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The founder of TMZ.com is promising a fight, saying the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department illegally obtained his phone records in its investigation into who leaked a report on Mel Gibson's 2006 drunken driving arrest, including details on the actor's anti-Semitic tirade.
The FBI did not abuse its authority when it seized the phone records of two journalists, according to the bureau's top lawyer, who attributed the improper behavior to simple miscommunication.
FBI Director Robert Mueller has apologized to the editors of The Washington Post and The New York Times for improperly obtaining phone records of the newspapers' reporters while investigating terrorism four years ago.
A federal judge refused to rush the release of Hillary Rodham Clinton's phone records from her days as first lady and, in doing so Tuesday, offered a conservative watchdog group a manners lesson straight from the playground.
Citing national security, a federal judge Tuesday threw out a lawsuit aimed at blocking AT&T Inc. from giving telephone records to the government for use in the war on terror.
A lawsuit filed Monday on behalf of author Studs Terkel and other professionals seeks to stop AT&T from giving customer phone records to the National Security Agency without a court order.
Verizon Communications Inc. says it did not give the government records of millions of phone calls, joining fellow phone company BellSouth in disputing key assertions in a USA Today article.
Two judges on the secretive court that approves warrants for intelligence surveillance were told of the broad monitoring programs that have raised recent controversy, a Republican senator said Tuesday, connecting a court to knowledge of the collecting of millions of phone records for the first time.
BellSouth says it has no evidence it was contacted by a U.S. spy agency or gave the government access to any of its customers' phone call records, disputing a published report that sparked a national debate on federal surveillance tactics.
Lawmakers demanded answers from the Bush administration Thursday about a spy agency secretly collecting records of millions of ordinary Americans' phone calls to build a database of all calls within the country.
Following a wave of negative publicity and pressure from the government, several Web sites that peddled people's private phone records are calling it quits.
Matt Blaze: The Metadata is the MessageWarrantless wiretapping is back in the news, thanks largely to Michael Isikoff's cover piece in the December 22 issue of Newsweek.
The FBI Admits to Spying on NYT and WaPo Reporters in 2004In the dull drone of a late Friday afternoon in Washington in August -- you know, when absolutely nothing happens? -- FBI Director Robert Muller called Bill Keller and Len Downie, executive editors of the New York Times and Washington Post, to inform them that in 2004, the bureau …
F.B.I. Says It Obtained Reporters' Phone RecordsThe Federal Bureau of Investigation said Friday that it had improperly obtained the phone records of reporters for The New York Times and The Washington Post in the newspapers' Indonesia bureaus in 2004.
Top Spy Asked to Explain Pre-9/11 Spying AllegationsHouse Judiciary Chairman John Conyers is asking the Justice Department and the head of national intelligence to answer startling allegations that the National Security Agency's still-unconfirmed call records data mining program started 7 months before the terrorist attacks of 9/1 …
Pentagon, FBI misusing secret info requests: ACLUThe Pentagon has misled Congress and the US public by conniving with the FBI to obtain hundreds of financial, telephone and Internet records without court approval, civil-rights campaigners said Sunday.
Qwest CEO Not Alone in Alleging NSA Started Domestic Phone Record Program 7 Months Before 9/11Startling statements from former Qwest CEO Joseph Nacchio's defense documents alleging the National Security Agency began building a massive call records database seven months before 9/11 aren't the only accusations that the controversial program predated the attacks of 9/11.
Spy Chief's Crazy Interview Can't Save Anti-Data Mining Suit, Feds Tell CourtGovernment attorneys fighting to have anti-spying lawsuits against the nation's telecoms dismissed on the grounds of national security argued in a Wednesday court filing that the apparently revealing remarks of the nation's top spook to an El Paso Times reporter aren't damning at …
Police on terror alert over theft of top secret records on computer databaseA major security alert has been sparked after the theft of a computer database containing thousands of top secret telephone records from police investigations into terrorism and organised crime.
Your Help Needed in Analyzing FBI DocsLacking something to read at the beach this summer? Problem solved: There are 1,138 pages detailing FBI activity that need to be pored over by good citizens so as to ferret out abuse of power.
Federal judge allows NSA wiretapping investigations to continueA federal judge in California ruled on Tuesday that five states may continue their investigations of allegations that AT&T participated in a National Security Agency wiretapping program.
FBI Seeks To Pay Telecoms For DataThe FBI wants to pay the major telecommunications companies to retain their customers' Internet and phone call information for at least two years for the agency's use in counterterrorism investigations and is asking Congress for $5 million a year to defray the cost, according to …
Inspector General Confirms Probe of Rogue FBI Anti-Terror OfficeThe Justice Department's Inspector General, along with the FBI, are investigating an office that sent fake, emergency letters to telecoms requesting phone records despite not having applied for the future subpoenas promised in the letters and not having the authority to request t …
The DC Madam's phone list consists of literally years of records, thousands of lines, and untold calls. As you read this bloggers around the globe are pouring over these scanned pages.
Accused D.C. Madam Posts Phone Records OnlineThe phone records of the accused D.C. Madam have been posted online and are available for public viewing.
D.C. Madam Phone Records ReleasedToday, a federal judge denied the government's attempts to keep Deborah Jeane Palfrey, the D.C. madam, from disseminating her business' phone records. Now she's free to do what she will with them.
Judge lifts injunction on 'DC madam' phone recordsA judge in the US district court in Washington, D.C. has lifted the temporary restraining order (TRO) preventing the so-called 'DC madam,' Deborah Jeane Palfrey, from selling or distributing the list of phone records from her escort business.
FBI Finds It Frequently Overstepped in Collecting DataAn internal FBI audit has found that the bureau potentially violated the law or agency rules more than 1,000 times while collecting data about domestic phone calls, e-mails and financial transactions in recent years, far more than was documented in a Justice Department report in …
Shayana Kadidal: Comey and the Phone Companies' Role in the NSA ProgramOver at the Balkinization blog, Marty Lederman of Georgetown Law School breaks down Professor Kmiec's op-ed, and zeros in on one of the most interesting issues that Kmiec (perhaps inadvertently) highlights: "Why did the president seek the AG's signature, anyway, if it wasn't requ …
Verizon says phone record disclosure is protected free speechVerizon is one of the phone companies currently being sued over its alleged disclosure of customer phone records to the NSA. In a response to the court last week, the company asked for the entire consolidated case against it to be thrown out on free speech grounds.
The D.C. madam's phone records POSTEDABC has the most recent phone records, but Palfrey has thoughtfully posted online a sample page from her August 1996 Sprint long-distance bill. Recognize any of these phone numbers? See more popular articles
AT&T, Verizon: We Obeyed FBI "Emergency" Requests - 739 of ThemAs information about the FBI's national security letter snooping program continues to surface, one of the more troubling details has been the bureau's cozy relationship with AT&T and Verizon, both of which companies entered into contracts with the government that made it disturbi …
Madame to Sell 10,000 Phone Records of High-End Washington ClientsDeborah J. Palfrey is unhappy. And, if you know who Deborah J. Palfrey is—and especially if you know her by Jeane—you probably don't want her unhappy.
US 109th Congress outlaws pretextingA law passed late last week—right before the 109th Congress wrapped up its final session—will outlaw pretexting, the practice of obtaining someone else's phone records without their permission.
NSA Case Becomes Lawyer JunketForty-eight lawsuits against the nation's largest telecommunications companies for alleged participation in a warrantless government surveillance program had their first day all together in court Friday, in a courtroom packed with more than two dozen lawyers for the government, t …
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