On Obama Vs. Torture III: CIA Agents Now Afraid To Accept Future Felonious
2009-04-23 04:57:00 Despite President Obama’s Assurances None Of The CIA’s “Ground Troops” Will Be Prosecuted, Many Are Now Reluctant To Accept Terr’ist Torture Assignments RealClear Politics‘ David Ignatius wrote an article is lamenting President Obama’s “clear as... This is only a comment summary. Visit http://guntotingliberal.com to view the lastest content complete with some of the most outrageous original photoshops in the political blogosphere!
Wow, Apparently I?m A ?Right Wing Extremist? According To The Department Of
2009-04-15 05:17:00 I’m Anti-Illegal Immigration, Pro 2nd Amendment, My Parents Are Participating In The Mobile, Alabama “Tea Party” Tomorrow, I’m A Disabled Operation Iraqi Freedom Combat Veteran And I’m A Liberal, Yet I Qualify As A Potential “Right Wing Extremist” -Slash-... This is only a comment summary. Visit http://guntotingliberal.com to view the lastest content complete with some of the most outrageous original photoshops in the political blogosphere!
Nancy Pelosi: We In Congress Might Not Have Any Choice But To Prosecute Bus
2009-01-19 02:19:00 Are The Cheney-Bush Team Really Going To Rock Away Into Their Golden Years And Enjoy The View From Their Windows Without Iron Bars? Were you to listen to the wacky far-left, you would learn they are convinced, I say — CONVINCED — that President Bush and Dick Cheney abused their offices... This is only a comment summary. Visit http://guntotingliberal.com to view the lastest content complete with some of the most outrageous original photoshops in the political blogosphere!
Wiretapping Program Ruled Legal
2009-01-16 14:41:00 From Slashdot: The New York Times is carrying a story concerning that well known bastion of legal authority, the 'Foreign Intelligence Surveillance' court, which has ruled that the National Security Agency's warrantless eavesdropping program was perfectly legal. It says, 'A federal
FISA Court To Provide A Public Ruling Making The Cheney-Bush ?Wiretapping A
2009-01-15 23:47:00 Unconstitutional FISA Opinion Essentially Merges The Judicial And Executive Branches With The Executive In Charge This is absolutely amazing (The New York Times). Predictably, Ed Morrissey of Hot Air defends this so-called “PROGRAM” by applauding the FISA Court’s rare public,... This is only a comment summary. Visit http://guntotingliberal.com to view the lastest content complete with some of the most outrageous original photoshops in the political blogosphere!
Judicial Committee Chairman John Conyers Seeks To Launch 9/11 Commission Ty
2009-01-13 22:41:00 President-Elect Obama On New Congressional Legislation: I Have Not Yet Decided To Endorse This Action; Nobody Is Above The Law As most folks know by now, I highly disagree with one of our Founding Fathers, Ben Franklin, who once was heard to have said “Those who sacrifice their liberty for... This is only a comment summary. Visit http://guntotingliberal.com to view the lastest content complete with some of the most outrageous original photoshops in the political blogosphere!
Disgraced Former Bush AG, Alberto Gonzales, Unemployed And Still Willing To
2009-01-01 03:48:00 First, Let’s Start This Little “Diddy” Off With A “Tell-All” Quote From Alberto “War On Freedom And War On Porn” Gonzales: “What is it that I did that is so fundamentally wrong, that deserves this kind of response to my service?” — Alberto... This is only a comment summary. Visit http://guntotingliberal.com to view the lastest content complete with some of the most outrageous original photoshops in the political blogosphere!
William ?Bill? Kristol: Bush Needs To Pardon Felons Who Acted In ?Good Fait
2008-11-30 02:51:00 COUNTERPOINT: Should The Weekly Standard’s Neocon Extremist, Bill Kristol, Be Wiretapped And Data-Mined By The New Obama-”O” Biden Administration Without FISA Permission In The Name Of “Good Intentions” To Investigate His Possible “Ties” To “Timothy... This is only a comment summary. Visit http://guntotingliberal.com to view the lastest content complete with some of the most outrageous original photoshops in the political blogosphere!
Say It Isn?t So: John McCain Is Against Telecom Immunity
2008-05-23 20:28:00 First he was against Gitmo, then torture, and now telecom immunity? Yep, it appears that John McCain is against giving immunity to the telecom industry for helping the NSA with it’s terrorist surveillance program after 9/11. The Justice Department told the phone companies in writing that their country needed them and if they agreed to help ...
