FISA

Source: topics.nytimes.com --- 26 days ago
Lawmakers should bear in mind that President Bush’s version of the FISA does not make intelligence-gathering more robust. ...

Source: arstechnica.com --- 27 days ago
For the first time since Congress voted to approve retroactive immunity, the NSA surveillance lawsuit targeting telecoms was back before a federal judge Friday. Read More... ...

Source: www.moreover.com --- 30 days ago
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Source: isc.sans.org --- 41 days ago
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Source: www.ziua.ro --- 41 days ago
Dupa trei zile de tratament intensiv, se poate afirma ca medicatia recomandata de Ion Barbu si invitatii sai societatii noastre si-a facut partial efectul. Pacientul este inca grav bolnav, dar, din fericire, este recuperabil. Se poate trata prin ironie, prin bun-simt si prin comunicare. Bolile societatii noastre nu sunt ireversibile, iar tentativa lui Ion Barbu de a vindeca tarele romanilor va ... (S.S.) (01 septembrie 2008 ora 19:24:09) ...

Source: www.indybay.org --- 24 days ago
Last Friday the American Civil Liberties Union challenged the FISA Amendments Act (FAA) in Federal District Court in New York. But on the same day, Wired reported that Justice Department special counsel Anthony Coppolino informed U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker in San Francisco that the government would seek blanket immunity under FAA for spying telecoms. ...

Source: www.dissidentvoice.org --- 24 days ago
Last Friday the American Civil Liberties Union challenged the FISA Amendments Act (FAA) in Federal District Court in New York. But on the same day, Wired reported that Justice Department special counsel Anthony Coppolino informed U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker in San Francisco that the government would seek blanket immunity under FAA for spying telecoms. Calling [...] ...

Source: www.dailykos.com --- 3 days ago
I know mcjoan already covered this , but it's just such a surprise, such a shocker that I really want to bring it up again : Despite pledges by President George W. Bush and American intelligence officials to the contrary, hundreds of US citizens overseas have been eavesdropped on as they called friends and family back home, according to two former military intercept operators who worked at the giant National Security Agency (NSA) center in Fort Gordon, Georgia. [...] "These were just really everyday, average, ordinary Americans who happened to be in the Middle East, in our area of intercept and happened to be making these phone calls on satellite phones," said Adrienne Kinne, a 31-year old US Army Reserves Arab linguist assigned to a special military program at the NSA's Back Hall at Fort Gordon from November 2001 to 2003. Kinne described the contents of the calls as "personal, private things with Americans who are not in any way, shape or form associated with anything to do with terrorism." She said US military officers, American journalists and American aid workers were routinely intercepted and "collected on" as they called their offices or homes in the United States. Yes, what a surprise. I especially like the part of the story where Jay Rockefeller, chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, finds this "disturbing". Um... hello? Senator? This was pretty much what we were all telling you was happening, when you last rammed t ...

Source: blog.heritage.org --- 3 days ago
ABC News has a story out reporting that employees at the National Security Agency (NSA) listened in on “hundreds of US citizens overseas … as they called friends and family back home.” One employee described the contents of the calls as “personal, private things with Americans who are not in any way, shape or form associated with anything to do with terrorism.” nother employee ws even more specific: Faulk says he and others in his section of the NSA facility at Fort Gordon routinely shared salacious or tantalizing phone calls that had been intercepted, alerting office mates to certain time codes of “cuts” that were available on each operator’s computer. “Hey, check this out,” Faulk says he would be told, “there’s good phone sex or there’s some pillow talk, pull up this call, it’s really funny, go check it out. It would be some colonel making pillow talk and we would say, ‘Wow, this was crazy’,” Faulk told ABC News. The left is trying to portray this as the end of civil liberties as we know it and is desperately trying to tie the incident to this summer’s debate over FISA. Glenn Greenwald writes : “There is one reason and one reason only these abuses occurred: because George Bush broke the law — committed felonies — by ordering the NSA to eavesdrop on Americans without warrants.” The Center for American Progress blares : “Ever since President Bush confirmed the existence of a National Security Administration wiretapping program in ...

Source: www.bignewsnetwork.com --- 41 days ago
The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court denied on Thursday a second request from the American Civil Liberties Union that it open up its deliberations and issue unclassified rulings. Following t... ...

Source: lawlib.lclark.edu --- 27 days ago
Suit Over Wiretaps Proceeds Despite FISA Change ...

Source: scripting.disqus.com --- 30 days ago
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Source: www.headzup.tv --- 38 days ago
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Source: blog.johnjosephbachir.org --- 31 days ago
A 4th amendment activist group I’m working with, Get FISA Right, has been putting together TV advertisements. What does this mean? Well, thanks to a new company, SaysMe TV, we can put together an ad, and then have individuals fund it. It can be aired for as little as $6 a slot in some markets. Here [...] ...

Source: mondoglobo.wftk.org --- 39 days ago
ACLU request for public release of unclassified materials from secret court hearings rebuffed. Ars Technica reports In an opinion issued late Thursday, a judge for the secretive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court denied a motion by the American Civil Liberties Union, which had sought permission to participate in secret proceedings under the controversial FISA Amendments Act signed into law by President Bush last month. Pursuant to the new law, the FISC is empowered to review the targeting and minimization procedures employed by intelligence agencies carrying out warrant-less surveillance of foreign targets. Almost immediately upon the law's passage, the ACLU filed a motion making two requests of the Court: First, it asked that the government release unclassified, public versions of pleadings before the FISC and significant legal opinions issued by the court. Second, it had asked for permission to submit briefs and participate in hearings implicating the "scope, meaning, and constitutionality" of the new statute. Administration lawyers had strenuously urged the court to reject both requests . Judge Mary McLaughlin did just that yesterday in an 11-page opinion , summarily denying the civil liberties group's motion. After considering and rejecting the possibility that there might exist any common law or First Amendment right to the release of FISC records, McLaughlin declined to authorize such release as a matter of discretion, concl ...

Source: irregulartimes.com --- 25 days ago
Earlier this month, I unsuccessfully attempted to ascertain congressional candidate Mary Jo Kilroy’s position regarding the FISA Amendments Act, the new law permitting unlimited warrantless searches, seizures and surveillance for periods of up to 67 days. Kilroy demurred from providing a specific response, indicating that she wasn’t sufficiently familiar with the details of the [...] ...

Source: irregulartimes.com --- 34 days ago
Ralph Nader does not have the backing of a vast party machine. He does not have the rousing oratorical skill of a Bible-quoting preacher. But he does answer questions. I posed this question to him during a press conference in Columbus, Ohio shortly after 1:00 pm today: Jim Cook: If you were elected [...] ...

Source: camelsnose.wordpress.com --- 18 days ago
By now, everyone knows that Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin’s email got hacked. And why? Some anonymous comments on various blogs said they “did it for the lulz“. That is, for amusement. And now the McCain campaign has issued a statement: This is a shocking invasion of the Governor’s privacy and a violation of law. The [...] ...

Source: alterwords.wordpress.com --- 40 days ago
Here’s how the FISA court’s gonna work for ya America: A court created by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act denied an ACLU motion Thursday that would have increased public scrutiny of how the Bush administration’s new spying law is reviewed, according to a statement released Friday. The American Civil Liberties Union filed the motion 10 hours after [...] ...

Source: MinnieApolis.newsvine.com --- 24 days ago
EFF is fighting this surveillance on several fronts. In Hepting v. AT&T, EFF filed the first case against a telecom for violating its customers' privacy. ...