NYC police head: FISA response better after flap

The process for obtaining federal permission for New York Police Department investigators to eavesdrop on terrorism suspects has improved since a recent clash with the Justice Department, Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said Tuesday.

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OK to Spy on Kidnappers Took 9 Hours

Last spring, with insurgents apparently holding three American soldiers in Iraq, it took the U.S. government more than nine hours to begin emergency surveillance of some of the kidnappers' electronic communications.

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White House Gives Details on Surveillance

After weeks of insisting it would not reveal details of its eavesdropping without warrants, the White House reversed course Wednesday and provided a House committee with highly classified information about the operation.

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The Bush-era torture regime might have been that administration's most flamboyant act of criminality, but its illegal NSA warrantless eavesdropping program (and other still-unknown surveillance programs) has always been the clearest.

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The Bush administration built an unprecedented surveillance operation to pull in mountains of information far beyond the warrantless wiretapping previously acknowledged, a team of federal inspectors general reported Friday, questioning the legal basis for the effort but shielding …

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The Times said that it published the story out of concerns about the program's legality, although Risen, Lichtblau and the Times editors have shown no particular understanding of the legal issues involved.

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The above quote about Midhar and Hazmi and is from Gen.

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While the Bush administration had defended its program of wiretapping without warrants as a vital tool that saved lives, a new government review released Friday said the program's effectiveness in fighting terrorism was unclear.

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Hoping to protect its top-secret operations by decentralizing its massive computer hubs, the National Security Agency will build a 1-million-square-foot data center at Utah's Camp Williams. The years-in-the-making project, which may cost billions over time, got a $181 million st …

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On Wednesday June 3, 2009 U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker dismissed the lawsuits against the nation's telecoms for participation in the drag-net electronic surveillance program that captured untold riches about who we all really are.

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Judge Rules Telecoms Have Immunity Under Unconstitutional FISA Amendments Act

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Federal district judge Vaughn Walker has rejected lawsuits that aimed to hold telecommunications companies accountable for their role in a controversial warrantless surveillance program that was orchestrated in secret by the federal government.

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Conservatives Worry About DHS Now That The Shoe Is On The Other Foot

If only someone could have predicted this. If only someone could have said maybe the massive expansion of the executive's surveillance and intelligence capacity will be abused for political purposes. Oh, that's right; they did.

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The National Security Agency intercepted private e-mail messages and phone calls of Americans in recent months on a scale that went beyond the broad legal limits established by Congress last year, government officials said in recent interviews.

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So..what is good for the goose is not good for the gander? Other catchy cliches come to mind, but the long and short of it is have a taste of your own medicine wingnuts.

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New and worse secrecy and immunity claims from the Obama DOJ... Heck yes! The Obama administration is doing the same thing GW Bush did with FISA...

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President Barack Obama invoked "state secrets" to prevent a court from reviewing the legality of the National Security Agency's warantless wiretapping program, moving late Friday to have a lawsuit that challenged the program dismissed.

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Anyone interested in President Obama's actual executive-power policies, however, should look at his position on warrantless wiretapping. Dick Cheney must be smiling.

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The Obama administration has asked a federal judge in San Francisco to uphold a law aimed at dismissing suits against telecommunications companies that cooperated with President George W. Bush's wiretapping program.

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Let me give you some good news and some positive solutions. First, the good news is we should stop all bailouts of all banks. Let them fail. Let them go to Hell.

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HRH Obama?

The election of Barak Obama was greeted in America with hope. That was one of the main themes of his campaign. The other was "Change". He doesn't promise we'll LIKE that change, but he does promise change. After 8 years of Bush The Idiot, any change seemed like it would be good.

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In a tale of widespread, warrantless wiretapping, Russell Tice, a former National Security Agency analyst, claimed that the Bush administration engaged in extensive electronic surveillance of Americans. His revelations were made on Keith Olbermann's MSNBC show.

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An eye-opening op-ed from the WSJ: "In a major August 2008 decision released yesterday in redacted form, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review, the FISA appellate panel, affirmed the government's Constitutional authority to collect national-security intelligence w …

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Summary: A Wall Street Journal editorial claimed that, in a recently released decision, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review affirmed the legality of the Bush administration's "warrantless wiretapping program" that "was exposed in 2005." In fact, the decision app …

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A special federal appeals court yesterday released a rare declassified opinion that backed the government's authority to intercept international phone conversations and e-mails from U.S.

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A federal intelligence court, in a rare public opinion, issued a major ruling validating the power of the president and Congress to wiretap international phone calls and intercept e-mail messages without a specific court order, even when Americans' private communications may b …

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Yes, Virgina, Obama did vote for wiretaps.

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A federal intelligence court, in a rare public opinion, issued a major ruling validating the power of the president and Congress to wiretap international phone calls and intercept e-mail messages without a specific court order, even when Americans' private communications may be …

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