FISA – Patriot Act

FISA – Patriot Act

 

 

Keith Olbermann Special comment regarding FISA

Video Highlighters: 

 

Keith Olbermann Special comment regarding FISA

Senators Obama, Clinton, McCain – The Patriot Act

DOMESTIC SPYING: Intelligence Chief Testifies on FISA

FISA/WIRETAPPING BILL: Speaker Nancy Pelosi

DOMESTIC SPYING: Rep. Conyers’ Opening Remarks

HARRY REID: FISA Deal With Dodd, Feingold in the Works

DOMESTIC SPYING: Rep. Scott Questions Intel Chief on FISA

DOMESTIC SPYING: Rep. Lungren Questions Intel Chief on FISA

DOMESTIC SPYING: Rep. Berman Questions Intel Chief on FISA

FISA/WIRETAPPING BILL: Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN)

FISA/WIRETAPPING: Dem Bill Falls Short – Rep. Rush Holt/D-NJ

FISA/WIRETAPPING BILL: Rep. Frank Pallone (D-NJ)

FISA/WIRETAPPING BILL: Rep. Joe Wilson (R-SC)

DOMESTIC SPYING: Rep. Smith’s Opening Remarks 

 

 

 

 

News Wires & Blogs:

1. Quantico Circus from ACLU Blog – Government Spying by blog@aclu.org (Amanda Simon, ACLU) Today the Washington Post took us further into the Quantico Circuits and the problems inherent within. The circuits link together the FBI and phone companies and are used during wiretap investigations. Last month, a whistleblower named Babak Pasdar came forward to disclose the existence of the Quantico circuit. They can tell FBI investigators the length of the call, the callers’ identities and the location of the callers — a nice reminder that when you’re using your phone you’re a walking homing beacon.
2. Administration Set to Use New Spy Program in U.S. from Wash Post – Politics by Spencer S. Hsu The Bush administration said yesterday that it plans to start using the nation’s most advanced spy technology for domestic purposes soon, rebuffing challenges by House Democrats over the idea’s legal authority.
3. FBI Data Transfers Via Telecoms Questioned from Wash Post – Politics by Ellen Nakashima When FBI investigators probing New York prostitution rings, Boston organized crime or potential terrorist plots anywhere want access to a suspect’s telephone contacts, technicians at a telecommunications carrier served with a government order can, with the click of a mouse, instantly transfer key…
4. Chat About Bush’s Civil Liberties Transgressions from ACLU Blog – Government Spying by blog@aclu.org (Suzanne Ito, ACLU) Professor Erwin Chemerinsky, Dean of UC Irvine’s law school, will be on FireDogLake this afternoon at 1:30 p.m. EDT to discuss the Bush administration’s innumerable violations of Americans’ civil liberties. Chermerinsky discusses the Yoo torture memo, FISA and the human rights violations at Guantanamo in today’s FireDogLake piece.
5. Illinois Eyes GPS Use in Tracking Restraining Orders from NPR Topics: Politics
   The Illinois legislature is considering a law that would allow police to monitor high-risk restraining-order subjects by using GPS technology. Harvard Law School lecturer Diane Rosenfeld, who proposed a similar bill that passed in Massachusetts last year, discusses the Illinois initiative.
6. Secret Memo Justified Warrantless Surveillance in U.S. from FOXNews.com by oxnewsonline@foxnews.com A 2001 Justice Department memo, referenced in a footnote to another memo released Tuesday, seems to justify warrantless domestic surveillance; the Bush administration disavows that view now.
7. Spring and Surveillance in the Air from ACLU Blog – Government Spying by blog@aclu.org (Amanda Simon, ACLU) Congress has come back to town (and so has baseball!) and with it comes renewed debate on updating the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act or FISA. We left off two weeks ago with the House refusing to take up the Senate bill and passing its own version of the spy legislation. Well, that leaves the Senate in a bit of a pickle since that put the ball squarely back in its court.
8. Debate and Protest at Spy Program’s Inception from NYT > Washington
   Concerns over the National Security Agency’s eavesdropping program are not new — it sparked heated legal concerns inside the Bush administration within hours of its adoption.
9. Terrorists Can be VIPs Too! from ACLU Blog – Privacy & Technology by log@aclu.org (Suzanne Ito, ACLU) The federal government has given Americans few reasons to trust it lately. From warrantless wiretapping to the surreptitious establishment of Total Information Awareness, the government is doing everything it can to keep a close eye on its citizens; it’s no coincidence that a retinal scan is part of this effort.
10. U.S. Now Among World’s Worst Surveillance Societies from ACLU Blog – Privacy & Technology by blog@aclu.org (Suzanne Ito, ACLU) We’ve been warning for some time that we are dangerously close to turning into a surveillance society. We are far from alone, of course — many other countries are grappling with the same issues brought about by the
11. Who’s Watching the Watch List? from ACLU Blog – Privacy & Technology by blog@aclu.org (Noam Biale, Technology & Liberty Program) The good folks at the FBI’s Terrorism Screening Center are doing a bang-up job: they keep identifying more and more terrorists among us. Don’t believe me?
12. Privacy is Leaving the Building from ACLU Blog – Privacy & Technology by blog@aclu.org (Suzanne Ito, ACLU) It’s six minutes to midnight: does the government know where you are? You can be assured that with the total surveillance society, it probably does.
13. NSA Data-Mining: What We Know, So Far from ACLU Blog – Privacy & Technology by blog@aclu.org (Christina Drummond, ACLU of Washington) As someone who follows the government’s ravenous appetite for data collection and mining