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• There is something fundamentally wrong here.

  Published: August 4, 2007, 11:56 am

  Tags: Fisa, Alberto Gonzales, Domestic Spying, Wiretapping, Surveillance, Separation Of Powers

  The Congress is at the threshold of a major capitulation on FISA. There's no doubt that there are a lot of political (read: electoral) implications to this vote. We all know that. We've been through this fear mongering routine before, where the public is rattled by vague pronouncements about unspecified threats (or about whatever's going on in

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• Ingraham falsely asserted NY Times said "we should not update [FISA] to meet current advances in technology"

  Published: August 3, 2007, 8:30 pm

  Tags: Laura Ingraham, Fox Amp Friends, Fox News Channel, Domestic Spying, National Security Foreign Policy

  use it to destroy the 1978 spying law. It proposed giving the attorney general carte blanche to order eavesdropping on any international telephone calls or e-mail messages if he decided on his own that there was a "reasonable belief" that the target of the surveillance was outside the United States. The attorney general's decision would

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• AT&T censors Pearl Jam for criticizing Bush

  Published: August 10, 2007, 9:57 am

  Tags: Domestic Spying, Censorship, Att

  wonder. AT&T is spying on your email and phone conversations and giving the results to the Bush administration. So it's no surprise that AT&T now won't let people criticize Dear Leader. They really shouldn't be permitted to have such a monopoly on long distance service and Internet service. Yes, there's competition - but not enough. As the

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• Senate To Follow House In Seeking Quick FISA Fix

  Published: August 14, 2007, 9:03 pm

  Tags: Fisa, Domestic Spying, Harry Reid, Senate

  There was no surprise today when Dana Perino, speaking on behalf the White House at today's press gaggle, declared the following with respect to the recently passed FISA bill: We are going to have some fights on our hands; we know that. We are going to be asking for the FISA law that was just modernized last week, and which the President signed

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• Domestic spying cases on tap today

  Published: August 15, 2007, 1:07 pm

  Tags: Fisa, Warrantless Wiretapping, Domestic Spying, Nsa

  controversial spying program, including the monitoring that came to be publicly known as the Terrorist Surveillance Program. [Today], a three-judge panel will hear arguments on whether the case, which may provide the clearest indication yet of how the spying program has worked, can go forward. So far, evidence in the case suggests

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• How Mueller's notes implicate Gonzo in obstruction

  Published: August 17, 2007, 3:34 pm

  Tags: Alberto Gonzales, John Ashcroft, Domestic Spying, Nsa, James Comey, Robert Mueller

  Plenty of buzz today surrounding the release of FBI Director Robert Mueller's (heavily redacted) notes regarding the midnight raid on John Ashcroft's hospital room. But before I get to what the buzz is and what it reveals, just one quick note on part of the WaPo coverage of the story: Comey had precipitated the confrontation by informing the

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• The New York Times, Cliffs Notes edition

  Published: August 17, 2007, 10:37 pm

  Tags: New York Times, Fisa, Domestic Spying, Nsa, Wiretapping

  Waldo Jaquith teaches you How to Read The New York Times: "Black is white"; no, it’s black. I love this: The White House maintained Monday that the surveillance measure signed into law by President Bush over the weekend did not give the government any sweeping new powers to eavesdrop on Americans without court warrants. [...] The new

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• On Special Report, Hume told the truth on warrantless wiretaps, then corrected himself

  Published: August 22, 2007, 2:07 pm

  Tags: Brit Hume, Fox News Channel, Special Report Brit Hume, Domestic Spying, National Security Foreign Policy

  On the August 20 edition of Fox News' Special Report, host Brit Hume reported: "The Senate Judiciary Committee's latest deadline for the White House to comply with its subpoena for documents relating to warrantless -- allegedly warrantless wiretaps has come and gone." Contrary to Hume's assertion that the administration has

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• The Warrantless Debate Over Wiretapping

  Published: August 21, 2007, 11:35 pm

  Tags: Domestic Spying, Source Ny Times, Warrantless Wiretapping

  By PHILIP BOBBITT Published: August 22, 2007 CONGRESS just passed, and President Bush hurriedly signed, a law that amends the legal framework for the electronic interception of various kinds of communication with foreign sources. Almost immediately, commentators concluded that the law was unnecessary, that it authorized a lawless and

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• Checks and balances?

  Published: September 7, 2007, 11:48 am

  Tags: George W Bush, Warrantless Wiretapping, Domestic Spying, Data Mining, National Security Letters, Advise, Presidential Records Act

  FOIA suit over the other domestic spying programs. All of this must, unfortunately, also be considered in the context of Congressional maneuvering on Iraq as well. Why? Because next week Congress is set to hear testimony from General Petraeus and Ambassador Crocker which many observers believe will be misleading at best, and full of outright

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• Turning Military Satellites on You

  Published: September 12, 2007, 9:41 am

  Tags: Nao, Posse Comitatus Act, Domestic Spying, Satellites, National Applications Office, Civil Liberties, Military, Patriot Act, Department Of Homeland Security, Republicans, Terrorism

  to sneak a whopper of a new domestic spying program under the radar? (more…)

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• Patriots Caught In Domestic Spy Probe?

  Published: September 12, 2007, 3:07 pm

  Tags: Snark, New York Jets, New England Patriots, Domestic Spying, Satire

  Ok maybe not but hey, the coincidences are hard to ignore. Surely you’ve heard by now how a Patriots minion was nabbed with a camera Sunday in the Meadowlands, allegedly having videotaped the defensive signals being called out by the New York Jets, so they could be more readily pilfered by the New England offensive brain trust.Security is a

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• All Your Communications Are Belong To Us

  Published: September 13, 2007, 3:16 pm

  Tags: Intelligence, Security, Technology, Lawful Access, Secrecy, Privacy, Email, Civil Liberties, Canada, Domestic Spying, Patriot Act

  Via pogge (ProgBlogs reprazent!): Canada’s government appears to be just as scornful of civil liberties as that of our southerly neighbours. (more…)

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• US spy chief wants MORE power to spy on you

  Published: September 18, 2007, 9:38 am

  Tags: Domestic Spying

  The issue is kind of moot since the Republicans are willing to break the law in order to spy on innocent Americans anyway, so it really doesn't matter what the law says. I think back to a conversation I had over lunch with a well-educated America-friendly French professional last week in Paris. He asked me two simple questions: Does America

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• Expanded Spying on US Citizens Didn't Wait for FISA Bill

  Published: September 24, 2007, 12:39 pm

  Tags: Security, Gop, Fbi, Domestic Spying, Gwot, Patriot Act, Department Of Homeland Security, Civil Liberties, Fisa

  for years that all these spying tools - FISA, NSL’s, satellite networks, data-mining of telecommunications companies - that were explained and excused as a way to prevent terrorist attacks were going to end up becoming standard tools of ordinary police work even in the (extremely) unlikely event that the Feds kept their promises about

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