they are thinking on a much bigger and more dangerous scale than Republicans. [read post]
14 Mar 2008, 12:30 pm
"House Passes New Surveillance Bill": The Associated Press provides a report that begins, "The House on Friday narrowly approved a Democratic bill that would set rules for the government's eavesdropping on phone calls and e-mails inside the United States. [read post]
12 Mar 2008, 3:05 pm
Mike German, Policy Counsel for National Security at our Washington Legislative Office and a 16-year veteran of the FBI, will be on CBS's Early Show tomorrow morning to talk about the federal government's surveillance of Americans' financial transactions. [read post]
4 Jun 2007, 8:33 am
Pangloss should not be so flippant or indeed, so late.The HL Constitutional Committee issued a Call for Evidence in late April on "the impact that government surveillance and data collection have upon the privacy of citizens and their relationship with the State. [read post]
15 Jun 2013, 6:19 pm
According to the "Tuned In" column in the June 24, 2013 issue of Time, U.S. popular culture has been predicting government surveillance of U.S. citizens for a while now.Think shows like Chuck and Person of Interest, and next season's new series Intelligence. [read post]
16 Jul 2017, 3:46 pm by lennyesq
Whether it’s corporations or governments, digital surveillance today is widespread. [read post]
17 Dec 2013, 9:09 pm by David J. Shestokas
Obama finds much of the National Security Agency’s (NSA) surveillance collection of “telephony metadata” […] [read post]
12 Apr 2005, 7:19 am
[JURIST] The federal government has unsealed the indictment [text] of three men charged with plotting an attack on several financial institutions in the US. [read post]
27 Feb 2006, 8:59 am
[JURIST] US Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter (R-PA) [official website] has begun circulating a draft version of a bill that would require the federal government to obtain permission before conducting domestic surveillance [JURIST news archive]. [read post]
6 Feb 2015, 10:09 am by Taylor Brailey
[JURIST] The UK Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT) [official website] ruled [judgment, PDF] Friday that the UK's mass surveillance of citizens' Internet use violates humans rights law. [read post]