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Like FBI, CIA Has Used Secret "Letters"
Joby Warrick, of The Washington Post, reports: "For three years, the Bush administration has drawn fire from civil liberties groups over its use of national security letters, a kind of administrative subpoena... ...
Time To Win The Fight Against Telecom Immunity Again, Please Speak Out Now
Before the holiday break, in defiance of the perverse decision by Harry Reid to bring forward the version of the FISA bill with telecom immunity, and thanks to your voices and leadership of Senator Dodd,... ...
Reports of data breaches reached new heights in 2007
USA Today 12/31/07 The loss or theft of personal data such as credit card and Social Security numbers soared to unprecedented levels in 2007, and the trend isn’t expected to turn around anytime soon... ...
Senate postpones consideration of spy bill
Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid, facing stiff opposition, on Monday abruptly postponed until next month consideration of a measure to give immunity to telephone companies that participated in President... ...
Domestic Spy Program Fuels Aid Plan for Telecoms
Eric Lichtblau, James Risen and Scott Shane, reporting for The New York Times, write: "For months, the Bush administration has waged a high-profile campaign, including personal lobbying by President Bush... ...
Why the telecoms shouldn’t get immunity
The American Prospect by Robert B. Reich 12/03/07 You’d think anyone who remembered J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI and Nixon’s CIA, the Federal Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 — let alone the Fourth Amendment... ...
Third world warriors fight U.S. wars for dollars a day
With U.S. forces stretched thin in Iraq, private security companies have swept in to fill the void. But abuses of third-world security workers abound. And in many cases, those helping to fight our wars... ...
Iraq Bill Would Lift Contractor Immunity
Sinan Salaheddin of The Associated Press reports: "The Iraqi government on Tuesday approved draft legislation lifting immunity for foreign private security companies, sending the measure to parliament,... ...
Iraqi Cabinet upholds Blackwater findings, presses for expulsion
The government has upheld the findings of an official investigation of the alleged shooting death of 17 Iraqis by employees of Blackwater USA and is pressing the U.S. Embassy to expel the private security... ...
Companies Seeking Immunity Donate to Senator
Eric Lichtblau and Scott Shane of The New York Times report: "Executives at the two biggest phone companies contributed more than $42,000 in political donations to Senator John D. Rockefeller IV this year... ...