Warrantless Surveillance

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An Example to All the World

Andrew Kimbrell | Posted 09.27.2009 | World

Read More: Warrantless Wiretapping, Assassination, Bush Administration Torture, Democracy, Death Threats, Warrantless Surveillance, Pakistan, Torture, World News

I entered my cab and began a conversation with my driver, a middle aged man of my vintage who informed me he was of Pakistani descent.

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Obama's New Counterterrorism Message Is Good, But the Messenger Has Problems

Frank Naif | Posted 09.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Dni, Cia, Warrantless Surveillance, Counterterrorism, Obama Counterterrorism, John Brennan, Director of National Intelligence, CIA Torture, Terrorist Surveillance Program, John Brennan Cia, Torture, Domestic Spying, Politics News

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.

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Setting the Record Straight on Warrantless Wiretapping Program

Sen. Dianne Feinstein | Posted 08.31.2009 | Politics

Read More: Warrantless Wiretapping, NSA Wiretapping, Michael Hayden, Nsa, Warrantless Surveillance, Domestic Spying, Politics News

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.

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Secrecy Sacrificing National Security

Shahid Buttar | Posted 07.11.2009 | Politics

Our nation's most notorious criminals violate our most fundamental laws and remain not only free, but actively engaged in influencing our national security policies.

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Justifications for Torture: You've Heard the Rest, Now Here's the Best

Russ Wellen | Posted 05.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Ksm, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Warrantless Surveillance, Bush Administration, Dick Cheney, Torture, Politics News

The obsessive pursuit of information has traditionally been the mark of a regime that rules by force and sees enemies at every turn.

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Correcting the Record on Dawn Johnsen's Record

Neil Kinkopf | Posted 05.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Office of Legal Counsel, Obama Office of Legal Counsel, Warrantless Surveillance, Johnsen, Mirengoff, Guantanamo, Dawn Johnsen, Gitmo, Politics News

Dawn Johnsen is an outstanding choice to lead the Office of Legal Counsel. It is not surprising that her critics have resorted to basing their arguments on fiction.

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Sharing Tea Bags with Right Wing Extremists

Bob Cesca | Posted 05.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Warrantless Wiretapping, Tax Day Tea Party, Wingnuts, Warrantless Surveillance, Terrorism, Homeland Security, Glenn Beck, Right Wing, Fisa, Michelle Malkin, Politics News

Whether intentional or not, the talkers and bloggers who appear to be driving the post-Bush crazy train have opened up the conservative tent to some pretty unsavory and dangerous characters.

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Meet the new Boss. Same as the old Boss?

Mark Jeffrey | Posted 04.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Warrantless Wiretapping, Warrantless Surveillance, Barack Obama, Obama Transition, Politics News

We were told the change had come. So we held up the iconic blue-and-red signs that read, "Hope." But nowadays, it's looking more like, "Meet the new Boss. Same as the old Boss."

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Memos Provide Blueprint for Police State

Marjorie Cohn | Posted 04.09.2009 | Home

Read More: Jay Bybee, John Yoo, War on Terror, Warrantless Surveillance, Torture Memos, Torture, Home News

According to the reasoning in these memos, Congress has no role to check and balance the executive. That is the definition of a police state.

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Our Responsibility

Rep. John Conyers | Posted 03.03.2009 | Politics

Read More: John Conyers, Warrantless Surveillance, House Judiciary Chairman John Conyers, Cia, Blue Ribbon Commission, Interrogation, Torture, Politics News

If we move on now without fully documenting and acknowledging the betrayal of our values under the Bush administration, we cannot help but validate all that has gone on before.

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A Former FBI Agent Joins the ACLU -- and Finds Symmetry in Opposition

Joshuah Bearman | Posted 01.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: Data Mining, Aclu, Fbi, Fisa, Warrantless Surveillance, Bill Richardson, Domestic Spying, Politics News

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.

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Oh, Sweet Cynthia, Silence Thy Siren Song!

Russ Wellen | Posted 07.23.2008 | Politics

Read More: Third Party, Fisa, Cynthia McKinney, Warrantless Surveillance, Wasting Vote, Faith-Based Initiatives, Barack Obama, Politics News

I refuse to be guilt-tripped into thinking I was complicit in Gore's loss, but if I declined to vote for Obama and he lost, no matter how far right of center he leans in the coming weeks, there's no way I could shake off the blame this time.

