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• Bush Administration Was Afraid It Would Have To Admit Telcos Hel...

  
  Computer & Internet - computer-internet.marc8.com — Authority: 169
  With the EFF finally successful in getting the federal govt to hand over some lobbying documents involved in the process of granting telcos total immunity in lawsuits over warrantless wiretapping, the press is starting to go through the documents. read more
  2 weeks ago

• The FISA Amendments: Behind the Scenes

  
  Cato @ Liberty — Authority: 740
  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 ...
  2 weeks ago

• Lawyers Allege Ongoing ‘Dragnet’ Surveillance

  
  The Washington Independent — Authority: 733
  Attorney General Eric Holder (WDCpix) On October 30, the Justice Department for the first time applied its new “state secrets” policy to a case charging the government with breaking the law. Open government advocates hoping for a significant change in the government’s stance toward secrecy in national security ...
  3 weeks ago

• Fort Hood Shooter’s Trial May Shed Light on NSA/CIA Domestic Spying

  
  Firedoglake — Authority: 748
  Alleged shooter Major Malik Hasan The New York Times reports that alleged Fort Hood shooter Major Nidal Malik Hasan will have a military trial: The officials said the Departments of Defense and Justice had decided Major Hasan would be prosecuted in a military court, an indication that investigators believe he ...
  3 weeks ago

• Administration Finally Releasing Some Info On Telco Immunity Lob...

  
  Computer & Internet - computer-internet.marc8.com — Authority: 169
  After many attempts to block or delay the release of info on who lobbied the federal government last year for telco immunity in lawsuits involving the feds warrantless wiretapping program, the government has finally agreed to hand over some of the information requested . read more
  3 weeks ago

• Spying on Americans: Obama Endorses Bush Era Warrantless Wiretapping

  
  War On You: Breaking Alternative News — Authority: 568
  Spying on Americans: Obama Endorses Bush Era Warrantless Wiretapping Antifascist Calling… – 2009-11-05 by Tom Burghardt President Barack Obama instructed Justice Department attorneys to  argue last week in San Francisco before Federal District Judge Vaughn Walker, that he must toss out the Electronic ...
  3 weeks ago

• Apparently Obama thinks we can’t handle the truth

  
  Blog on the Run: Reloaded — Authority: 437
  This was wrong when Bush did it, and it’s still wrong now that Obama is doing it: The Obama administration has, yet again, asserted the broadest and most radical version of the “state secrets” privilege — which previously caused so much controversy and turmoil among loyal Democrats (when used by ...
  4 weeks ago

• Holder’s Invocation of State Secrets Privilege Shields Government From Accountability

  
  The Washington Independent Blog — Authority: 155
  As Marcy Wheeler and Glenn Greenwald both pointed out over the weekend, Eric Holder on Friday once again declared that a case charging government lawbreaking must be dismissed because to let it continue would reveal important “state secrets.” That’s despite the fact that Attorney General Eric Holder not ...
  4 weeks ago

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