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Gitmo Gotcha, You Betcha

Jeff Schweitzer | Posted 10.20.2008 | Politics

Read More: Surveillance, Nsa, Civil Rights, Terrorism, Wiretapping, Torture, Gitmo, Bush Administration Torture, Guantanamo Bay, Waterboarding, Extrajudicial Renditions, Detention Without Trial, Suspension of H, Yaser Esam, Extrajudicial Detention, Abu Ghraib, Politics News
Jeff Schweitzer

Illegal conduct implemented at Gitmo has now metastasized to the shores of the United States. Where is the outrage?

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White House: Spying Misconduct, Which Included Eavesdropping On Phone Sex, Must Be Investigated

AFP | Posted 10.14.2008 | Politics

Read More: Nsa, Eavesdropping, Dana Perino, Domestic Spying, Wiretapping, Politics News

The White House spokesperson Dana Perino said today that she couldn't speak to the accuracy of an ABC news report that came out last week citing misco...

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Finally, Whistleblowers Report from the Inside on the NSA Program

Shayana Kadidal | Posted 10.09.2008 | Politics

Read More: George Bush, Jim Bamford, Center for Constitutional Rights, Nsa, Brian Ross, Wiretapping, Adrienne Kinne, Warrantless, David Murfee Faulk, Politics News
Shayana Kadidal

Finally, thanks to Brian Ross and surveillance expert Jim Bamford we have a report from the inside on what the NSA was eavesdropping on. And the facts are almost as bad as we expected.

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Government Intrudes on Troops' Privacy

Jon Soltz | Posted 10.09.2008 | Politics

Read More: Nsa, Government Surveillance, Iraq War, Patriot Act, Troops, Wiretapping, Surveillance, Iraq, Politics News
Jon Soltz

According to a new report, thanks to the Patriot Act, the government has been listening into phone calls from troops in the middle east, and passing clips of them around the office.

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Domestic Wiretapping First Hand Account: NSA Listened To Phone Sex

ABC | BRIAN ROSS, VIC WALTER, and ANNA SCHECTER | Posted 10.09.2008 | Politics

Read More: Nsa, Civil Liberties, Domestic Wiretapping, Sex, Phone Sex, Wiretapping, Fbi, Domestic Spying, FBI Surveillance, Politics News

Despite pledges by President George W. Bush and American intelligence officials to the contrary, hundreds of US citizens overseas have been eavesdropp...

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FISA: Got Questions, Will (Help) Pay For Answers

Charlie Reina | Posted 07.10.2008 | Politics

Read More: Nsa, Warrantless Wiretapping, FISA Bill, Bush Fisa, Spying, Fisa, NSA Wiretapping, Domestic Spying, Politics News
Charlie Reina

We need to know why the president was so hot to do the tele-spying the way they did. Why go outside FISA? Why circumvent a law that already allowed them to tap all they wanted, effectively without restraint?

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We Need to Know the Truth About the NSA Spy Program

Sen. Barbara Boxer | Posted 06.24.2008 | Politics

Read More: Nsa, FISA Bill, Barbara Boxer, NSA Spy, Fisa, Senator Barbara Boxer, FISA Legislation, NSA Wiretapping, Politics News
Sen. Barbara Boxer

The Bush administration trampled on the Constitution, and we are not doing anything in the FISA bill to provide real accountability. If we vote for this legislation, we are perpetuating a cover-up.

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The Secret Question Obama and McCain Will Never Hear

Aaron Greenspan | Posted 05.15.2008 | Politics

Read More: Government, Nsa, Intelligence, Cia, Mccain, War, Obama, Debates, Iraq, Agencies, Politics News
Aaron Greenspan

I've watched a number of the debates now, both Democratic and Republican. As with so many things, the quality has gone down as the quantity has gone u...

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Spies R' Us

Allison Kilkenny | Posted 03.31.2008 | Business

Read More: AT&T, Nsa, Corporations, Enron, Google, Google to Aid Cia, Google Cia Spying, Google Aiding Cia, Business News
Allison Kilkenny

The CIA has enlisted Google's help for their exponentially expanding spy network. Google will claim they're aiding the CIA with national security, just as AT&T claimed, just as corporations always claim when they're caught spying on people for the government.

