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Warrantless Wiretapping
The warrantless wiretapping case involves President Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and many other members of the Bush Administration. They are accused of eavesdropping on U.S. citizens during citizen's international phone calls without... [more]
The warrantless wiretapping case involves President Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and many other members of the Bush Administration. They are accused of eavesdropping on U.S. citizens during citizen's international phone calls without a warrant. A Judiciary Committee is investigating the charges and has issued a subpoena for documents related to President Bush's program.
President Barack Obama instructed Justice Department attorneys to argue last week in San Francisco before Federal District Judge Vaughn Walker, that he must toss out the Electronic Frontier Foundation's Shubert v. Bush lawsuit challenging the secret state's driftnet surveillance of Americans' electronic communications.
This latest move by the administration follows a pattern replicated countless times by Obama since assuming the presidency in...
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I’ve been poring over the trove of documents the Electronic Frontier Foundation has obtained detailing the long process by which the FISA Amendments Act—which substantially expanded executive power to conduct sweeping surveillance with little oversight—was hammered out between Hill staffers and lawyers at the Department of Justice and intelligence agencies. The really interesting stuff, of [...]
From feedburner.com
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- PATRIOT Act Debate Must Include Reform of Last Year's FISA Amendments Act (privacydigest.com)
President Barack Obama instructed Justice Department attorneys to argue last week in San Francisco before Federal District Judge Vaughn Walker, that he must toss out the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Shubert v. Bush lawsuit challenging the secret state’s driftnet surveillance of Americans’ electronic communications.
This latest move by the administration follows a pattern replicated countless times by [...]
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From dissidentvoice.org
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The George W. Bush administration expressed concern future administrations might not use the legal amnesty it wanted to give the nation’s telecommunication companies that were being sued for assisting the president’s warrantless, electronic wiretapping program, according to internal documents released Thursday. The documents, unearthed by the Electronic Frontier Foundation via a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit, also suggest the...
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From blogger.com
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Wired on what's in the FOIA'd fed wiretapping docs EFF released yesterday: "The George W. Bush administration expressed concern future administrations might not use the legal amnesty it wanted to give the nation's telecommunication companies that were being sued for assisting the president's warrantless, electronic wiretapping program."...
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From boingboing.net
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The Electronic Frontier Foundation has obtained documents that
detail the behind-the-scenes negotiations between US government
agencies regarding illegal telecom surveillance.
"The documents include drafts of legislation and
communications between Congress and the Department of
Justice (DOJ) and the Office of the Director of National
Intelligence (ODNI) about amendments to the Foreign
Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). They were released...
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From lwn.net
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WASHINGTON — The Justice Department invoked the state secrets privilege Friday to try to stop a lawsuit over Bush-era wiretapping – the first time the Obama administration has done so under its new policy on such cases.
Attorney General Eric Holder announced the decision in a California lawsuit challenging the warrantless wiretapping program begun after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
Under the state secrets privilege, the...
From huffingtonpost.com
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- Obama administration seeks to block wiretap suit (thenewstribune.com)
- "Obama administration: Toss wiretap lawsuit." (howappealing.law.com)
- Obama administration: Toss warrantless wiretap lawsuit (pottstownmercury.com)
Senators Chris Dodd (D-CT), Patrick Leahy (D-VT), Russ Feingold (D-WI), and Jeff Merkley (D-OR) will introduce introduce a bill which eliminates retroactive immunity for telecommunications companies that allegedly participated in President Bush's warrantless wiretapping program. "Granting retroactive immunity to companies that went along with the illegal warrantless wiretapping program was unjustified and undermined the rule of law," Feingold...
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From prorev.com
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President Bush's top political adviser, deputy White House chief of staff Karl Rove, tells a meeting of the Republican National Committee that the warrantless wiretapping controversy (see and ) can be used to boost Republicans' election chances in the 2006 midterm elections. Republicans should emphasize that the wiretapping proves that Bush is willing to do whatever it takes to defeat terrorism and keep Americans safe. Critics of the program...
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From historycommons.org
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Rein In Government Spying: Via EFF.org Updates.
Last week, ten US Senators introduced the perfect vehicle for reform of the surveillance powers in the PATRIOT Act, as well as the much broader and more dangerous FISA Amendments Act (FAA), the warrantless surveillance law that was passed by Congress last summer.
The new bill, called the JUSTICE Act, would add essential new checks and balances to a broad range of surveillance powers. In...
From privacydigest.com
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- Rein in Government Spying (eff.org)
Obama Lied Bush Spied Button
Barack Obama supported the FISA Amendments Act for Bush
Linked from: irregulartimes.com
