Counterterrorism Chief Urges Congress To Renew Surveillance Law
WASHINGTON -- The federal government's top official in charge of analyzing intelligence warned Congress Wednesday not to "wait until the last minute" ...
WASHINGTON -- The federal government's top official in charge of analyzing intelligence warned Congress Wednesday not to "wait until the last minute" ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Andrea Stone | Posted 05.04.2012
The federal government submitted 1,745 applications in 2011 to a secret intelligence court to investigate -- mostly through wiretapping -- suspected c...
John W. Whitehead | Posted 05.27.2012
Can freedom in the United States continue to flourish and grow in an age when the physical movements, individual purchases, conversations, and meetings of every citizen are constantly under surveillance by private companies and government agencies?
Adam Winkler | Posted 01.23.2012
When a UC Davis police officer took out a can of pepper spray and calmly doused a group of passive, nonviolent Occupy protesters sitting on a campus pathway, he should have known that all of the world would witness his horrific act.
Susan Landau | Posted 12.03.2011
A FOIA request by the ACLUhas revealed a Department of Justice memo showing Verizon keeps tracking data for "a rolling year," T-Mobile officially for 4-6 months, but "really a year or more," AT&T/Cingular since July 2008, Sprint for 18-24 months. That's not all.
AP | GENE JOHNSON | Posted 10.31.2011
SEATTLE — Lawyers for civil liberties groups asked a federal appeals court Wednesday to revive two groups of lawsuits claiming the government ha...
Posted 10.25.2011
Eight men and one woman were charged with involuntary sexual servitude of a minor and human trafficking Wednesday following an 18-month undercover inv...
Susan Landau | Posted 09.20.2011
It is quite ironic that the same week the news about the News of the World hacking was finally breaking, Congress held a hearing on data retention, the proposal that Internet service providers be required to retain customer information.
Susan Landau | Posted 10.26.2011
Providing data in the Wiretap Report is not simply compliance with 40-year-old legislation. That information is what allows us to understand what's true about this highly intrusive and secretive investigative technique and what's not.
HuffPost Radio | Posted 05.25.2011
AP | MICHAEL TARM | Posted 05.25.2011
CHICAGO — Attorneys for former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich asked a federal judge on Monday to bar prosecutors from playing any FBI wiretap recordi...
Jameel Jaffer | Posted 05.25.2011
Government secrecy is increasingly the norm. At the same time, government surveillance is pervasive, reversing the proper relationship between a democratic government and its citizens.
Susan Landau | Posted 05.25.2011
The FBI's current proposed rewrite of wiretap law creates serious security risks.
New York Times | Posted 05.25.2011
Law enforcement and counterterrorism officials, citing lapses in compliance with surveillance orders, are pushing to overhaul a federal law that requi...
Susan Landau | Posted 10.26.2011
There is no question that bad actors, from criminals and terrorists use the network to conduct their activities. But better protections for transactional information needs to be part of new wiretap law.
wired.com | Posted 05.25.2011
The number of wiretaps authorized by state and federal judges in criminal investigations jumped 26 percent from 2008 to 2009, according to a report re...
HuffingtonPost.com | Dan Froomkin | Posted 05.25.2011
Wednesday's landmark court ruling that the Bush administration's warrantless surveillance program was flatly illegal is, unfortunately, not only of hi...
Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011
Is your email private? You may think it is, but you may also be surprised how easy it is for law enforcement to access it without a warrant.
AP | PAUL ELIAS | Posted 05.25.2011
SAN FRANCISCO — In a repudiation of the Bush administration's now-defunct terrorist surveillance effort, a federal judge ruled Wednesday that go...
Stuart Connelly | Posted 05.25.2011
We live in a country where privacy is melting away bit by bit. In the interest of what? Some will say if you've got nothing to hide, why worry? But the truth is actually the inverse of that argument.
Tom Shachtman | Posted 05.25.2011
The White House tapes reveal Haig as the ultimate sycophant, urging Nixon to smite the enemy in Vietnam, unleash the bombs, stand tough against the Soviets, and, not incidentally, to keep Kissinger in his place.
Gary Hart | Posted 05.25.2011
Let's get one thing straight. If you are angry at Barack Obama, or any member of Congress, you are angry at your fellow citizens who voted for them. There is a name for this process: we call it democracy.
AP | DEVLIN BARRETT | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON — The Justice Department invoked the state secrets privilege Friday to try to stop a lawsuit over Bush-era wiretapping – the fi...
Lisa Derrick | Posted 05.25.2011
Courrielche has not been been forthcoming about how he came to have the recorded conversations, which may be a way of invoking his right to self-protection, since recording that call was illegal in several states.
L.A. Times | David G. Savage | Posted 05.25.2011
Reporting from Washington - The Patriot Act -- a favorite tool in the George W. Bush administration's fight against terrorism -- may be renamed later...
HuffingtonPost.com | Andrea Stone | Posted 05.16.2012