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Obama Administration Moves to Have Supreme Court Throw Out FISA Amendments...
The Obama Administration wants the Supreme Court to dismiss an American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) challenge to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) Amendments Act, an act passed in 2008...
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Warrantless Wiretapping Law Hearing Highlights Surveillance State Secrecy
Photo: Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) A House Judiciary subcommittee held an oversight hearing today on the FISA Amendments Act of 2008 (FAA). The hearing was convened to examine the law before...
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Court Ruling Brings End to Lawsuit Against Bush Warrantless Wiretapping
Electronic Frontier Foundation for one of lawsuits it brought against NSA warrantless wiretapping/Flickr Photo by EFF) The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled against an Islamic charity that...
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Lawsuit Against NSA Warrantless Wiretapping Heads to Supreme Court
A law that legalized warrantless wiretapping conducted by the National Security Agency (NSA) will be argued at the United States Supreme Court in October. The lawsuit will be heard by the Supreme Court...
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A Few Senators Take a Stand for Civil Liberties Ahead of Surveillance Law...
Sen. Jeff Merkley of Oregon during Senate debate A surveillance law that granted the government expanded authority to collect the communications of foreign persons outside the United States four years...
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Senate Reauthorizes Surveillance Law for Five More Years Without Reform
Sen. Ron Wyden giving floor statement on FISA reauthorization The United States Senate reauthorized a surveillance law that grants the government expanded authority to collec communications of foreign...
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AP’s Coverage of Warrantless Surveillance Law Reauthorization Toes the...
As rare as it is for the Senate to have anything resembling a debate on a civil liberties issue such as privacy and government surveillance, there was a minimal amount of coverage in the establishment...
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Surveillance State Unchecked: Secret Spy Court Rejected Zero Requests in 2012
An annual report to the United States Senate by the Justice Department shows the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court did not deny one single request made to the court by federal law enforcement....
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NSA Whistleblower: Justice Department Covers Up Crimes of Obama, Bush...
In a recent segment from Current TV‘s show “Viewpoint,” host Eliot Spitzer interviewed three National Security Agency whistleblowers: William Binney, a former technical director;...
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Despite Hurricane Sandy, Supreme Court Hears Argument Over Whether NSA...
US Supreme Court (Photo by dbking) The United States Supreme Court heard a legal challenge being brought by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) against the FISA Amendments Act (FAA) of 2008...
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Secret NSA Exceptions Allow ‘Inadvertently’ Collected US Information to Be...
Policies approved by a United States secret surveillance court allows the National Security Agency to retain information on US persons that is “inadvertently” collected. And, according to documents...
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