By: The Hot Joints
Al-Timimi and NSA Wiretapping Balancing Act: Gov Has 60 Days
2008-03-27 12:04:00 By order dated March 13, 2008, District Court Judge Leonie M. Brinkema gave the government an additional 60 days to complete the process of looking for discoverable material as to any NSA wiretapping of Ali Al-Timimi. The government made two filings the week earlier. One was an Ex Parte, In Camera, Classified ...
Warrantless Wiretapping: What History Teaches Us
2008-03-12 21:21:00 "I've wondered many times at what point he could have been stopped," said Mr. Gentry of Hoover. "I don't think after F.D.R. it was possible," he added. Hoover had a close relationship with President Roosevelt.Mr. Gentry's account weaves together interviews with hundreds of people, including many former agents and F.B.I. officials, along with his findings from a review of thousands of internal memos, including previously undisclosed documents. "The memos were reference points for the things the agents told me," Mr. Gentry said. Mr. Gentry found that Hoover played no favorites in some respects. He eagerly acquired information on politicians, journalists, celebrities, even his close friends. "Hoover didn't associate with people unless he had something on them," one former aide quoted in the book told Mr. Gentry. Another former official quoted by the author said: "Hoover was not given to halfway measures. If he didn't like you, he destroyed you." Under Hoover, the agency sought out...
By: NO Exit...
Hoover, FISA and Warrantless Wiretapping
2008-03-12 19:25:00 A timely reminder. I am halfway through Gentry's Hoover biography, while simultaneously reading the 1976 biography of the Rockefeller family, Fellers. They make fascinating tag team reading companions.Ignorance of history, doomed to repeat it... how quickly we forget. J. EDGAR HOOVER: THE MAN AND THE SECRETS, BY CURT GENTRYA review by Piers Brendon for the Columbia Journalism Review, 1992.No citizen has ever posed a more serious threat to American liberties than J. Edgar Hoover. This is not to say that he was, as a congressman asserted in 1972, "the American Beria." Nor was the Federal Bureau of Investigation, which he directed for so long, "a Cheka," an "American OGPU," or a kind of "Gestapo," as other critics charged. Hoover never shot people or put them in concentration camps on the orders of a dictator in the White House. But hisbureau did become, as the Congress which authorized its establishment in 1908 had feared, a federal secret police. It evaded public scrutiny and invad...
By: NO Exit...
Bush wants retroactive protection for wiretapping...
2008-02-28 20:58:00 Didn't see this one coming a mile away......add to the laundry list of indictable charges this admin keeps racking up (which is genius in some perverse way), President Bush strongly urged the House (by furling his forehead and banging his fist on a podium) to pass a bill that would RETROACTIVELY protect and telecom firms complicit in aiding government eavesdropping. Sounds like more new fun
Supreme Court Passes on Warrantless Wiretapping Case
2008-02-22 08:03:00 From FEDagent.com On Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to review a legal challenge to the Bush Administration’s warrantless surveillance program. The case was brought by the American Civil Liberties Union on behalf of journalists, scholars, attorneys and national nonprofit organizations who say that the surveillance program is disrupting their ability to communicate effectively with sources ...
SCOTUS Says Wiretapping Terrorists Legal Again!
2008-02-19 20:57:00 Via Rusty at The Jawa Report (through al Reuters) The administration abandoned the program about a year ago, putting it under the surveillance court that Congress created more than 30 years ago. The high court’s action means that Bush will be able to disregard whatever legislative eavesdropping restrictions Congress adopts as there will be no meaningful judicial ...
By: Pirate's Cove
Senate votes in favor of wiretapping program
2008-02-13 04:32:00 Today, the U.S. Senate cast the vote for and ultimately passed a wiretapping program initiated by President George W. Bush that gives more power to the government to spy on it’s citizens, and gives participating telephone companies legal protection. Government agencies no longer need to obtain warrants to tap into telephone calls. The vote passed ...
By: Politinks
Wiretapping debate in Congress resumes Tuesday
2008-01-29 02:20:00 Wiretapping debate in Congress resumes TuesdayThe U.S. Senate effectively postpones debate on legislation to extend wiretapping laws -- and immunize any telecos who violated Americans' privacy -- for one day. http://ww-w.news.com/8301-13578_3...