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Google Recruited By CIA For Spy Work

London Times | Jonathan Richards | Posted 03.31.2008 | Home

Read More: Google, CIA and Google, Nsa, Cia, National Security Agency, Google Spying, US Intelligence Agencies, Google Search Tenchology Spying, Home News

Google has been recruited by US intelligence agencies to help them better process and share information they gather about suspects. Agencies such as ...

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Bush's Terror Card Backfires on Spying

Ari Melber | Posted 03.26.2008 | Politics

Read More: Nsa, Surveillance, Spying, Fisa, Domestic Wiretapping, War on Terror, Counterterrorism, Wiretapping, Telecommunications, Telecoms, Domestic Spying, Politics News
Ari Melber

Will we maintain accountability, oversight and the rule of law while aggressively pursuing terrorists, or will we allow incumbent politicians to trade away our rights to increase their own power?

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White House Backtracks On Lost Intelligence Claims

LA Times | Josh Meyer | Posted 02.24.2008 | Politics

Read More: Government Surveillance, Nsa, Warrantless Wiretapping, Politics News

A day after warning that potentially critical terrorism intelligence was being lost because Congress had not finished work on a controversial espionag...

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St. Veto's Day?

Jayne Lyn Stahl | Posted 02.07.2008 | Home

Read More: Nsa, Civil Liberties, Warrantless Wiretapping, Veto, Fisa, Protect America Act, Warrantless Surveillance, Home News
Jayne Lyn Stahl

This president's concept of the veto is not unlike Reagan's notion of detente, i.e. the threat is more potent than the thing itself.

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State of the Bully Address

Jayne Lyn Stahl | Posted 01.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: Nsa, First Amendment, AIDS Condoms, George W. Bush, State of the Union Address, Protect America Act, State of the Union, Bush State of the Union, Politics News
Jayne Lyn Stahl

The so-called "Protect America Act" was not designed to protect this country, but instead those corporate cronies whose ongoing sodomy of the First Amendment President Bush enthusiastically endorses.

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Bush Admin Plan To Broaden Wiretapping Powers Gains Victory In Senate

New York Times | ERIC LICHTBLAU | Posted 01.24.2008 | Politics

Read More: Government Surveillance, National Security Agency, Eavesdropping, Nsa, Warantless Eavesdropping, Wiretappin Program, Wiretapping, Politics News

A White House plan to broaden the National Security Agency's wiretapping powers won a key procedural victory in the Senate on Thursday, as backers def...

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Facebook & The National Surveillance State

Ari Melber | Posted 12.27.2007 | Politics

Read More: Nsa, Surveillance, Facebook, Privacy, Politics News
Ari Melber

Facebook is under mounting public pressure over how the company manages and monetizes the personal information of its 58 million users. Fights over ho...

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NSA Wiring Telecoms For More Domestic Spying

New York Times | Eric Lichtblau, James Risen and Scott Shane | Posted 12.16.2007 | Politics

Read More: NSA and Wiretapping, NSA and George Bush, Domestic Wiretapping, Electronic Surveillance, President Bush, Nsa, Telecommunications Industry, NSA and Telecommunications Companies, Wiretapping, Politics News

For months, the Bush administration has waged a high-profile campaign, including personal lobbying by President Bush and closed-door briefings by top ...

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Gimme Shelter

Jayne Lyn Stahl | Posted 11.20.2007 | Politics

Read More: Nsa, Shoe Bomber, National Security Archive, Department of Homeland Security, Carlos Eugenio Vides Casanova, Luis Posada Carriles, Selective Prosecution, Rudy Giuliani, Conservative Judges, Jose Guillermo Garcia, Jose Padilla, Federalist Society, Enhanced Interrogations, Senator Richard Durbin, Alberto Gonzales, Richard Reid, Torture, Politics News
Jayne Lyn Stahl

The U.S. has now become the dumping ground of choice for those who have committed the most heinous crimes, principally because we lack the laws necessary to prosecute them.

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Charity Begins...Where?

