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« Previous EntriesCourt Ruling that NSA Wiretapping is Illegal Drives Emergency Push for New Spy Powers, Newsweek Reports
Friday, August 3rd, 2007By Ryan Singel The Bush Administration's hard press for emergency wiretapping powers from Congress before the August break now has an explanation: a secret court decided several months ago that at least one portion of the NSA wiretapping program is illegal, according to MSNBC Newsweek. That program operated for four years without court supervision, until the Administration bowed to public pressure in January 2007 and ...
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Report: White House says spying broader than previously admitted
Wednesday, August 1st, 2007Reuters The Bush administration's top intelligence official has acknowledged that a controversial domestic surveillance program was only one part of a much broader spying effort, The Washington Post reported in its Wednesday edition. Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell wrote in a letter that other aspects of the National Security Agency's domestic spying program remain classified, the Post said. "That is the only aspect of the NSA activities that can ...
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Committee demanding details of NSA data-mining
Tuesday, July 31st, 2007A House committee is requesting Justice Department documents on a data-mining project that identified the senders and recipients of calls and e-mails intercepted via the National Security Agency's eavesdropping program. In a Monday letter, Rep. John Conyers, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, asked Attorney General Alberto Gonzales to hand over "all opinions, memoranda and background materials, as well as any dissenting views, materials, and opinions" about the data-mining program. While the Bush ...
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Bush calls for retroactive legalization of illegal wiretapping
Monday, July 30th, 2007by Adam Thomas US President George W. Bush today asked for more powers to wiretap without warrants, in effect retroactively legalizing the unlawful National Security Agency wiretapping, which the President ordered in 2002. The NSA wiretapping order is illegal under the terms of the The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, but Bush administration, led by Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, has proposed a Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal ...
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Mining of Data Prompted Fight Over U.S. Spying
Monday, July 30th, 2007By SCOTT SHANE and DAVID JOHNSTON A 2004 dispute over the National Security Agency’s secret surveillance program that led top Justice Department officials to threaten resignation involved computer searches through massive electronic databases, according to current and former officials briefed on the program. It is not known precisely why ...
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Bipartisan group blasts NSA wiretaps
Wednesday, July 25th, 2007UPI A U.S. bipartisan group Wednesday said the National Security Agency's warrantless surveillance program is illegal. The Liberty and Security Committee of the Constitution Project said in a statement that the U.S. Congress should finish its probe into the warrantless surveillance program before it heeds the urging of the Bush administration to beef up laws on electronic surveillance. Those signing the statement included: David Keene, chairman of the American Conservative ...
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Wiretapping Subpoenas Lead to Constitutional Shutdown
Friday, July 13th, 2007By Ryan Singel Dems want to know more about the NSA's secret warrantless eavesdropping on Americans. They drop a subpoena on Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and President Bush. Both claim the documents are protected by executive privilege or too classified. This is a very likely future scenario and presumably its one the Administration is attempting to head off with its call yesterday for Congress to explicitly legalize the program. But ...
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NSA Snooped on Lawyers Knowing Spying Was Illegal, Suit Charges
Wednesday, July 11th, 2007By Ryan Singel The government's surveillance of two attorneys challenging the NSA's warrantless wiretapping of Americans took place partly during a period in which the top secret program operated without the approval of the Bush administration's own Justice Department, according to a newly filed court document. The lawsuit, known as al-Haramain vs. United States, is the only one of more than 50 challenges to the ...
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Another NSA Whistleblower Speaks Out
Sunday, July 1st, 2007By David Swanson RINF Alternative News A former member of U.S. military intelligence has decided to reveal what she knows about warrantless spying on Americans and about the fixing of intelligence in the leadup to the invasion of Iraq. Adrienne Kinne describes an incident just prior to the invasion of Iraq in which a fax came into her office at Fort Gordon in Georgia that purported to provide information on the ...
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Cheney Punished Justice Official Who Questioned Domestic Spying
Thursday, June 7th, 2007Stand-In for Ashcroft Alleges Interference By Dan Eggen Washington Post Staff Writer Vice President Cheney told Justice Department officials that he disagreed with their objections to a secret surveillance program during a high-level White House meeting in March 2004, a former senior Justice official told senators yesterday. The meeting came one day before White House officials ...
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NSA Rolls with Tech Changes to Keep Spying
Wednesday, June 6th, 2007Lisa Vaas On Dec. 15, 2005, the New York Times broke the news that soon after the Sept. 11 attacks President Bush had secretly authorized the National Security Agency to eavesdrop on U.S. citizens and other persons within the country. A Federal judge has since ruled that the NSA's actions were both illegal and unconstitutional—a matter that will likely be decided by the Supreme Court. But how, ...
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NSA Surveillance Program Violated Congressional Notification Law
Wednesday, June 6th, 2007Luke O'Brien Wired News The Bush administration may have broken a law requiring broader congressional notification of intelligence activities when it authorized an NSA warrantless wiretapping program that snooped on American citizens after 9/11. The Hill reports today that Democrats are beginning to make noise over the White House's decision to limit its disclosure of the NSA program to the "gang of eight" -- the leaders of both parties from ...
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Congress doubtful about immunity for phone companies in NSA spying
Thursday, May 31st, 2007Despite the Bush administration’s firm stance on granting immunity to telephone companies, Congress hopes to raise the issue again to find out exactly what the phone companies provided to the government, reports Ars Technica. The Bush administration has asked for retroactive immunity for telephone companies regardless of the legality of their actions. Silvestre Reyes (D-TX), the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, intends to hold hearings in order ...
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What other programs are the NSA geeks runnning?
Saturday, May 19th, 2007Pundits worldwide are wondering just what other programs the NSA might have running, other than the single one Attorney General Gonzales was so adamant about keeping the intelligence committee focused on. Before we can elucidate further, we need to know a little about how the NSA works. In a nutshell, the manner in which it works is also the reason why what they do is illegal within our national borders, and ...
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Management shortcomings seen at NSA
Tuesday, May 8th, 2007Siobhan Gorman In a sharp rebuke to the National Security Agency's leadership, an internal task force has concluded that the country's largest intelligence agency lacks vision and is unable to set objectives and meet them. NSA employees also do not trust one another, which has left the agency fragmented and in search of a "unity of purpose," according to a task force report released to employees late last month. "What we need is ...
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