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Report: US Would Make Internet Wiretaps Easier
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON (Sept. 27) -- Broad new regulations being drafted by the Obama administration would make it easier for law enforcement and national security officials to eavesdrop on Internet and e-mail communications like social networking Web sites and BlackBerries, The New York Times reported Monday. The newspaper said the White House plans to submit a bill next year that would require all online services that enable communications to be technically equipped to comply with a wiretap order. That would include providers of encrypted e-mail, such as BlackBerry, networking sites like Facebook and ...
Opinion: Obama's Controversial Call for New Snooping Powers
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. ...
Judge Says NSA Illegally Wiretapped Islamic Group, but Ruling's Impact Is Limited
By Graydon Gordian - Politics DailyWhen a federal court in California ruled last week that the National Security Agency's electronic surveillance of an Oregon-based Islamic charity was illegal, civil liberties advocates claimed victory. Not so fast, say some legal experts, who note that the ruling's narrow language mutes its impact. U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker ruled that the government had violated the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act's protections against warrantless wiretaps of U.S. citizens and was liable to pay damages to Al-Haramain for tapping the organization's phone calls (and those of two of its lawyers) ...
Jerry Ford OKed Warrantless Wiretaps in U.S., Memo Reveals
By Andrew Becker - Politics DailyPresident Gerald Ford secretly authorized the use of warrantless domestic wiretaps for foreign intelligence and counterintelligence purposes soon after coming into office, according to a declassified document. The Dec. 19, 1974 White House memorandum, marked Top Secret/Exclusively Eyes Only and signed by Ford, gave then-Attorney General William B. Saxbe and his successors in office authorization "to approve, without prior judicial warrants, specific electronic surveillance within the United States which may be requested by the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation." ...
The Latest Media Scandal: Murdoch Finally Under the Gun?
By Delia Lloyd - Politics DailyWell, it's certainly proving to be a fine summer for the Europeans. ...
U.S. Government May Have Your Credit Card Records, Too
By David Knowles - Politics DailyFormer intelligence officer turned whistleblower, Russell Tice, added new a new wrinkle to the revelations that under the Bush Administration's directives, the U.S. government spied on its own citizens using then-illegal wiretaps. Interviewed by MSNBC's Keith Olbermann, Tice detailed how Uncle Sam got into the business of data mining the credit card information of "tens of thousands" of ordinary Americans, and retains that purchase information to this day. Here's the Q & A:So, does it matter whether the federal government knows how many pairs of pants you purchased at J. Crew? Well, yes. Of ...
Identity of NSA Terrorist Surveillance Program Leaker Revealed
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyIn December 2005, the New York Times published its famous expose on the NSA's terrorist surveillance program, which may have alerted targets under surveillance to alter their methods of communication, and became a major firestorm of controversy in the Bush Administration's second term. Mislabeling the program "domestic spying," the media and Democrats decried the existence of the program, accusing the White House of prying into the private lives of ordinary Americans. The Administration denounced the leak, but refuses to confirm details of the program even until today. A criminal investigation ...
No Charges For Gonzales in Attorneys Purge
By Jay Allbritton - Politics DailyThe Washington Post reports that Justice Department Inspector General Glenn Fine will not refer former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales to a federal grand jury for his role in the U.S. Attorneys purge. A report, written by another official in the department, however, calls for a prosecutor to investigate the firings. According to report, current Attorney General Michael Mukasey will name a prosecutor from within the department. The controversy over the firings began in December of 2006, when eight U.S. attorneys were fired. Though firing U.S. Attorneys is the prerogative of the President, ...
FISA Bill a Bipartisan Triumph
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyPresident Bush signed a revamped Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act into law last week at the White House. The bill reestablishes the Bush Administration's terrorist surveillance program, which had lapsed when the Protect America Act of 2007 expired in February. The Bush Administration counts the passage of the bill as a victory both in its efforts to protect the country from terrorist attacks and in its design to provide the next Administration with all the tools necessary to keep the country safe into the future.The bill's detractors, and critics of the surveillance it authorizes, see the ...
Federal Judge Rejects Wiretapping Powers
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyA federal judge in the Northern District of California has ruled in favor of a challenge to the Bush Administration's terrorist surveillance program, saying that the Executive branch has no authority to conduct warrantless surveillance except under the conditions set forth by Congress in the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. The lawsuit, brought by the Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation, a Muslim charity, alleged that the National Security Agency violated the FISA Act when it secretly monitored the foundation's communications under the controversial program. The judge ruled that FISA is ...
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