William Fisher | Posted 11.19.2007 | Politics

Read More: Warrantless Wiretapping, Monica Goodling, Gonzales Texas Supreme Court, Firing Attorneys, Alberto R. Gonzales Legal Expense Trust, Texas Supreme Court, Ford Motor Co, Habeas Corpus, Justice Inspector General, Expansion of Executive Power, Gonzales Firing Nine Attorneys, Alberto Gonzales Lawyer, Department of Justice, Alberto Gonzales Investigation, Nsa, George J. Terwilliger III, David Leitch, Alberto Gonzales, Executive Power, Scooter Libby, Terrorist Surveillance Program, Torture, White & Case, Gonzales Bush, Politics News
William Fisher

Checkbooks at the ready? After all, don't we all owe poor Al Gonzales our support in his time of need?

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Congress Set to Legitimize Warrantless Wiretapping

Caroline Fredrickson | Posted 11.13.2007 | Politics

Read More: Nsa, Warrantless Wiretapping, FISA Bill, FISA Legislation, Wiretapping, 4th Amendment, Fisa, Protect America Act, Fisa Law, Cogress Wiretapping, Politics News
Caroline Fredrickson

Customers who've had their rights violated should get their day in court. We'll never learn the facts about the warrantless wiretapping program if the telecoms are let off the hook.

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NSA Phone Call Intercept of Bush and Musharraf

Bill Katovsky | Posted 11.13.2007 | Politics

Read More: Nsa, Benazir Bhutto, Bush, Lawyers Journalists Pakistan, Satire, Wiretapping, Presidential Satire, Pervez Musharraf, Political Satire, Taliban, Al Qaeda, Politics News
Bill Katovsky

Musharraf: Oh, my good, trusted friend, I understand your concern but we all know what a nuisance lawyers and the media are. Bush: No kiddin'. If the ACLU had its way, Guantanamo would be emptied of all them terrorists.

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Will Democrats Restore Our Liberties Stolen in the Bush Era?

Ari Melber | Posted 11.13.2007 | Politics

Read More: Andrei Cherny, 2008, Platform, Alternet, Habeas Corpus, Nsa, Warrantless Wiretapping, Civil Liberties, Human Rights, Guantanamo, Hillary Clinton, Chris Dodd, Spying, Joe Biden, Fisa, 2008 Election, Barack Obama, Politics News
Ari Melber

Here's an attempt to cover the presidential candidates' civil liberties landscape and propose a few ideas for constitutional activism within the ongoing Democratic debate.

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Fighting Illegal Spying in the Senate Today

Ari Melber | Posted 11.08.2007 | Politics

Read More: Fisa, Telecoms Immunity, Arlen Specter Telecoms, Leahy, Immunity, Telecom, Nsa, Aclu, Patrick Leahy, Fisa Amendments Act, Aclu Surveillance, Government Surveillance, Surveillance Bill, James Robertson, Dodd Hold Surveillance Bill, Politics News
Ari Melber

Under Democratic control, Congress is doing even worse on illegal spying than the Republicans.

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Why Military Types Should Not Run the CIA

Valerie Plame Wilson | Posted 10.23.2007 | Politics

Read More: Valerie Plame Wilson Book, Nsa, Michael Hayden, Cia, Fair Game: My Life as a Spy, Valerie Plame Wilson, Valerie Plame Criticisms, Valerie Plame Book Tour, Politics News
Valerie Plame Wilson

The core mission of the CIA is to provide unvarnished intelligence of national security import to policy makers. General Hayden casts the role of the CIA in paramilitary terms.

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What Did Pelosi Know, and When Did She Know It?

Coleen Rowley | Posted 10.23.2007 | Politics

Read More: House Judiciary Chairman John Conyers, Michael Hayden, Nsa, Ray McGovern, Nancy Pelosi, Alberto Gonzales, Robert L. Deitz, Terrorist Surveillance Program, Qwest, CIA Inspector General John Helgerson, Politics News
Coleen Rowley

The president, vice president, and CIA director--not to mention the credulous crowd around Nancy Pelosi--have all been regurgitating a king-sized whopper aimed at providing "justification" for the NSA program.

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