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Obama and the Progressive Base

Norman Solomon | Posted 07.18.2008 | Politics

Read More: Iran, Bill of Rights, Democratic National Convention, David Mendell, Martin Luther King Jr., Fisa, Iraq, Constitutional Law, Warrantless Surveillance, Barack Obama, Fourth Amendment, Politics News

A reasonably evenhanded biography of Barack Obama, published last year, describes him as "an exceptionally gifted politician who, throughout his ...

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FISA Fight: Attack Of The Epic Failure

Martin Bosworth | Posted 07.17.2008 | Politics

Read More: Mike McConnell, Government Surveillance, Politics, FISA Bill, Obama, Warrantless Surveillance, Barack Obama, Wiretapping, Fisa, Politics News

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.

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Are Progressives Making Too Big A Deal Out Of FISA?

Matthew Yglesias | Posted 07.16.2008 | Politics

Read More: George Bush, Surveillance Bill, Warrantless Wiretapping, Wiretapping, Netroots, Fisa, Warrantless Surveillance, Politics News

Scott wonders if people are making too big a deal out of FISA: While I understand there are dozens of real policy difference to disagree with Pre...

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What Every American Needs to Know (and Do) About FISA Before Tuesday

Tim Ferriss | Posted 07.15.2008 | Politics

Read More: Fisa, Daniel Ellsberg, Barack Obama, Warrantless Surveillance, Terrorism, Politics News

July 8th could mark the beginning of official condoning of warrantless surveillance of law-abiding citizens in the US. I am not an alarmist and believe in qualified surveillance with process -- this is different.

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Obama Network Organizes and Revolts Over Spying

Ari Melber | Posted 07.07.2008 | Politics

Read More: Mybo, Organizing, Warrantless Surveillance, Meetup, Ohio, Surveillance, Spying, Fisa, Barack Obama, Technoloy, Politics News

Barack Obama tapped his sizeable grassroots network on Saturday, coordinating over 4,000 "Unite for Change" meetups across the country through the cam...

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Obama and Telecom Immunity: The Importance of Pushing

Bill Scher | Posted 07.05.2008 | Politics

Read More: Warrantless Wiretapping, Obama Fisa Bill, Warrantless Surveillance, Obama 2008, Fisa, Obama Fisa Compromise, Telecoms, Telecom Immunity, Barack Obama, Politics News

Obama's recent statement on the new surveillance bill serves as a reminder that he is a politician. Not in either a negative or positive sense. It's just a plain fact.

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I'll Trade You the 2nd Amendment for the 4th

Cenk Uygur | Posted 07.04.2008 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, Warrantless Wiretapping, Second Amendment, Constitution, Fourth Amendment, Justice Scalia, Gun Rights, Bill of Rights, 2nd Amendment, Warrantless Surveillance, Surveillance, 4th Amendment, Supreme Court Guns, Heller Decision, FISA Bill, Heller vs. Dc, Fisa, Politics News

If the Bush administration releases the fourth amendment that it is currently holding hostage, I'm happy to consider the Supreme Court decision on the second amendment final and decisive.

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In the Theater of the Obtuse

Leslie Harris | Posted 07.01.2008 | Politics

Read More: 9/11, Government, Surveillance, Fisa, Warrantless Surveillance, Wiretapping, Politics News

The new FISA bill makes U.S. citizens' most private conversations when communicating with people abroad rendered more vulnerable to eavesdropping without adequate judicial oversight. Some in Congress see this as a compromise.

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2001 DOJ Memo Justified Warrantless Surveillance

AP | PAMELA HESS and LARA JAKES JORDAN | Posted 04.10.2008 | Politics

Read More: Department of Justice, DOJ Memo, John Yoo, Warrantless Surveillance, Warrantless Wiretapping, Politics News

WASHINGTON — For at least 16 months after the Sept. 11 terror attacks in 2001, the Bush administration believed that the Constitution's protecti...

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Alarmist Lede Drives Times Wiretap Story

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 03.28.2008 | 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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Court Rejects ACLU Challenge to Wiretaps

AP | MARK SHERMAN | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: Government Surveillance, Supreme Court, Warrantless Wiretapping, Conservative Supreme Court Justices, Warrantless Surveillance, Telephone Companies Surveillance, Wiretapping, Politics News

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 _ ...

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Wiretap Law Expires As Dems Stand Up To Bush

TPMmuckraker | Paul Kiel | Posted 03.28.2008 | 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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