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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... [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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Originally posted Fri Nov 23, 2007 at 10:37:45 AM CST - from the commentaries since it's worth a better look with the gravity of the current situation Contrary to Congressional flacks and the irresponsible corporate media, there is no such thing as legal immunity for the illegal participation of...
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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 just found a copy of the prepared, approved text of Bill Richardson’s remarks for the DNC...
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From irregulartimes.com
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Congress voted earlier this year to give retroactive immunity to telecoms that had participated in the government s warrantless wiretapping program, a move that was a huge victory for the telcos and a big setback for the related cases that were all pending at the time. One of those cases was a...
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On July 10, 2008, P.L. 110-261, entitled the FISA Amendments Act of 2008, was signed into law.
- Blogs Fail To Stand Up On FISA Amendments Act (irregulartimes.com)
Congress passed H.R. 6304, the FISA Amendments Act, in July and President Bush signed it quickly into law, praising the legislation as a necessary if much-delayed updating of the federal authority to monitor foreign electronic communications. The bill also provided...
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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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A federal appeals court on Thursday declined to rule on whether lawsuits seeking to target President George W. Bush's warrantless wiretapping are covered by secrecy laws or can be challenged in court.
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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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In a two-sentence opinion released today, the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit finally acted on the long-stalled warrantless wiretapping lawsuit , Hepting v. AT&T . The three-judge panel that heard ...
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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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A federal appeals court on Thursday declined to rule on whether lawsuits seeking to target President George W. Bush's warrantless wiretapping are covered by secrecy laws or can be challenged in court.
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A federal appeals court on Thursday declined to rule on whether lawsuits seeking to target President George W. Bush's warrantless wiretapping are covered by secrecy laws or can be challenged in court.
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More than a year after hearing oral arguments, a federal appeals court has declined to rule on whether lawsuits targeting the president's warrantless wiretapping of Americans are too secret to be challenged in ...
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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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Sam Brownback expressed fear that "foreign-owned hotels in China face the prospect of 'severe retaliation' if they refuse to install government software that can spy on Internet use by hotel guests coming to ...
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