President Bush Seeks Broader Wiretapping Authority
2008-01-25 22:06:00 President Bush says the government's ability to listen-in on telephone calls is critical to fighting terror."One of the most important tools is to be able to figure out the intentions of an enemy that still wants to do us harm," he said. "If they are making calls into America, we need to know why they are calling, what they are thinking, and what they are planning." U.S. intelligence agents currently monitor international phone calls between people in the United States and suspected terrorists under a law known as the Protect America Act. That law expires next Friday, but President Bush says the threat to America will not. He wants legislation that permanently extends that authority, grants broader powers to wiretap without court approval and gives legal immunity to telephone companies that have helped the government monitor communications. "It will maintain the vital flow of intelligence on terrorist threats," he added. "It will...
By: PhreQuency Ent.
Showdown Over FISA Expected Monday
2008-01-25 21:29:00 One week from today, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) will expire unless Congress passes a new version that President Bush is willing to sign. If it expires, our intelligence gatherers here and abroad will be rendered blind and deaf because the legality of their operations will be put in limbo. Here is what the ...
By: The Hot Joints
AT&T, Verizon May Be Granted Immunity For Illegal Wiretapping
2008-01-25 00:20:00 Right now, big telecom companies including AT&T have a chance of walking away with retroactive immunity after participating in the Bush administration's wiretapping program that was later ruled unconstitutional. A bill that is currently under consideration in the Senate revises the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act and would grant full retroactive immunity to the telecom giants for their participation in the illegal program that was utilized to spy on American civilians.
New Intelligence Director Has Big Plans For Cyberspace Spying
2008-01-15 01:13:00 An article in today’s Wall Street Journal will likely cause seizures at the ACLU and among Congressional Democrats. The new Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell is drafting a plan to protect America?s cyberspace that will raise privacy issues and make the current debate over FISA and wiretapping look like a “walk in the park.” ?This is ...
By: The Hot Joints
Sen. Larry Craig Implicated in Wiretapping Scandal
2007-12-17 10:31:00 KOCKRING, IDAHO...12/17/07 7:00am EST... Responding to newly surfaced reports proving his involvement in the forming Bush/Cheney Wiretapping Scandal, Senator Larry Craig (R ID) stated, "I have long been a champion of family values, straight-marriage, guns and patriotism, so I will not comment on my involvement." Asked by a reporter to explain why the reports indicate that he personally surveiled, from his Senate office up to twenty hours per day, the phone number 877-BIG-DICK, which is known to be a proprietary sex telephone number, Craig responded "Again, I'm a champion of family values . . . and I was, umm, conducting research for upcoming legislation." Asked then why his left forearm is twice the size of his right forearm, Senator Larry Craig reponded "Well . . . ummm, my research is very thorough."..AUTHOR'S NOTE: As is widely known, the "Big Brother" concept is central to many conspiracy theories. However, given the emerging Bush/Cheney Wiretapping Scandal, it appears they mi...
By: Press Mess Blog
Al-Timimi and NSA Wiretapping: What The Government Is Not Telling Us
2007-11-19 11:53:00 There is an important hearing scheduled in the case of Ali Al-Timimi in federal district court tomorrow. In 2006, federal prosecutors in Alexandria, Virginia, where al-Timimi was convicted, consented to the decision by the Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit in Richmond, Virginia, to send the case back to U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema for further hearings. The district court may determine whether NSA-gathered evidence was used against al-Timimi without the court having been told. She also could press the government to reveal whether it withheld evidence gathered by the NSA that could have helped al-Timimi’s defense. Sometime during 2002, authorities learned that Ali Al-Timimi was in contact with Bin Laden’s mentor, dissident Saudi sheik al-Hawali. The detention of al-Hawali had been the express subject of Bin Laden’s 1996 declaration of war and the claim of responsibility for the 1998 embassy bombings. Rather than pointing to the intercepts of con...
Bush Gives Clearances for Wiretapping Investigation
2007-11-15 21:30:00 nytimes: WASHINGTON, Nov. 13 ? Just four days after Michael B. Mukasey was sworn in as attorney general, Justice Department officials said Tuesday that President Bush had reversed course and approved long-denied security clearances for the Justice Department?s ethics office to investigate the National Security Agency?s warrantless surveillance program. The department?s inspector general has been ...
