The last thing we need is a bunch of self-appointed citizen snoops calling in to the cops with reports on every neighbor who looks or acts a little bit different.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jeff Muskus | Posted 10.06.2009 | Politics
The Senate GOP fundraising arm is soliciting donations by vowing to defeat Democrats who want to repeal the retroactive immunity granted last year to ...
Frank Naif | Posted 09.10.2009 | Politics
John Brennan's role as a top national security honcho in the Obama administration shows the limitations of Obama's "look to the future, not to the past" mantra.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein | Posted 08.31.2009 | Politics
Strong intelligence tools are necessary to keep us secure. But those tools must be transparent to Congress, subject to legal review from the Executive Branch, and fully consistent with the law.
Art Brodsky | Posted 07.25.2009 | Media
If the government opposes Internet filtering in Iran and opposes it in China, then it would be nice if our legislators and our government opposed it here, too.
Frank Naif | Posted 07.17.2009 | Politics
Does the federal government need to be involved in coordinating private sector cybersecurity? Perhaps, but only in a coordinating role.
Craig Newmark | Posted 01.09.2009 | Politics
There's more drama around the attempts by the current administration to protect people who might have spied illegally on everyday American citizens.
Joshuah Bearman | Posted 01.05.2009 | Politics
Mike German was a once-politically conservative crack undercover agent who has found a new home at the ACLU, where he uses his insider knowledge to hold his former employer's feet to the fire.
Shahid Buttar | Posted 12.12.2008 | Politics
If the crowds celebrating Obama's victory go home in 2009, his Administration will achieve disappointing results. The President-Elect will confront a variety of national and global crises.
Jake Brewer | Posted 11.23.2008 | Green
My co-worker, Josh's, most terrorizing activities? Helping pass landmark legislation like the Maryland Healthy Air Act and the Clean Car Bill.
AFP | Posted 11.14.2008 | Politics
The White House spokesperson Dana Perino said today that she couldn't speak to the accuracy of an ABC news report that came out last week citing misco...
ABC | BRIAN ROSS, VIC WALTER, and ANNA SCHECTER | Posted 11.09.2008 | Politics
Despite pledges by President George W. Bush and American intelligence officials to the contrary, hundreds of US citizens overseas have been eavesdropp...
Washington Post | Carrie Johnson | Posted 10.13.2008 | Politics
The Justice Department will unveil changes to FBI ground rules today that would put much more power into the hands of line agents pursuing leads on na...
Washington Post | Spencer S. Hsu and Carrie Johnson | Posted 09.16.2008 | Politics
The Justice Department has proposed a new domestic spying measure that would make it easier for state and local police to collect intelligence about A...
Paul Helmke | Posted 08.07.2008 | Politics
When the National Rifle Association asks its members for their next contribution, they might want to disclose how much of that money will be spent to spy on gun violence victims and their families.
Anthony D. Romero | Posted 07.20.2008 | Politics
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 07.18.2008 | 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 07.13.2008 | 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 07.04.2008 | 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 04.30.2008 | 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 04.20.2008 | 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...
Associated Press | PAMELA HESS | Posted 03.28.2008 | 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....
Associated Press | PAMELA HESS | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home
Bond, along with Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., sponsored the bill enacted last month. It was largely drawn from an 11-page proposal pushed by the Bush ...
Dave Lindorff | Posted 10.08.2009 | Local