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Intelligence Chief Appears to Have Misled Congress on Wiretaps
Dan Eggen, The Washington Post, writes: "Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell told Congress last week that a May wiretap that targeted Iraqi insurgents was delayed for 12 hours by attempts... ...
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... ...
Case Dismissed?
The nation's biggest telecommunications companies, working closely with the White House, have mounted a secretive lobbying campaign to get Congress to quickly approve a measure wiping out all private lawsuits... ...
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... ...
America under surveillance
Salon by Tim Shorrock 08/09/07 On one level, the engagement of the NGA and the U-2 flights over the Gulf Coast during Katrina were commendable efforts to use America’s vast surveillance powers for the... ...
Gonzales, McConnell to Control New Surveillance Powers
Walter Pincus reports for The Washington Post: "The Bush administration plans to leave oversight of its expanded foreign eavesdropping program to the same government officials who supervise the surveillance... ...
NYPD Surveillance Files Ordered Released
The Associated Press reports: "New York City must release hundreds of pages of documents related to police surveillance of protesters prior to the 2004 Republican National Convention. The city had sought... ...
Bush gets a spying blank check
Consortium News by Robert Parry 08/05/07 Eager to leave for its August recess, Congress handed George W. Bush another blank check on executive power, letting him order up spying directives against a... ...