By: Thought-Blender
Wiretapping whistle-blower, Mark Klein, Visits Washington to protest Immuni
2007-11-08 19:29:00 Mark Klein, a former AT&T technician and the wiretapping whistle-blower, whose allegations that his former employer wiretapped the internet on behalf of the government, largely holing up the the lawsuit against AT&T have visited Washington to persuade Lawmakers not to deliver a blow to the law suite.The Senate Judiciary Committee will vote on the surveillance bill today.But according to TPM Muckraker's Spencer Ackerman, Klein is finally getting the media and other attesion that have evaded him for last two years, ever since he revealed the new about the secret room 641A. The New York Times also carries an articleHere is a Video of Mark Klein outs the NSA on Olbermann;Tags: NSA, wiretapping, whistle-blower, AT&T, Mark Klein, Olbermann, youtube
John Aschcroft Talks Telecom Immunity in Op-Ed
2007-11-05 15:32:00 Former Attorney General John Ashcroft has a very good Op-Ed in the NY Times today about immunity for telecom companies that cooperated on the War on Terror. The National Security Agency asked the various telecommunications companies in the U.S. for assistance in listening to terrorist phone calls. The Justice Department sent each company a letter assuring ...
By: The Hot Joints
Richardson urges Senate to reject telecommunications wiretapping immunity b
2007-10-24 21:25:00 Democratic presidential candidate Gov. Bill Richardson (D-NM) today urged the U.S. Senate to reject a bill that would provide immunity to telecommunications companies who helped the Bush administration secretly eavesdrop domestic telephone calls and computers from September 11, 2001-this year.
Bush Started Wiretapping Americans Before 9/11
2007-10-21 20:11:00 Joseph Nacchio, the former CEO of Qwest, testified that the Bush administration, via the NSA, "had asked Qwest to participate in a warrantless spying program more than six months before the terror attacks of September 11, 2001, citing court documents unsealed in Denver"."According to Nacchio's account, the surveillance proposal was made at a meeting on Feb. 27, 2001, the report said."Qwest refused to participate, believing the request to be illegal. "Qwest's decision not to participate in the surveillance program prompted the government to cancel a separate NSA contract", which effectively hurt the struggling company.So much for "9/11 changed everything". Seems to me that 9/11 just shifted the Bush administration's already formed plans into overdrive.
Game Point, Bush Wins: Dems ?Wuss Out? on Wiretapping Bill
2007-10-18 23:01:00 washingtonpost.com: Senate Democrats and Republicans reached agreement with the Bush administration yesterday on the terms of new legislation to control the federal government’s domestic surveillance program, which includes a highly controversial grant of legal immunity to telecommunications companies that have assisted the program, according to congressional sources. Disclosure of the deal followed a decision by ...
By: Thought-Blender
The media ignore Bush's pre-9/11 illegal wiretapping. And we're surprised?
2007-10-18 00:00:00 The mass media have so far largely ignored former Qwest Communications CEO Joseph Nacchio's assertion that George Bush's illegal spying on American citizens began before the 9/11 terror attacks. There are three possible reasons for this oversight by the press:...
Politics: Former Qwest Communications CEO Says Warrantless Wiretapping In P
2007-10-16 13:12:00 The Washington post published an article detailing how Qwest communications was asked to allow wiretapping more than six months before September 11, 2001: Former chief executive Joseph P. Nacchio, convicted in April of 19 counts of insider trading, said the NSA approached Qwest more than six months before the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, according to court ...
By: What a Weenie!
Bush Illegal Wiretapping Scheme Gets Darker and Dirtier
2007-10-15 19:22:00 by Chris Floyd Uruknet The latest revelations in the Bush Administration’s long-unfolding, ever-growing illegal wiretapping scandal carry with them a multiple string. For not only do they bear upon Bush’s vast system of lawless espionage aimed at the American people, but they also underscore the perversion of the Justice Department into an armed enforcer of partisan thuggery ...
By: Current Era Blog
Dead Republic Blues: Bush Illegal Wiretapping Scheme Gets Darker and Dirtie
2007-10-15 11:45:00 Sudhan@11:45 CET urkunet.info, October 15, 2007 Chris Floyd , Empire Burlesque The latest revelations in the Bush Administration’s long-unfolding, ever-growing illegal wiretapping ...
By: Suzie-Q
Vulnerabilities in the FBI wiretapping system
2007-09-07 02:01:00 EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation) published details about FBI, in particular how it leads espionage activities. The report shows how FBI can intercept every communication without users' permission. But this report also informs about gaps in the FBI wiretapping system.
