Warrantless Wiretapping

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Update: Sending Your Obama Money to Feingold

Bob Ostertag | Posted 07.16.2008 | Politics

Read More: Barack Obama on Fisa, Warrantless Wiretapping, Politics News, Obama on Fisa, Obama National Security, Obama FISA, Obama Netroots, Obama Fisa Compromise, Obama Blogs, Barack Obama, Politics News

My interest is not to derail Obama's campaign from within, but to keep a place at the table for his activist base.

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Uprising In Florida: Meet Doug Tudor

Howie Klein | Posted 07.16.2008 | Politics

Read More: Adam Putnam, Retroactive Immunity, Warrantless Wiretapping, Florida, Alan Grayson, Doug Tudor, Politics News

Doug Tutor, 20 year naval veteran, is challenging the wingnut Adam Putnam in Florida. The cowardly Democratic Establishment, which prefers Republican-lite candidates, is trying to ignore his grassroots race.

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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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A Powerful, Easy Way to Tell Obama to Get FISA Right

Bob Ostertag | Posted 07.15.2008 | Politics

Imagine how inspired you would have been if, instead of turning and running, Obama interrupted his campaign schedule to lead the filibuster against the FISA legislation.

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Coaching Up Obama Da Bears' Way

Art Brodsky | Posted 07.15.2008 | Politics

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By backing off and sitting back, Obama has given the press a ready-made story line the Republicans are all to eager to exploit.

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Obama, FISA and the Netroots

Bob Ostertag | Posted 07.14.2008 | Politics

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It is one thing for a presumptive nominee to adjust policy positions to reach out to constituencies he wants to bring in to his coalition. Warrantless wiretapping has no constituency.

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My Position On FISA

Barack Obama | Posted 07.11.2008 | Politics

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Some of you may decide that my FISA position is a deal breaker. That's ok. But I think it is worth pointing out that our agreement on the vast majority of issues that matter outweighs the differences we may have.

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Why We Don't Mind Uncle Sam Tapping Our Phones

Joel Schwartzberg | Posted 07.11.2008 | Living

I guess it makes more sense to celebrate our freedom from government tyranny and interference before we give them the okay to monitor our private conversations. No one wants to be a party pooper.

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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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Feingold Makes Case Against Telecom Immunity

Posted 07.03.2008 | Politics

Read More: Telecom Immunity, Warrantless Wiretapping, Dodd Feingold Filibuster, Surveillance, Obama Telecom Immunity, Politics News

Sen. Russ Feingold (D-WI) blasted the surveillance compromise bill on the Senate floor today: This legislation has been billed as a compromise betwe...

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Dems Who Flipped On Telecom Immunity Got More Telecom Cash

Politico | Posted 07.03.2008 | Politics

Read More: Telecom Immunity, Warrantless Wiretapping, Surveillance, Fisa, Restroactive Immunity, Democrats FISA, Politics News

House Democrats who flipped their votes to support retroactive immunity for telecom companies in last week's FISA bill took thousands of dollars more ...

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Dodd And Feingold Will Filibuster Telecom Immunity

Posted 07.02.2008 | Politics

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Senators Chris Dodd (D-CT) and Russ Feingold (D-WI) released the following statement today in response to the announcement that the Senate this week w...

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Obama Backs Bill Giving Immunity To Telecoms

The Huffington Post | Posted 06.28.2008 | Politics

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Sen. Barack Obama's campaign released a statement Friday afternoon saying that while Obama opposes amnesty for telecom firms that spied on Americans, ...

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Are the Democrats Worse Than the Republicans?

Cenk Uygur | Posted 06.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: FISA Bill, President Bush, Democrats, Capitulation, Telecom Immunity, Republicans, Warrantless Wiretapping, Law Breaking, Watergate, Democratic Congress, Congress, Weak Congress, Fisa, Politics News

President Bush is the most unpopular president of all time -- literally. But if you keep losing to the worst, what does that make you?

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Bush Gives Dems STDs

Marty Kaplan | Posted 06.28.2008 | Politics

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Nancy Pelosi, Stenny Hoyer and the blue dogs they lie down with have been rewarded with the same herpetic embrace that is turning John McCain into a Republican cootie incubator.

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McCain Flip-Flops Again, Now Supports Bush-Style Warrantless Wiretapping

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 06.12.2008 | Politics

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Back in December 2007, before the primary season began, when it didn't yet look as if he was going to be the Republican nominee, John McCain believed ...

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2001 DOJ Memo Justified Warrantless Surveillance

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

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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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GOP To Telecoms: Give Us Cash For Advocating Wiretaps

Roll Call/WaPo | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: Fisa, Warrantless Wiretapping, GOP Telecoms Fundraising, Politics News

Roll Call reports: With the House Democrats' refusal to grant retroactive immunity to phone companies -- stalling the rewrite of the warrantless wire...

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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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White House Backtracks On Lost Intelligence Claims

LA Times | Josh Meyer | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: Government Surveillance, Nsa, Warrantless Wiretapping, Politics News

A day after warning that potentially critical terrorism intelligence was being lost because Congress had not finished work on a controversial espionag...

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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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