Government Surveillance
FISA Fight: Attack Of The Epic Failure
Martin Bosworth | Posted 07.09.2008 | Politics
This was a battle the Democrats absolutely could have won. Instead, they knuckled under and granted a corrupt and authoritarian president one of his greatest victories.
Kneejerk Reactions
Mahmood N. Al-Yousif | Posted 04.14.2008 | Politics
Divine intervention couldn't have come at a more fortuitous time for the government to start to re-impose another heinous State Security Law, the very...
White House Backtracks On Lost Intelligence Claims
LA Times | Josh Meyer | Posted 02.24.2008 | Politics
A day after warning that potentially critical terrorism intelligence was being lost because Congress had not finished work on a controversial espionag...
Court Rejects ACLU Challenge to Wiretaps
AP | MARK SHERMAN | Posted 02.19.2008 | Politics
WASHINGTON — An attempt to blast a crippled U.S. spy satellite out of the sky using a Navy heat-seeking missile _ possibly on Wednesday night _ ...
FISA Is Ratings Poison
Marty Kaplan | Posted 02.15.2008 | Politics
The power of the president's fear-mongering derives from the same media ecosystem that empowers all terrorists, whether at Ground Zero or Cole Hall at Northern Illinois University.
Bush Admin Plan To Broaden Wiretapping Powers Gains Victory In Senate
New York Times | ERIC LICHTBLAU | Posted 01.24.2008 | Politics
A White House plan to broaden the National Security Agency's wiretapping powers won a key procedural victory in the Senate on Thursday, as backers def...
Stopping the Blank Check on Warrantless Spying
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.
Privacy vs. Security? Privacy.
Marc Rotenberg | Posted 11.09.2007 | Politics
We are being asked to become a weak nation that accepts surveillance without accountability that cannot defend both security and freedom.
Big Brother Is Listening to Your Cell Phone Calls
John W. Whitehead | Posted 11.08.2007 | Business
Our surveillance state is not unlike a boa constrictor in the way it operates. Before swallowing its prey whole, it slowly squeezes the life out of its victims.
Fighting Illegal Spying in the Senate Today
Ari Melber | Posted 11.08.2007 | Politics
Under Democratic control, Congress is doing even worse on illegal spying than the Republicans.
Uncle Sam on the Lam
Geoffrey R. Stone | Posted 11.05.2007 | Politics
Mr. Ashcroft seems to assume that patriotic Americans should give their government the benefit of the doubt and act compliantly.
Dodd Leads on Spying, Clinton & Obama Follow
Ari Melber | Posted 10.24.2007 | Politics
Obama and Clinton must show Democratic voters that they can effectively confront Harry Reid, reject Bush's veto threats and pass a strong intelligence bill with accountability and warrants -- not amnesty.
Vegas Becomes The Capital Of High-Tech Surveillance
Washington Post | Ellen Nakashima | Posted 10.21.2007 | Home
This city, famous for being America's playground, has also become its security lab. Like nowhere else in the United States, Las Vegas has embraced the...
Mukasey: Bush Can Ignore Surveillance Law
Washington Post | Dan Eggen and Paul Kane | Posted 10.18.2007 | Politics
Attorney general nominee Michael B. Mukasey suggested today that the president could ignore federal surveillance law if it infringes on his constituti...
Gov't Travel Records Include Notes On Personal Items, Reading Materials
Washington Post | Ellen Nakashima | Posted 09.22.2007 | Home
The U.S. government is collecting electronic records on the travel habits of millions of Americans who fly, drive or take cruises abroad, retaining da...
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MyFox New York | Kathy Carvajal | Posted 08.12.2008 | Home