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By not in system - AOL News(July 30) -- The Obama administration is seeking new surveillance powers for the FBI, granting it the ability to monitor "electronic communication transactional records" without the approval of a judge. If granted the new power, the FBI would have nearly unrestricted authority to monitor when you send e-mails, who you send them to and even your browsing history, if the FBI deems that information relevant to a terrorism or intelligence investigation. The FBI can request this information with a national security letter (NSL) to your Internet service provider, compelling the ISP to turn it over. ...
Inside the Rod Blagojevich Trial
By Lynn Sweet - Politics DailyCHICAGO -- As I entered the 25th-floor courtroom in the Dirksen Federal Building Tuesday, former Gov. Rod Blagojevich of Illinois walked over to say hello during a break in his corruption trial before U.S. District Court Judge James Zagel. Blagojevich was the most cheerful defendant I have ever chatted with. It had been awhile since I had last seen him. I started covering Blagojevich when he was a state representative in 1992. He's a runner and he knew I jogged, so he asked me and a local TV reporter, a marathoner, about how our running was going. I asked him if he was keeping up with his ...
SCOTUS Scuttles ACLU's Wiretapping Case
By Justin Paulette - Politics DailyACLU v. NSA has just been dropped from the Supreme Court's docket, in effect granting a victory to the Bush administration. The ACLU had argued the illegality of the executive's warrantless wiretapping program, the secret program revealed to the world within the pages of The New York Times. (I've written on the program here and here.) The decision was resolved on the procedural matter of "standing." The ACLU sued on behalf of itself, lawyers, reporters and scholars. None of the plaintiffs could show that they had been harmed by (or even subjected to) the program, Hence, they lacked standing to ...
Telecom Immunity Passes Senate
By Jay Allbritton - Politics DailyThe Senate finally passed an update of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act that includes immunity for telecommunications companies that aided government eavesdropping on American citizens. The resolution comes after a long struggle that featured internal party battles, threats of filibusters and presidential vetoes and a sustained online campaign by progressive blogs. The battle moves to the House of Representatives, where the current version of the legislation does not include immunity. If the House version passes without immunity, the issue will be determined in reconciliation ...
Surveillance Vote Today
By Liza Porteus Viana - Politics DailySenators are meeting at 10 a.m. today to vote on amendments to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978, which has some telecommunication companies stuck between a rock and a very hard place.FISA, which prohibits unauthorized electronic surveillance, has been under debate for some time as lawmakers try to decide, among other things, whether to offer retroactive legal immunity to telecom companies being sued for their alleged cooperation with the National Security Agency's warrantless wiretap program. Various amendments have been brought up, including one by Sen. Dianne Feinstein, ...
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