Domestic Spying

Source: www.msnbc.msn.com --- 27 days ago
Gov. Martin O'Malley has repeatedly condemned Domestic Spying by the Maryland State Police, but the WBAL TV 11 News I-Team has discovered a department under his watch as city mayor may have been involved. ...

Source: technorati.com --- 42 days ago
Senate Approves Telecom Amnesty, Expands Domestic Spying Powers - Via Threat Level: The U.S. Senate overwhelmingly voted Wednesday to grant retroactive amnesty to the telecoms that aided the President Bush's five-year secret, warrantless wiretapping of ...

Source: www.npr.org --- 40 days ago
The number of FISA warrants for Domestic Spying has risen sharply since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, by Islamist extremists. But the number of criminal cases against Islamist extremists has fallen in the same period. ...

Source: www.baltimoresun.com --- 44 days ago
NSA faces new limits, but surveillance thrives NSA faces new limits, but surveillance thrives ...

Source: thinkprogress.org --- 21 days ago
Yesterday, Sen. Sam Brownback (R-KS) expressed fear that “foreign-owned hotels in China face the prospect of ’severe retaliation’ if they refuse to install government software that can spy on Internet use by hotel guests coming to watch the summer Olympic games.” Brownback, who is pushing the Senate to urge China to reverse course, said China’s [...] ...

Source: tvnz.co.nz --- 16 days ago
The Pentagon said it was closing a controversial intelligence office that had raised concerns about Domestic Spying by the military after the September 11 attacks ...

Source: www.indybay.org --- 42 days ago
Wednesday, July 9, 2008 :The Democratic Partys presumptive presidential nominee voted Wednesday afternoon with a majority of the US Senate to pass legislation vastly expanding the governments power to carry out warrantless wiretapping and electronic surveillance, while handing blanket retroactive immunity to telecommunications companies that facilitated the illegal Domestic Spying operation in the US in the six years following the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. ...

Source: www.wbaltv.com --- 26 days ago
The head of Maryland's state police says a federal investigation into his agency's surveillance of anti-war and death penalty opposition groups is not needed. ...

Source: www.swamppolitics.com --- 42 days ago
by Katie Fretland Sweeping changes to the Domestic Spying bill, which encountered months of debate over national security versus privacy, won the approval of the Senate on Wednesday. The bill grants retroactive immunity to telecommunications companies for participation in the government's eavesdropping on Americans without warrants following the Sept. 11 attacks. Changes to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act dictate how the government can spy on suspected terrorists and foreign agents. Wednesday's overhaul, which passed 69 to 28, represents the broadest change to the bill since it was enacted 30 years ago. The measure now goes to Bush who says he will sign it. Sen. Barack Obama, under fire over his decision to support the bill he once threatened to filibuster, cast his vote in favor of the bill after three attempts to amend the bill failed on the Senate floor. His opponent, Sen. John McCain, whose campaign attacked Obama over the reversal, spent the day campaigning in Pennsylvania and did not vote. The main dispute over the bill was whether to grant immunity to telecommunications companies that cooperated in the Bush administration's warrantless wiretapping program. Some 40 lawsuits have been filed seeking billions of dollars from companies like Sprint Nextel Corp. and AT&T Inc. Bush directed telecom companies to tap phone and computer lines for about six years following Sept. 11, 2001, without the permission of a secret co ...

Source: ace.mu.nu --- 40 days ago
Horror. The US was listening in as FARC leader Nancy Conde phoned Miami contacts asking them for satellite phones. The FBI arrested the contacts, then double-agented them and coerced them to put Conde in touch with a company which would... ...

Source: www.disinfo.com --- 40 days ago
President George W. Bush signed a law on Thursday overhauling the rules for eavesdropping on terrorism suspects but immediately met a civil liberties challenge calling it a threat to Americans' privacy. "This law will protect the liberties of our citizens while maintaining the vital flow of intelligence," Bush said at a White House ceremony to mark a rare legislative victory for the president during his last year in office. The American Civil Liberties Union filed suit in Manhattan federal court as Bush signed the measure and called for the law to be voided as a violation of constitutional speech and privacy protections. "Spying on Americans without warrants or judicial approval is an abuse of government power, and that's exactly what this law allows," ACLU Executive Director Anthony Romero said in announcing the suit. ...

Source: youthinkwhat.com --- 27 days ago
Just one day before the nation began to celebrate its 232 birthday, on July 3, 2008, a California U.S. District Court judge handed down a very historic and noteworthy ruling. In the matter of Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation Inc. v. Bush, an important case in the ongoing dispute over Spying inside the United States sans warrant, [...] ...

Source: kfwb.com --- 41 days ago
President Bush signed a bill Thursday that overhauls rules about government eavesdropping and grants immunity to telecommunications companies that helped the U.S. spy on Americans. ...

Source: mpinkeyes.wordpress.com --- 49 days ago
Recently I wrote about how Russ Feingold didn’t have the courage of his supposed convictions and will not filibuster what the Democrats have labeled the Domestic Spying program. This is because despite the rhetoric, Democrats know that this is a vital tool for protecting the country. The only calls that might be monitored are [...] ...

Source: www.mankato-freepress.com --- 49 days ago
Congress is failing in its sworn duty of defending the Consitution by going along with the administration's Domestic surveillance program. ...

Source: tennviews.com --- 49 days ago
Big brother is watching you and his name is AT&T. Sometimes he goes by the name of BellSouth and at other times he is known as AOL-Time-Warner. Big brother goes by a lot of names. He is listening to you while you talk and watching you while you type and everything you say could be recorded so he can look at it somewhere down the line. Now everyone knows that it is not polite to intrude on people in their private moments. The problem is that big brother doesn't seem to know that peeking into people's private communication is wrong and it should be illegal. Unfortunately President Bush wants to continue to grant immunity to telecommunications companies in the name of the so called 'war on terror' which in actuality is a war on the American people and the telecommunications infrastructure is the front line in the gradual diminishment of civil rights that Congress has permitted in recent years. read more ...

Source: www.rationalreview.com --- 42 days ago
“With Congress on the verge of outlining new parameters for National Security Agency eavesdropping between suspicious foreigners and Americans, lawmakers are leaving largely untouched a host of government programs that critics say involves far more Domestic surveillance than the wiretaps they sought to remedy. These programs — most of them highly classified — are run [...] ...

Source: www.mystmakers.org --- 27 days ago
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Source: www.politicususa.com --- 13 days ago
Libertarian presidential candidate Bob Barr drew an interesting comparison today between the Domestic Spying of the Chinese government during the upcoming Olympics, and the Domestic Spying of the Bush administration on U.S. citizens. “The Olympics is about to begin in China, but visitors will find themselves living under the same restrictions on their liberties as Chinese citizens. The government is forcing foreign-owned hotels to install software to spy on guests’ internet use. The U.S. State Department says both phone calls and emails are subject to surveillance and warns that tourists ‘have no reasonable expectation of privacy in public or private locations.’ It sounds an awful lot like America today,” Barr said. He then discussed our government’s power to spy, “Obviously our government is not the same as the communist government in Beijing. But our government has acquired from Congress—and sometimes simply seized on its own—the power to electronically surveil citizens’ phone calls and e-mails. Under the Patriot Act and the just-expanded Foreign Surveillance Intelligence Act, the federal government can search our homes and computers and monitor our phone conversations and internet use with minimal – if any-- outside oversight. .. Indeed, the president of the United States claims that he can designate an American living in America as an “enemy combatant” and thereby deny him any rights under the Constitution,” Barr said. Barr also poi ...