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The House Stands Strong on Wiretapping
Good news from Washington today...the House of Representatives has stood tall for our civil liberties and the rule of law, and passed a much-improved wiretapping reform bill that does not contain retroactive immunity for telecom companies that cooperated in illegal...
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New Revelations of Telecom Partnership in Massive, Unfettered Surveillance
Kevin Poulsen at Threat Level reports on yet another disturbing instance of a telecom company partnering with the federal government to allow unfettered access to their customers voice and data traffic: A U.S. government office in Quantico, Virginia, has direct,...
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Some Things Never Change
Speakeasy Productions released this video when the wiretapping scandal first broke. And it's all still relevant. Keep the pressure on the Senate to change course....
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Tapping A Journalist's Phone
Via Christy Hardin Smith, Jeff Stein of CQ Politics has a must-read article of a prominent American journalist being eavesdropped by the government. Below is a lengthy excerpt of the piece, which leaves me very concerned about the ability of...
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What's more important to Clinton, McCain and Obama? Our Constitution, or their campaigns?
A very important debate will begin later this week in the Senate; will senators Clinton, McCain and Obama be there to defend our Constitution? Or will they stay out on the campaign trail, possibly leaving the Senate to shred the...
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A YouTube Republican Debate Question We Can Get Behind
We agree 100%... ...and the first step to a new direction is saying no to retroactive immunity....
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Thank You, MSM!
Remember the house RESTORE Act we told you about a few weeks ago? The one which both got rid of retroactive immunity and reaffirmed FISA's role? We were pretty big fans of that bill. Joe Klein, evidently, was not. So...
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Jack Cafferty: Revolutionary, Hero, CNN Commentator
On Wednesday, CNN's Jack Cafferty . From his show, the Cafferty File: The president of the United States didn't have the power to spy on Americans ... operate secret prisons ... suspend due process ... torture ... hide the conduct...
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With Great Power...
In Spiderman, Ben Parker advises his nephew Peter that "with great power comes great responsibility." I wish everyone had a Ben Parker. When President Bush was given the authorization to use force -- with the support of many Democratic Senators...
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Why Are the Big Telcos Suddenly Donating to Jay Rockefeller?
Senator Jay Rockefeller of West Virginia, who chairs the Senate Intelligence Committee, is reportedly the driving force behind an effort to give big telecommunications companies retroactive immunity for illegally turning over customer information to the National Security Agency. Now, you'll...
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Stepping Up on FISA
Chris Dodd is continuing to demonstrate what we talked about yesterday: that the demands of a political race could make people more courageous in governing, not more cautious. He's threatening to filibuster a bad FISA bill. Now, let's get other...
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Could Electoral Politics Lead to Better Governing
We generally assume that election season political maneuvering leads to bad policy in government. Let's remember, it was the fear-mongering of the '02 and '06 midterms that terrorized cowardly candidates into authorizing the use of force, and four years later...
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One More Reason to Block Immunity
Number 1 reason block immunity in the FISA bill: George Bush doesn't want you to. Take action now....
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Feingold Agrees: Illegal Domestic Spying is Bad
One of the good guys on the very bad thing the Senate is considering: As a member of the SSCI, I will strongly oppose any FISA legislation that fails to protect the rights of law-abiding Americans, overseas and here at...
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Stop Spying On Us
If the Senate really caves in and grants immunity to telephone companies that helped the Administration illegally spy on us, that would be a disaster. Thus we're leaving Becky's post on the subject up a little longer and going to...
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Not Everyone Agrees With Steny
Yesterday, Michael dared Congress to send Bush a FISA bill...that he'd veto. The President has made it clear he wants his telecom friends to have immunity for their illegal actions -- and to our great dismay, Steny Hoyer, the number...
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A Primer on Illegal Actions by Phone Companies
As we write about the FISA bill, we keep bringing up the concept of illegal actions taken by telephone companies. One reader asked for a little more info: what exactly did these companies do that was illegal? Well, we turned...
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The House RESTORE Act
More news on wiretapping...the House proposal has come out, and Think Progress has the round-up: * Restores court oversight of intelligence by requiring that electronic surveillance programs be approved by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) Court * Mandates that...
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Hope on Wiretapping?
We often start the day with negative news -- and often that's the news that warrants attention and action -- and the current road to capitulation on granting the President expanded wiretapping powers would fit that model. However, Glenn Greenwald...
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Clock is Ticking on Wiretapping
Monday morning FISA update -- or what our friends at Open Left report as a "capitulation." It's an issue we care a lot about -- that's why we are asking for your help to stop the President's wiretapping program. Don't...
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The Wiretapping Battle Continues
Contrary to warnings that Congress was going to cave today and announce a plan to approve Bush wiretapping, word now comes that any announcement is being postponed... Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-MD), the House Majority Leader, postponed a press conference announcing...
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Yes, Stop Believing
Will posted about our latest call to action: holding the administration and their collaborators in the telephone industry accountable for their illegal spying on the American public. Our friends at Headzup even put together a 30 second video on the...
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Will Congress Capitulate on Bush's Warrantless Wiretapping?
Back in 2005, the New York Times revealed that the Bush administration had been engaged in large-scale violations of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act -- and that big telecom companies, most notably AT&T, had cooperated in this lawbreaking. Earlier this...
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Will AT&T ever be held accountable for wiretapping Americans?
This just in from emptywheel by way of savetheinternet.com: ...one of AT&T's former key attorneys, Peter Keisler, just took over the Department of Justice. While advocates seem to believe the nation has dodged a bullet with the nomination of Mukasey...
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White House hearts AT&T
Yesterday, Michael Kieschnick blogged the El Paso Times interview with National Intelligence Director General Mike McConnell. The post called attention to McConnell's campaign to add retroactive protection to AT&T, Verizon, et al., for illegally turning over private data on Americans...
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Bush goes Gonzo on Wiretapping
Congress is on the verge of giving the Bush administration the power to wiretap American citizens without a warrant or court order. The L.A. Times reported yesterday that Bush is pressuring Congress to force Internet and telecom companies to provide...
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