Sen. Arlen Specter Demands Investigation of Spying... In The NFL
Sometimes, no amount of snark can top the real world. Threat Level notes that "Arlen Specter, the Republican leader of the Senate Judiciary Committee, on Wednesday demanded an independent...
View ArticleObama Administration: New State Secrets Rules = Really, You Can Trust Us
So, we keep seeing more of what the promised "transparency" of the Obama administration means in real terms. Despite campaigning against warrantless wiretapping, the administration has come out with...
View ArticleAppeals Court Notes The Feds Can't Hide Behind 'Lobbyist Privacy' In Not...
For a while now, the EFF has been trying to get the White House to reveal information on who lobbied to get retroactive telco immunity for warrantless wiretapping. The "we're all about transparency...
View ArticleJudge Makes Feds Pay Pocket Change To Two Lawyers It Wiretapped Without A...
Earlier this year, when a judge ruled against the US government for wiretapping some lawyers working with the Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation without getting a warrant, some people pointed out that the...
View ArticleSupreme Court Won't Hear Case On Legality Of Retroactive Immunity For Telcos
Well, this is unfortunate. Late last year, the 9th Circuit appeals court -- as part of a series of cases concerning warrantless spying on Americans -- decided that the FISA Amendments Act (FAA) passed...
View ArticleSen. Arlen Specter Demands Investigation of Spying... In The NFL
Sometimes, no amount of snark can top the real world. Threat Level notes that "Arlen Specter, the Republican leader of the Senate Judiciary Committee, on Wednesday demanded an independent...
View ArticleObama Administration: New State Secrets Rules = Really, You Can Trust Us
So, we keep seeing more of what the promised "transparency" of the Obama administration means in real terms. Despite campaigning against warrantless wiretapping, the administration has come out with...
View ArticleAppeals Court Notes The Feds Can't Hide Behind 'Lobbyist Privacy' In Not...
For a while now, the EFF has been trying to get the White House to reveal information on who lobbied to get retroactive telco immunity for warrantless wiretapping. The "we're all about transparency...
View ArticleJudge Makes Feds Pay Pocket Change To Two Lawyers It Wiretapped Without A...
Earlier this year, when a judge ruled against the US government for wiretapping some lawyers working with the Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation without getting a warrant, some people pointed out that the...
View ArticleSupreme Court Won't Hear Case On Legality Of Retroactive Immunity For Telcos
Well, this is unfortunate. Late last year, the 9th Circuit appeals court -- as part of a series of cases concerning warrantless spying on Americans -- decided that the FISA Amendments Act (FAA) passed...
View ArticleAdding Condoleezza Rice To Dropbox's Board Seems Incredibly Tone Deaf...
Dropbox is probably the most well-known of the cloud storage providers out there, and it's angling for an IPO. As such, it recently made some changes in its management, including a bit of news that is...
View ArticleWith Arrival Of New DA, The DEA's 'Likely Illegal' Wiretap Warrants More...
The DEA's South California wiretap kingdom is crumbling. Run almost solely through a single, very obliging judge and approved by an assortment of DA's office underlings, the wiretap warrants were so...
View ArticleDOJ Steps In To Salvage The DEA's Toxic, Possibly Illegal Wiretaps
Late last year, USA Today's Brad Heath and Brett Kelman uncovered a massive DEA wiretap program -- one that was being run almost exclusively through a single California state court judge and being...
View Article
