in Al Haramain the government inadvertently gave the defense evidence it was spying on privileged communications, among other things; it was ruled inadmissable.
tea baggers threatening to start a civil war because of their 2nd amendment rights Obama hasn't taken away while he strips this country of 4th amendment rights
always has been, but that's better than nothing.
down with the patriot act. i cant believe there hasnt been a nationwide movement against this abomination of a bill.
the problem is that most Americans aren't immediately affected, so they go about their business, and really don't GAF about politics enough to even vote.
They realize that remote, inbred, myopic Beltway DC, either party, is not affected by popular opinion or their disenfranchised votes.
It's Bush's fault. He gave Obama the tools to do it with...
Once this kind of stuff gets started and bureaucratically consecrated, it's impossible to stop.
So yes, dubya, as is standard with Repugs, gave the national security police state ball a huge shove. no stopping it now.
Just another way that ...
America is ed and un able.
The national/local police/surveillance state is party-independent, will continue to increase under both parties, and no politicians can stop.
How would, eg, Barry roll back national/local militarized police/surveillance state?
they know dubya and head, FBI/NSA/CAI escaped blame incompetence for 9/11 and that the next one (which head promised us, trying to excuse himself and others, will be "when" non "if") won't be escapable.
OBL is laughing his ass off how how he ed up America and created generations on new America-hating terrorists for only $500K max.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/27/us...nce.html?_r=1&The Justice Department for the first time has notified a criminal defendant that evidence being used against him came from a warrantless wiretap, a move that is expected to set up a Supreme Court test of whether such eavesdropping is cons utional.
Prosecutors filed such a notice late Friday in the case of Jamshid Muhtorov, who was charged in Colorado in January 2012 with providing material support to the Islamic Jihad Union, a designated terrorist organization based in Uzbekistan.
Smdh
And SCOTUS will almost certainly uphold this horse , setting a dangerous precedent and opening a can of worms that may never be closed again.
(fingers crossed)
yep, JINO Repug judges, 5-4
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/10/wo...=fb-share&_r=0Not limiting their activities to the earthly realm, American and British spies have infiltrated the fantasy worlds of World of Warcraft and Second Life, conducting surveillance and scooping up data in the online games played by millions of people across the globe, according to newly disclosed classified do ents.
Fearing that terrorist or criminal networks could use the games to communicate secretly, move money or plot attacks, the do ents show, intelligence operatives have entered terrain populated by digital avatars that include elves, gnomes and supermodels.
http://www.theamericanconservative.c...llance-lawyer/John P. Carlin is on track to become the Justice Department’s top national security lawyer, and assume responsibility for approving the thousands of domestic surveillance requests sent to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court every year. If Attorney General Eric Holder had his way, Carlin never would have been nominated.
As Shane Harris reported at Foreign Policy yesterday, Holder “strenuously” objected to Carlin, who was instead the favored choice of White House officials “Kathryn Ruemmler, the White House counsel, and Lisa Monaco, the president’s homeland security and counterterrorism adviser.” Carlin had been Monaco’s chief of staff when she held the position, Assistant Attorney General for the National Security Division, prior to moving to the White House, and he now holds the office in an Acting capacity. Holder reportedly had his own list of candidates, including his own former national security counsel, Amy Jeffress.
Carlin’s anonymous critics quoted in the FP piece level two primary charges against him. First, while he is nominally qualified for the position, “several career prosecutors who know and have worked with Carlin say he does not have a firm enough grasp of national security and surveillance law, which is particularly important when approving applications for surveillance warrants in terrorism and espionage cases.” Second, and seemingly more to the core of the issue, “Former officials said they are concerned that Carlin … doesn’t speak as an independent voice for the department, but rather is aligning his positions first with the White House, and particularly with Monaco, thus undermining Holder’s authority.”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/...fac_story.htmlThe NSA does not target Americans’ location data by design, but the agency acquires a substantial amount of information on the whereabouts of domestic cellphones “incidentally,” a legal term that connotes a foreseeable but not deliberate result.
One senior collection manager, speaking on the condition of anonymity but with permission from the NSA, said “we are getting vast volumes” of location data from around the world by tapping into the cables that connect mobile networks globally and that serve U.S. cellphones as well as foreign ones. Additionally, data are often collected from the tens of millions of Americans who travel abroad with their cellphones every year.
In scale, scope and potential impact on privacy, the efforts to collect and analyze location data may be unsurpassed among the NSA surveillance programs that have been disclosed since June. Analysts can find cellphones anywhere in the world, retrace their movements and expose hidden relationships among the people using them.
Orin Kerr @ Volokh: http://www.volokh.com/2013/12/16/pre...leons-opinion/
http://www.washingtonpost.com/busine...rss_technologyVerizon said Thursday it will publish reports beginning early next year on the number of government requests it receives for customer data, setting a significant precedent for the telecommunications industry, which has kept that information private. Verizon, the nation’s biggest wireless provider, has been under immense pressure from shareholders and privacy groups after revelations that the National Security Agency obtained mountains of private information from the company and other telecom firms, including AT&T. Those disclosures, in do ents leaked by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, have damaged the reputation of U.S. communications companies around the world.
http://investigations.nbcnews.com/_n...el-member?liteA member of the White House review panel on NSA surveillance said he was “absolutely” surprised when he discovered the agency’s lack of evidence that the bulk collection of telephone call records had thwarted any terrorist attacks.
“It was, ‘Huh, o? What are we doing here?’” said Geoffrey Stone, a University of Chicago law professor, in an interview with NBC News. “The results were very thin.”
While Stone said the mass collection of telephone call records was a “logical program” from the NSA’s perspective, one question the White House panel was seeking to answer was whether it had actually stopped “any [terror attacks] that might have been really big.”
“We found none,” said Stone.
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