Fighting the Unconstitutional Spying Law
The FISA bill goes further to extend the power of the executive to collect our communications than the president's original secret spying program. The Fourth Amendment was essentially eviscerated.
The FISA bill goes further to extend the power of the executive to collect our communications than the president's original secret spying program. The Fourth Amendment was essentially eviscerated.
Charlie Reina | Posted 07.10.2008 | Politics
We need to know why the president was so hot to do the tele-spying the way they did. Why go outside FISA? Why circumvent a law that already allowed them to tap all they wanted, effectively without restraint?
Dave Johnson | Posted 07.05.2008 | Politics
Despite what the LA Times said on Saturday, spying actually started a few weeks after Bush took office -- at a time when the administration was ignoring the terrorist threat.
Newsweek | Posted 06.26.2008 | Politics
A Bush administration program to expand domestic use of Pentagon spy satellites has aroused new concerns in Congress about possible civil-liberties ab...
Shahid Buttar | Posted 04.22.2008 | Politics
Controversial government programs are theoretically restrained by checks and balances, but neither Congress nor the courts have a way to check a secret program.
Washington Post | Spencer Hsu | Posted 04.12.2008 | Politics
The Bush administration said yesterday that it plans to start using the nation's most advanced spy technology for domestic purposes soon, rebuffing ch...
Robert Davey | Posted 04.09.2008 | Politics
I think I have to eat my own words, because it looks as if I did misread the Protect America Act. But in my defense I must say that the law is very confusing.
Max and the Marginalized | Posted 03.27.2008 | Politics
A song for the telecom companies that broke the law and complied with the administration's domestic spying program to play while they put you on hold.
Ari Melber | Posted 03.26.2008 | Politics
Will we maintain accountability, oversight and the rule of law while aggressively pursuing terrorists, or will we allow incumbent politicians to trade away our rights to increase their own power?
Ari Melber | Posted 03.04.2008 | Politics
Tuesday's Washington Post reports that House Democrats are close to granting all of President Bush's demands for more domestic spying powers and telecommunications amnesty, in exchange for, well, nothing.
John Seery | Posted 12.22.2007 | Media
Perhaps the L.A. Times editors should reacquaint themselves with the plain language of Fourth Amendment.
Jayne Lyn Stahl | Posted 12.18.2007 | Politics
How can any legislative branch make laws then grant immunity from breaking laws on the grounds of national security? After all, what is "national security" if not law enforcement?
Evan Frisch | Posted 12.04.2007 | Politics
Firefighters are now being told to add to their duties the constant search for signs of "hate or discontent with the United States." To the Bush administration, this initiative is an attempt to evade pesky restrictions imposed on law enforcement.
Rep. Rush Holt | Posted 11.16.2007 | Politics
When officials must establish before a court that they have reason to intercept communications, we get better intelligence than through indiscriminate collection and fishing expeditions.
David Sirota | Posted 10.18.2007 | Politics
The netroots is really going to have to figure out how to meld its bourgeois focus with the kitchen-table concerns of everyday, non-political-junkie Americans.
Associated Press | PAMELA HESS | Posted 10.02.2007 | Home
A former top lawyer for the Bush administration on Tuesday said that parts of the President Bush's much-criticized eavesdropping program were illegal....
Art Levine | Posted 09.26.2007 | Politics
Here's the latest news from an ACLU spokesperson about the fast-moving political developments that threaten your civil liberties, with a FISA bill that allows virtually unlimited warrantless wiretapping.
Art Levine | Posted 09.26.2007 | Politics
Citizens need to make their voices heard as soon as possible to derail a permanent FISA "fix" that could be worse than the six-month temporary legislation passed in August.
Associated Press | PAMELA HESS | Posted 09.10.2007 | Home
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Anthony D. Romero | Posted 07.12.2008 | Politics