Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act

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• A Preemptive Word on “Lone Wolves”

  
  Cato @ Liberty — Authority: 738
  As Marcy Wheeler notes , the press seem to have settled on the term “lone wolf” to describe Fort Hood gunman Nidal Malik Hasan, which means it’s probably only a matter of time before we encounter a pundit or legislator who is cynical or befuddled enough (or both) to invoke the tragedy in defense of the PATRIOT ...
  1 week ago

• House Patriot Act Bill Draws Broad Support On Account of National Security Letter Fix

  
  Privacy Digest — Authority: 436
  House Patriot Act Bill Draws Broad Support On Account of National Security Letter Fix : Via CDT - PolicyBeta . A coalition of 20 civil liberties organizations, including the Center for Democracy & Technology, released a letter today endorsing H.R. 3845, the USA Patriot Amendments Act. The bill was introduced ...
  2 weeks ago

• House Considers Limiting Patriot Act Spy Powers

  
  Privacy Digest — Authority: 436
  House Considers Limiting Patriot Act Spy Powers : Via Threat Level . Powerful House members are proposing sweeping reforms to U.S. surveillance law that puts them on a collision course with pro-domestic spying legislation in the Senate. The proposals (.pdf) come as key provisions of the Patriot Act are set to ...
  3 weeks ago

• War on Terror II

  
  Privacy Digest — Authority: 436
  War on Terror II : Via The Nation. We know the rules by now, the strange conventions and stilted Kabuki scripts that govern our cartoon facsimile of a national security debate. The Obama administration makes vague, reassuring noises about constraining executive power and protecting civil liberties, but then merrily ...
  3 weeks ago

• Breaking News: House of Representatives Enters PATRIOT Fray With Two New Surveillance Reform Bills

  
  Privacy Digest — Authority: 436
  Breaking News: House of Representatives Enters PATRIOT Fray With Two New Surveillance Reform Bills : Via EFF.org Updates . This afternoon, leaders in the House of Representatives introduced their own USA PATRIOT Act reform bill, responding to the disappointing PATRIOT renewal bill approved by the Senate Judiciary ...
  3 weeks ago

• Once Again, Government Moves to Delay Release of Telecom Lobbying Documents

  
  Privacy Digest — Authority: 436
  Once Again, Government Moves to Delay Release of Telecom Lobbying Documents : Via EFF.org Updates . This evening, the Director of National Intelligence and the Department of Justice filed yet another emergency motion with the Ninth Circuit, asking for a stay of the deadline to release telecom immunity lobbying ...
  4 weeks ago

• Federal Court Denies Government Attempt to Delay Release of Telecom Records. Again.

  
  Privacy Digest — Authority: 436
  Federal Court Denies Government Attempt to Delay Release of Telecom Records. Again. : Via EFF.org Updates . Today a federal district court denied the governments latest emergency motion asking for a 30-day stay in last Fridays deadline to release records relating to telecom lobbying over last years debate over ...
  4 weeks ago

• The Ghost of Patriot Past

  
  Privacy Digest — Authority: 436
  The Ghost of Patriot Past : Via CDT - PolicyBeta . It seems like the debate over health care reform has sucked all the oxygen out of the public dialog, as if nothing else were happening here in Washington. Think again. Perhaps one of the most significant “behind the scenes” actions happened late last week when ...
  4 weeks ago

• Salon Radio: Patriot Act and FISA reforms

  
  Privacy Digest — Authority: 436
  Salon Radio: Patriot Act and FISA reforms : Via Salon: Glenn Greenwald . (updated below - Update II) When Congress enacted the Patriot Act in the wake of the 9/11 attacks, it provided for a four-year expiration date for some of the more controversial provisions.  In 2005, when it was time for Congress to ...
  6 weeks ago

• Patriot Act Reform Debate Heats Up

  
  PolicyBeta — Authority: 465
  In two letters sent to Congress today, the Obama Department of Justice announced its support for reauthorization of three expiring provisions of the 2001 Patriot Act and its willingness to consider civil liberties amendments that do not diminish the effectiveness of the expiring provisions. Its openness to amendments ...
  8 weeks ago

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