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Protect America Act

Skirting the Law Does Not Make Us Safer

Coleen Rowley | Posted 03.30.2008 | Politics

Read More: Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), 9-11 Commission, Intelligence Oversight Board, Protect America Act, Terror Watch List Inaccuracies, Michael Mukasey, FISA Bill, 9/11, 9/11 Commission, Fisa, Politics News
Coleen Rowley

There were other significant pre 9-11 dots that the Bush administration was not eager to share with the public, and which the Senate Intelligence Committee conveniently swept under the rug.

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Jason Linkins

Alarmist Lede Drives Times Wiretap Story

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 02.27.2008 | Politics

Read More: Warrantless Wiretapping, Fisa, New York Times, FISA Bill, Protect America Act, Warrantless Surveillance, Wiretapping, Politics News

The New York Time's Eric Lichtblau is all a flutter today because, as his headline reads, "In Wiretap's Stead, Uncertainty." Harrowing, terrifying, "...

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The Old Flimflammer Keeps on Trucking

Robert Davey | Posted 02.22.2008 | Politics

Read More: FISA Bill, Fisa, Protect America Act, Interrogation, Politics News
Robert Davey

The PAA does not do a thing to protect America that FISA did not already do.

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Bush Calls Lawmakers 'Irresponsible'

AP | TERENCE HUNT | Posted 02.16.2008 | Politics

Read More: Dems Protect America Act, Bush Fisa, Silvestre Reyes, Dems FISA, Bush Intelligence, Nancy Pelosi, George W. Bush, Dems Spy Law, Bush Spy Law, Bush Intelligence Law, Protect America Act, Bush Protect America Act, Politics News

WASHINGTON — President Bush said Saturday that lawmakers' failure to renew an eavesdropping law will make it more difficult to track terrorists ...

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Wiretap Law Expires As Dems Stand Up To Bush

TPMmuckraker | Paul Kiel | Posted 02.15.2008 | Politics

Read More: Warrantless Wiretapping, FISA Bill, Bush Fear-Mongering, Fisa, Protect America Act, Warrantless Surveillance, Wiretapping, Politics News

What happened? The administration did everything right. The invocation of "countless American lives" hanging in the balance, the specter of terrorists...

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St. Veto's Day?

Jayne Lyn Stahl | Posted 02.07.2008 | Home

Read More: Nsa, Civil Liberties, Warrantless Wiretapping, Veto, Fisa, Protect America Act, Warrantless Surveillance, Home News
Jayne Lyn Stahl

This president's concept of the veto is not unlike Reagan's notion of detente, i.e. the threat is more potent than the thing itself.

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The Senate Should Say "No" to Telecom Immunity

Sen. Jeff Merkley | Posted 02.05.2008 | Politics

Read More: Oregon, Fisa, U.S. Senate, Protect America Act, Gordon Smith, Merkley, Retroactive Immunity, Telecoms, Telecom Immunity, Politics News
Sen. Jeff Merkley

For the last several years, the telecoms have turned over the records of millions of Americans. These records were released under no warrant or judicial oversight.

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State of the Bully Address

Jayne Lyn Stahl | Posted 01.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: Nsa, First Amendment, AIDS Condoms, George W. Bush, State of the Union Address, Protect America Act, State of the Union, Bush State of the Union, Politics News
Jayne Lyn Stahl

The so-called "Protect America Act" was not designed to protect this country, but instead those corporate cronies whose ongoing sodomy of the First Amendment President Bush enthusiastically endorses.

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FISA Follies

Robert Davey | Posted 01.22.2008 | Politics

Read More: Patriot Act, Cia, Illegal Surveillance, Fisa, Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, Surveillance, Protect America Act, Paa, Politics News
Robert Davey

The Bush people are far too canny to risk actually meddling with the foremost national security law on the books, one that had worked effectively for 22-odd years before the Sept. 11 attacks.

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Reid Considers Extending Protect America Act For One Month

The Hill | Manu Raju | Posted 12.19.2007 | Politics

Read More: Telecoms Immunity, Warrantless Wiretapping, Senator Harry Reid, FISA Bill, FISA Legislation, Warrantless Surveillance, Wiretapping, Dianne Feinstein, Retroactive Immunity, Harry Reid, Warrantless Spying, Chris Dodd, Fisa, Protect America Act, Telecoms, Telecom Immunity, Dodd Filibuster, Dodd Telecom Amnesty, Politics News

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) said Tuesday he would seek to extend a controversial interim wiretapping law through February to avoid the ea...

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Mr. Dodd Goes to Washington

Scott Thill | Posted 12.17.2007 | Politics

Read More: Christopher Dodd, Chris Dodd, Dodd, Protect America Act, 2008 Election, Politics News
Scott Thill

While campaigning hard in Iowa like the rest of the hopefuls, Dodd actually came back to Congress to do his job and filibuster the hell out of the offensively named Protect America Act.

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Congress Set to Legitimize Warrantless Wiretapping

Caroline Fredrickson | Posted 11.13.2007 | Politics

Read More: Nsa, Warrantless Wiretapping, FISA Bill, FISA Legislation, Wiretapping, 4th Amendment, Fisa, Protect America Act, Fisa Law, Cogress Wiretapping, Politics News
Caroline Fredrickson

Customers who've had their rights violated should get their day in court. We'll never learn the facts about the warrantless wiretapping program if the telecoms are let off the hook.

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The Protect Who Act?

Jayne Lyn Stahl | Posted 10.21.2007 | Politics

Read More: National Security Agency, Protect America Act, Spying Bill, Politics News
Jayne Lyn Stahl

Would you grant immunity unless you thought that a crime was committed? The Constitution isn't the only casualty of the "war on terror;" common sense is, too.

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