National Security Letters

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• House Delays Patriot Act Spy Vote

  
  Privacy Digest — Authority: 507
  House Delays Patriot Act Spy Vote : Via Threat Level . The House on Wednesday tabled for two months legislation reforming U.S. surveillance law, a move that delays a collision with a competing Senate version. Advertisement: [ Read more ... ] Bookmark/Search this post with: Twitter Digg ...
  3 days ago

• House Delays Patriot Act Spy Vote

  
  Threat Level — Authority: 740
  The House of Representatives tabled on Wednesday legislation to reform U.S. surveillance law. The two-month delay puts off a collision with a competing Senate version. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi declined to include a vote on the Patriot Act in a Pentagon funding bill. The move automatically extends provisions ...
  3 days ago

• The Long War on Terror: Obama Administration Renews the Patriot Act

  
  Enduring America — Authority: 594
  From William Fisher of IPS News via AlterNet : With the health care debate preoccupying the mainstream media, it has gone virtually unreported that the Barack Obama administration is quietly supporting renewal of provisions of the George W. Bush-era USA Patriot Act that civil libertarians say infringe on basic ...
  3 weeks ago

• Sign Open Letter to Barack Obama: Roll Back the Surveillance State

  
  Irregular Times: News Unfit for Print — Authority: 513
  The Bill of Rights Defense Committee has posted an open letter written to Barack Obama on the subject of spreading surveillance by the United States Government. The letter reads: Dear President Obama, In your response to Get FISA Right’s July 2008 Open Letter on my.barackobama.com, you promised to run “a ...
  3 weeks ago

• Obama Quietly Backs Renewing Patriot Act Surveillance Provisions

  
  Question Everything — Authority: 142
  Willam Fisher, IPS News/AlternetThree contentious provisions are scheduled to expire next month; opponents of these sections have been pushing to roll them back. But Obama seems ready to renew them.NEW YORK, 23 Nov (IPS) – With the health care debate preoccupying the mainstream media, it has gone virtually ...
  3 weeks ago

• A Surveillance Newsflash from Planet Hopeychange

  
  Cato @ Liberty — Authority: 749
  Climb aboard the TARDIS campers, we’re going to take a magic YouTube voyage to a strange parallel universe, very much like ours, except Barack Obama sports a dashing goatee and… Sorry, what’s that?  Not a parallel universe, you say? August of 2007, you say? Wait, that can’t be right. Because right around ...
  3 weeks ago

• Obama Quietly Backs Patriot Act Provisions

  
  Mountain Sage — Authority: 135
  By all means, pander to the “tough on terror” idiots who think so little of their liberties. NEW YORK – With the health care debate preoccupying the mainstream media, it has gone virtually unreported that the Barack Obama administration is quietly supporting renewal of provisions of the George W. Bush-era USA ...
  3 weeks ago

• Handy Chart Tracks Proposed Amendments to Patriot Act

  
  Privacy Digest — Authority: 507
  Handy Chart Tracks Proposed Amendments to Patriot Act : Via Threat Level . Confused by all the proposed changes to the Patriot Act ricocheting through the Capitol? The Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT) has put together a handy chart comparing the current law with the various amendments in the House and ...
  4 weeks ago

• National Security Letters, the Deceitful Media & the Convergence of Interests

  
  Milfuegos — Authority: 131
  This week we interviewed Mark Klein, the AT&T whistleblower; the interview should be posted in 3 or 4 weeks. I know you’re going to find it interesting and enlightening. Speaking of AT&T, check out our contributor Ishmael’s informative interview with Jeff Farias here . I have a few noteworthy tidbits ...
  5 weeks ago

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