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The FISA Follies, Redux
The New York Times's editorial board, on the debate over re-authorization of the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, writes: "The Senate (reportedly still under Democratic control) seems determined... ...
The End of Privacy
For Truthdig, Elliot Cohen, writes: "Amid the controversy brewing in the Senate over Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) reform, the Bush administration appears to have changed its strategy and... ...
No Retroactive Immunity For The Telecoms
Each week we try to highlight the most urgent pressing policy issues with focus on the ones we're supposed to win, and can win, if only we mobilize enough people to speak out. We are asking all of our... ...
We Need Every Voice Raised This Week For SCHIP (State Children's Health Insurance Program)
Call your House member right now toll free at 800-828-0498, 800-614-2803 or 866-340-9281. If you don't know who they are you can instantly look them up in the right column of this action page, and use... ...
Federal judge rules 2 Patriot Act provisions unconstitutional
CNN 0926/07 A federal court on Wednesday struck down two provisions of the Patriot Act dealing with searches and intelligence gathering, saying they violate the Fourth Amendment protection against unreasonable... ...
Playing the Fear Card
Keith Olbermann The changes that were made last month to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act were apparently made under false pretenses -- Congresswoman Jane Harman on that, in a moment. First.... ...
Senate Democrats Hope to Rewrite FISA Law by October
Helen Fessenden reports for The Hill, "Democrats on the Senate Intelligence Committee aim to have a new foreign-intelligence surveillance bill ready by early October, or at least early enough that the... ...
Lawmakers Who Failed to Vote on FISA Bill
Karissa Marcum reports for The Hill, "On Friday night, 12 senators missed the vote to expand the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, while 13 House members did not vote on Saturday and Sunday morning." http://www.trut hout.org/docs_2006/080907L .shtml http://freepage. twoday.net/search?q=FISA h ttp://freepage.twoday.net/ search?q=surveillance ...
White House Long at Odds With FISA Court
Jason Leopold reports for Truthout: "The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act was enacted by Congress in 1978 after lawmakers discovered widespread abuses by the Nixon administration involving covert... ...
Fear, frenzy and FISA
Reason by Julian Sanchez Like Bill Murray’s hapless weatherman in Groundhog Day, America is locked in a perpetual September 12, 2001. How else to explain this weekend’s frenzied passage of a sweeping... ...