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Warrantless Wiretapping

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... [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.

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This has been a bad week for President Bush's warrantless wiretapping program. First, a government study reported that data-mining is actually a hindrance in the fight against terrorism.  
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Today The FISA AMENDMENTS ACT OF 2008 May be Passed by the U.S. Senate. Compare provisions in "Hitler's Laws" with U.S. FISA AMENDMENTS ACT OF 2008: Note similar manner the Act, HR 6304 suspends the U.S. ...  
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I have the feeling Bill Richardson pulled a clever quickie on the Democrats. The only speaker to address the issue of warrantless wiretapping to domestically spy on American citizens during the entire Democratic National Convention was Governor Bill Richardson of New Mexico. I have found a copy...  
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The government on Friday moved to dismiss the ongoing warrantless wiretap lawsuits against telecoms, invoking the retroactive amnesty clause of the FISA Amendments Act.  
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The Electronic Frontier Foundation, a California-based privacy group, filed a lawsuit against the National Security Agency (NSA), President Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, and several other administration officials on behalf of AT&T; customers in an effort to stop the government's warrantless...  
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On Wednesday, Antifascist Calling reported on moves by the Department of Justice to seek blanket immunity for AT&T under provisions of the disgraceful FISA Amendments Act (FAA). If approved by Judge Vaughn Walker, the presiding magistrate hearing the landmark Hepting v. AT&T lawsuit in federal...  
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Late Friday night, the Government started the formal process for retroactive immunity for the telecommunications companies sued by EFF and others for their involvement in the warrantless surveillance of millions of ordinary Americans. The immunity is a key part of the unconstitutional FISA...  
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When the Congress passed the Protect America Act last summer and the FISA Amendments Act this summer, they replaced the Constitution’s system of balanced power between three branches of government with checks and balances between them with a system of trust. Trust sounds like a good thing, but...  
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Telcos this year landed immunity from prosecution for warrantless wiretapping on behalf of the Bush administration.  
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The Electronic Frontier Foundation has filed a lawsuit on Thursday against the National Security Agency, President Bush, vice president Dick Cheney and several other members of the Bush administration on behalf of AT&T; customers, in order to stop the government's warrantless wiretapping program...  
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"Just a day before the government will try again to get AT&T out of court for allegedly helping with President Bush's warrantless wiretapping of Americans, the scrappy civil liberties group suing the telecom giant filed another suit -- this one against the government and top officials involved in...  
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When Nancy Pelosi appeared at the Netroots Nation conference today, people questioned her decision as Speaker of the House to let the H.R. 6304, the FISA Amendments Act, come to the floor. Speaker Pelosi’s answers were anything but respectful to the intelligence and attention span of those who...  
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In June of 2008, 105 Democrats joined 188 Republicans in voting to pass the FISA Amendments Act. The new law doesn’t just negate your right to privacy under the Fourth Amendment; it also grants retroactive legal immunity to corporations like AT&T that violated the law by giving the government...  
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Exclusive: Widespread cell phone location snooping by NSA? - Via Surveillance State - CNET News : If you thought that the National Security Agency's warrantless wiretapping was limited to AT&T, Verizon and ...  
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Get FISA Right, the group of socially-networked civil libertarians that formed to pressure Barack Obama on warrantless wiretapping and telecom immunity, is turning its Argus eyes toward John McCain and his ...  
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