Spy chief reveals details of operations
2007-08-23 16:29:00 WASHINGTON ? The nation’s top intelligence official has confirmed that a federal court did rule the Bush administration’s warrantless wiretapping program was in violation of the law, prompting the mad rush in Congress this month to overhaul key espionage provisions. In an interview with a Texas newspaper, Director of National Intelligence J. Michael McConnell also disclosed ...
By: The Hot Joints
U.S. wiretapping program ruled illegal
2007-08-23 04:27:00 WASHINGTON -- The nation's top intelligence official has confirmed that a federal court did rule the Bush administration's warrantless wiretapping program was in violation of the law, prompting the mad rush in Congress earlier this month to overhaul
By: Get rich
U.S. wiretapping program ruled illegal
2007-08-23 04:27:00 WASHINGTON -- The nation's top intelligence official has confirmed that a federal court did rule the Bush administration's warrantless wiretapping program was in violation of the law, prompting the mad rush in Congress earlier this month to overhaul
By: Get rich
More FISA Fear-Mongering: The New York Times Strikes Again
2007-08-21 23:13:00 So, have you heard the latest? Your business records can now be taken away by Big Brother without a warrant, thanks to that Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act-reform bill Darth Bush ? an unstoppable force of nature with 30-percent approval ratings ? just slammed through the notorious wallflower also known as the Democratic Congress. Yup, all ...
By: The Hot Joints
Vice President Cheney Defiantly Claims To Be Sitting On Wiretapping Documen
2007-08-21 07:25:00 For a quick “refresher”; the OFFICIAL duties of the Vice President Of The United States of America (WikiPedia) again: Role of the Vice President Duties The formal powers and role of the vice president are limited by the Constitution to becoming President in the event of the death or resignation of the President and acting as the presiding ...
Bush Administration Has Been Using Illegal Wiretapping and Spying Activity
2007-08-20 18:14:00 BUZZFLASH In an under covered trial in a California courtroom, a Constitutional drama is unfolding of major significance. It a federal lawsuit filed by Americans who claim that the Bush Administration, with the cooperation of AT&T, illegally spied on them. The Bush Administration has taken the Orwellian position that the trial must not be allowed to proceed ...
By: Current Era Blog
Plot Thickens Regarding Gonzales Visit to Hospitalized Ashcroft
2007-08-17 21:33:00 Attorney General Alberto Gonzales has been under intense pressure from the Democratically controlled Congress, and has been accused of a myriad of crimes. For the most part I consider the vast majority of these investigations to be nothing more than political theater committed by a Democrat controlled Congress looking for political points in the upcoming Presidential ...
By: The Hot Joints
Notes Confirm Pressure on Ashcroft Over Spy Program
2007-08-17 10:00:00 Then-Attorney General John D. Ashcroft was “feeble,” “barely articulate” and “stressed” moments after a hospital room confrontation in March 2004 with Alberto R. Gonzales, who wanted Ashcroft to approve a warrantless wiretapping program over Justice Department objections, according to notes from FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III that were released yesterday. One of Mueller’s entries in ...
By: The Hot Joints
Security Threat In the New Wiretapping LawSearch Slashdot
2007-08-15 01:25:00 The NSA wants automatic surveillance capabilities in telephone switches. But once such capabilities are built in, others could use them to intercept communications. Within 10 years this could render the US vulnerable to attacks from terrorist groups across the globe, as well as from the military establishments of other nations. “Such threats are not theoretical: ...
By: Technology Blog
The Security Threat in the New Wiretapping Law
2007-08-14 20:14:00 A Gateway for HackersThe Security Threat in the New Wiretapping LawBy Susan LandauThursday, August 9, 2007; A17 Current administration policy is replete with examples of quickly enacted efforts whose consequences led to the opposite effect. (Beware of what you wish for . . . .) With Congress caving last week, the National Security Agency no longer needs a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant to wiretap if one party is believed to be outside the United States. This change looks reasonable at first, but it could create huge long-term security risks for the United States. The immediate problem is fiber optics. Until recently, telecommunication signals came through the air. The NSA used satellites and antennas to pick up conversations of foreigners talking to other foreigners. Modern communications, however, use fiber; since conversations don't go through the air, the NSA wants to access communications at land-based switches. Because communications from around the world...
