Warrantless Wiretapping

Dems Who Flipped On Telecom Immunity Got More Telecom Cash

Politico | Posted 06.25.2008 | Politics

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House Democrats who flipped their votes to support retroactive immunity for telecom companies in last week's FISA bill took thousands of dollars more ...

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Why Congress Treats The Constitution Like A Toy

Art Brodsky | Posted 06.25.2008 | Politics

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Art Brodsky

On FISA, our "legislators" had to legislate, or else they would be made to look bad by a president whose policies are now opposed by about 80 percent of the American people.

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Dodd And Feingold Will Filibuster Telecom Immunity

Posted 06.24.2008 | Politics

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Senators Chris Dodd (D-CT) and Russ Feingold (D-WI) released the following statement today in response to the announcement that the Senate this week w...

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Legitimizing Arrogance

Chellie Pingree | Posted 06.20.2008 | Politics

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Chellie Pingree

In a double sleight of hand, not only does new legislation passed yesterday by the House say unmonitored surveillance of American citizens is permitted, it blocks any opportunity to test the premise in the courts.

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Obama Backs Bill Giving Immunity To Telecoms

The Huffington Post | Posted 06.20.2008 | Politics

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Sen. Barack Obama's campaign released a statement Friday afternoon saying that while Obama opposes amnesty for telecom firms that spied on Americans, ...

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Are the Democrats Worse Than the Republicans?

Cenk Uygur | Posted 06.20.2008 | Politics

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Cenk Uygur

President Bush is the most unpopular president of all time -- literally. But if you keep losing to the worst, what does that make you?

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Bush Gives Dems STDs

Marty Kaplan | Posted 06.20.2008 | Politics

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Marty Kaplan

Nancy Pelosi, Stenny Hoyer and the blue dogs they lie down with have been rewarded with the same herpetic embrace that is turning John McCain into a Republican cootie incubator.

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Jason Linkins

McCain Flip-Flops Again, Now Supports Bush-Style Warrantless Wiretapping

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 06.04.2008 | Politics

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Back in December 2007, before the primary season began, when it didn't yet look as if he was going to be the Republican nominee, John McCain believed ...

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Warrantless Wiretaps And Retroactive Immunity Are Un-American

Howie Klein | Posted 05.20.2008 | Politics

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Howie Klein

Wiretapping American citizens without a warrant is not part of a progressive vision for national security -- nor is granting retroactive immunity to criminal executives of major corporate donors to political campaigns.

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Mea Culpa, or, I Believe I May Have Misspoken

Robert Davey | Posted 04.09.2008 | Politics

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Robert Davey

I think I have to eat my own words, because it looks as if I did misread the Protect America Act. But in my defense I must say that the law is very confusing.

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2001 DOJ Memo Justified Warrantless Surveillance

AP | PAMELA HESS and LARA JAKES JORDAN | Posted 04.02.2008 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — For at least 16 months after the Sept. 11 terror attacks in 2001, the Bush administration believed that the Constitution's protecti...

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Friday Talking Points [23]

Chris Weigant | Posted 03.14.2008 | Politics

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Chris Weigant

As Robert Anton Wilson pointed out (or William S. Burroughs, if you prefer), hexagram 23 of the I Ching is "breaking apart." Anyone who subscribes to...

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House Dems Near Surrender on Bush Spying

Ari Melber | Posted 03.04.2008 | Politics

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Ari Melber

Tuesday's Washington Post reports that House Democrats are close to granting all of President Bush's demands for more domestic spying powers and telecommunications amnesty, in exchange for, well, nothing.

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Unspinning the President

William Fisher | Posted 02.29.2008 | Politics

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William Fisher

In case you've only been reading the mainstream press, you might not know that there are many veteran counter-terrorism experts and legal scholars who aren't buying Dubya's rantings.

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GOP To Telecoms: Give Us Cash For Advocating Wiretaps

Roll Call/WaPo | Posted 02.28.2008 | Politics

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Roll Call reports: With the House Democrats' refusal to grant retroactive immunity to phone companies -- stalling the rewrite of the warrantless wire...

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Jason Linkins

Alarmist Lede Drives Times Wiretap Story

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 02.27.2008 | Politics

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The New York Time's Eric Lichtblau is all a flutter today because, as his headline reads, "In Wiretap's Stead, Uncertainty." Harrowing, terrifying, "...

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White House Backtracks On Lost Intelligence Claims

LA Times | Josh Meyer | Posted 02.24.2008 | Politics

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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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Court Rejects ACLU Challenge to Wiretaps

AP | MARK SHERMAN | Posted 02.19.2008 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — An attempt to blast a crippled U.S. spy satellite out of the sky using a Navy heat-seeking missile _ possibly on Wednesday night _ ...

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Is Cooperating with the Government Always a Good Thing?

Cenk Uygur | Posted 02.18.2008 | Politics

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Cenk Uygur

In Bush's mind, cooperation with the government is always a good thing, so we have to make sure we encourage that. But what if cooperation with the government was a bad thing?

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Wiretap Law Expires As Dems Stand Up To Bush

TPMmuckraker | Paul Kiel | Posted 02.15.2008 | Politics

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What happened? The administration did everything right. The invocation of "countless American lives" hanging in the balance, the specter of terrorists...

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Let the Eagle Whore

William Fisher | Posted 02.13.2008 | Politics

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William Fisher

How much credibility does the Bush first-term attorney general have on the subject of protecting civil liberties and the rule of law?

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Will the Spies Come Out of the Closet?

Leslie Griffith | Posted 02.13.2008 | Media

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Leslie Griffith

With all the lies this administration has told the American people, how in the world we can give up our basic right to privacy?

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Rule of Law and American Values: Obama for, Hillary Absent, McCain Flip-Flops Against

Craig Newmark | Posted 02.12.2008 | Politics

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Craig Newmark

There are folks in Congress who believe that no one is above the law, that the privileged should be treated like everyone else, but the good guys lost a fight today in the Senate.

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St. Veto's Day?

Jayne Lyn Stahl | Posted 02.07.2008 | Home

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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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Senate Delays Eavesdropping Vote

AP | PAMELA HESS | Posted 01.24.2008 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — The Senate granted at least a temporary victory to the White House on Thursday, turning back an attempt to increase court oversight...

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