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• Why Tap NSA Rather than FISA to Start the Search for Terrorists

  
  Joejolly's Weblog — Authority: 134
  Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) was first enacted in 1978 ( Public Law 95-511 ) and later amended by the Patriot Act. It is at the center of the controversy concerning domestic spying by the NSA. It was passed after revelations of massive domestic spying ...
  15 hours ago

• Dennis Moore A Sometime Progressive

  
  That's My Congress — Authority: 479
  In the current session of Congress, Dennis Moore has earned only a 46 percent progressive rating. That relatively low rating is due mostly to a failure to support important progressive pieces of legislation.
  18 hours ago

• What’s Missing from the EFF Document Dump: Whitehouse’s Declassification Requests

  
  Emptywheel — Authority: 728
  I’m still plugging away on the EFF Document Dump . But before I delve into the next chunk of emails, I want to note something that hasn’t, thus far, shown up in the document dump (and almost certainly should have been included in the communications between Congress and OLC): Two separate requests (or one extended ...
  18 hours ago

• An open letter to President Obama on the Patriot Act (DRAFT)

  
  Liminal states — Authority: 107
  Draft! Work in progress!  Feedback welcome! The open letter will be published Monday evening, and this will be one of many posts announcing it. Final version intended for Pam’s House Blend Dear President Obama, In response to Get FISA Right’s July 2008 Open Letter , you promised to run “a ...
  1 day ago

• EFF FOIA Working Thead, Three

  
  Emptywheel — Authority: 728
  Note: EFF has added one more set of documents–from the Civil Division . So if you think you’re done, you might not be, yet. This will be another working thread on the EFF FOIA Documents–I’ll be focusing on the Office of Legal Counsel documents. My text in this post deals with documents from the Office of ...
  3 days ago

• Crazy Pete Hoekstra’s NSA Dirty Work and Nidal Hasan

  
  Emptywheel — Authority: 728
  I’m almost ready to post my next working thread on the EFF documents . But pages 121 through 125 of the OLC2 set deserves its own post. It’s basically an email from Chris Donesa, a Republican HPSCI staffer, to a bunch of people at DNI, DOJ, and NSA who had been involved in the Protect America Act passage, ...
  4 days ago

• Who Diverted The Hasan Investigation Into Suspension?

  
  The Strata-Sphere — Authority: 599
  I have been writing extensively on the curious coincidence that after the Obama administration came into office it was not long before the ongoing investigation in Major Hasan was prematurely ended ( see all my previous posts here ). Each day new information comes to light deepening my suspicions that the liberally ...
  4 days ago

• Was Hasan Promoted And Ordered To Afghanistan As Bait?

  
  The Strata-Sphere — Authority: 599
  There are a number of disturbing yet reasonable scenarios that can be drawn from the Ft Hood Massacre by traitor and terrorist Major Hasan. My speculation has been centered around the political correctness dripping from the Obama administration and AG Eric Holder ( see here for all my posts to date ). But that is not ...
  6 days ago

• More Missed Dots On Hasan After Investigation Shut Down Prematurely

  
  The Strata-Sphere — Authority: 599
  More evidence someone made a horrific mistake in the Obama administration when they prematurely shut down the  Joint Terrorism Task Force investigation into Major Hasan, the traitor who massacred 13 people and an unborn child on 11/5/09: Colonel Anthony Febbo at Fort Hood reportedly told investigators he was twice ...
  6 days ago

• More Evidence Obama Administration Shut Down Connecting Hasan Dots

  
  The Strata-Sphere — Authority: 599
  There were plenty of warning lights flashing on Major Hasan, who killed 13 Americans and one unborn child in a terrorist massacre at Ft Hood. For example, here is a good list of what should have been discovered when the emails between Hasan and radical Imam al-Aulaqi operating in Yemen activated two task forces – ...
  1 week ago

• An Oldie, But A Goodie: The Democrat Contract With America

  
  The Strata-Sphere — Authority: 599
  Back in February 2006, as the country started to step away from President Bush and the GOP, I took a cue from a Rush Limbaugh thread about how the liberals wanted to surrender the war on terror and created a twisted variant of the 1994 GOP Contract with America and turned it into the  2006 Democrat Contract With al ...
  1 week ago

• Germany: US Data-Mining Violates European Human Rights

  
  Emptywheel — Authority: 728
  I’m sure John Brennan, data-miner-in-chief, is not happy about this : The new German justice minister says Berlin is not comfortable with an EU measure that would grant US authorities access to European banking data. Now it seems likely that the Germans may scupper the deal, which is supposed to be pushed ...
  1 week ago

• Obama Administration Is Not Being Straight With America Straight On Ft Hood Massacre

  
  The Strata-Sphere — Authority: 599
  For the last week I have been posting about my suspicions regarding the Ft Hood terrorist massacre and how the Obama administration seemed to be in full spin mode, as if they knew something horrible about the incident. The crux of my concerns have been the well established, far left positions held by AG Holder and ...
  1 week ago

• The “techie” side of “Getting It Right”

  
  PogoWasRight.org — Authority: 151
  Jim Burrows writes: The following posting is intended as part of the background information for a forthcoming Get FISA Right chat on the technological issues in “getting FISA right” or more generally balancing needed foreign intelligence gathering with the rights reserved and protected in the Constitution. We ...
  1 week ago

• Help Read Docs Revealing FISA Amendments Act Dealmaking

  
  That's My Congress — Authority: 479
  The EFF is requesting assistance in reading the documents and considering their relevance. Please go on over and take a look at the newly released papers.
  1 week ago

• Help Look Through Docs Revealing Negotiations For Spying Immunity

  
  Irregular Times: News Unfit for Print — Authority: 535
  The FISA Amendments Act was passed last year with the help of then-senator Barack Obama. Obama had pledged he would never vote for a bill to give telecommunications corporations immunity from prosecution for their part in an illegal and unconstitutional scheme to spy on the private electronic communications of ...
  1 week ago

• Harry Reid’s Poll: 67% Say Public Option “Most Important Aspect of Health Care Reform”

  
  Firedoglake — Authority: 766
  nuf said (photo by swanksalot) Who knew Harry Reid used tweetdeck : RESULTS: 67% say creating a public option to lower costs, create competition is top priority- vote now! http://bit.ly/3Dy2Rp #hcr I know conventional wisdom in the beltway says that Harry is putting on a good show before he folds, ...
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• The FISA Amendments: Behind the Scenes

  
  Cato @ Liberty — Authority: 744
  I’ve been poring over the trove of documents the Electronic Frontier Foundation has obtained detailing the long process by which the FISA Amendments Act—which substantially expanded executive power to conduct sweeping surveillance with little oversight—was hammered out between Hill staffers and lawyers at the ...
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• The “techie” side of “Getting It Right”

  
  Get FISA Right — Authority: 529
  The following posting is intended as part of the background information for a forthcoming Get FISA Right chat on the technological issues in “getting FISA right” or more generally balancing needed foreign intelligence gathering with the rights reserved and protected in the Constitution. We eagerly seek your ...
  1 week ago

• EFF FOIA Working Thread, Two

  
  Emptywheel — Authority: 728
  This will be another working thread on the EFF FOIA Documents. Here was the first working thread . The two sets of documents are: Draft legislation to amend FISA Correspondence about amendinng FISA And here’s the Vaughn Indices DOJ earlier submitted on these documents to help you figure out what they ...
  1 week ago

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