By: for bored mindz
New wiretapping law
2007-08-14 19:41:00 IT: Security Threat In the New Wiretapping Law Journal written by Jeremiah Cornelius (137) and posted by kdawson on Tuesday August 14, @03:17AM from the gateway-for-hackers dept. The NSA wants automatic surveillance capabilities in telephone switches. But once such capabilities are built in, others could use them to intercept communications. Within 10 years this could render the US vulnerable to attacks from terrorist groups across the globe, as well as from the military establishments of other nations. "Such threats are not theoretical: In April 2004, phones belonging to members of the Greek government, including the prime minister, were spied on with wiretapping software that was misused."source : slashdot.org
By: for bored mindz
Warrentless-and-Legal Flava Wiretapping?Now at a Snoop Shop Near You
2007-08-09 00:39:00 "The White House maintained Monday that the surveillance measure signed into law by President Bush over the weekend did not give the government any sweeping new powers to eavesdrop on Americans without court warrants." Thus speaketh The New York Times.Did anyone ever wonder that maybe the White House is right? The newly signed surveillance measure did not, in fact, give new powers to eavesdrop on Americans without court warrant because the eavesdropping powers already in place are powerful enough.How the framers of the U.S. Constitution would roll in their graves with this new?now fully sanctioned?level of the decimation of democracy by an uber-powerful Federal government that can pop on over and check out your stupid joke e-mail, your testosterphone calls ("I'm on my way home now." "OK, hon. See you in a few. Bye"), your heated conversations with your annoying neighbor?all at any time for no reason. Well, let's just say the words "suspected terrorism" as a reason and b'gosh, any...
By: Tumerica
New York Times Story on FISA Legislation
2007-08-08 14:13:00 Statement by Deputy Press Secretary Tony Fratto on New York Times Story on FISA Legislation. Today's New York Times story by James Risen makes the unfounded claim that new FISA legislation has "broadly expanded the government's authority to eavesdrop on the international telephone calls and e-mail messages American citizens without warrants." This is highly misleading.Revolutionary changes in technology have occurred since FISA was enacted in 1978, and those changes have resulted in FISA--contrary to the intent of Congress in 1978--often requiring the government to get a court order to collect information on foreign terrorists and other foreign targets located overseas. The new law makes clear that a court order is not required to conduct surveillance of foreign intelligence targets located overseas.But under FISA, court approval is required for the government to target an individual located in the United States, and nothing in the new law changes that.Congress has recognized ther...
Warrantless Wiretapping Approved
2007-08-07 07:21:00 From the NY Post:President Bush signed into law on Sunday legislation that broadly expanded the government?s authority to eavesdrop on the international telephone calls and e-mail messages of American citizens without warrants....the new law for the first time provides a legal framework for much of the surveillance without warrants that was being conducted in secret by the National Security Agency and outside the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, the 1978 law that is supposed to regulate the way the government can listen to the private communications of American citizens.?This more or less legalizes the N.S.A. program,? said Kate Martin, director of the Center for National Security Studies in Washington, who has studied the new legislation.Previously, the government needed search warrants approved by a special intelligence court to eavesdrop on telephone conversations, e-mail messages and other electronic communications between individuals inside the United States and people ov...
By: Dyre Portents
New York Times Story on FISA Legislation
2007-08-07 04:07:00 Statement by Deputy Press Secretary Tony Fratto on New York Times Story on FISA Legislation. Today's New York Times story by James Risen makes the unfounded claim that new FISA legislation has "broadly expanded the government's authority to eavesdrop on the international telephone calls and e-mail messages American citizens without warrants." This is highly misleading.Revolutionary changes in technology have occurred since FISA was enacted in 1978, and those changes have resulted in FISA--contrary to the intent of Congress in 1978--often requiring the government to get a court order to collect information on foreign terrorists and other foreign targets located overseas. The new law makes clear that a court order is not required to conduct surveillance of foreign intelligence targets located overseas.But under FISA, court approval is required for the government to target an individual located in the United States, and nothing in the new law changes that.Congress has recognized ther...
Pelosi Requests Conyers and Reyes Offer Legislation to Amend FISA ?As Soon
2007-08-06 19:37:00 Washington, D.C. - In a letter to Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers, Jr. and Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Chairman Silvestre Reyes, Speaker Nancy Pelosi requested that the Committees report to the House “as soon as possible after Congress reconvenes,” legislation to amend the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). Pelosi said that S. 1927, the ...
By: The Hot Joints
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