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2009-07-04: Headlines

???: Obama to proceed with Bush-era cyber screening plan: report 2009-07-04

... how much of a role NSA should play and whether the agency's involvement in warrantless wiretapping under the Bush administration would draw controversy.

 

Capitol Hill Blue: Is America still a free country? Good question 2009-07-03

Meanwhile, America's new president -- while he has committed the welcome act of ending torture -- has put himself on the side of warrantless wiretapping ...

 

Huffington Post: Progressives Take Back the Flag 2009-07-03

The administration introduced the Patriot Act to codify this view, giving the government new powers to suppress dissent. (The anti-war movement countered ...

 

Common Dreams (press release): About Face: Obama to Proceed with Bush-Era Cybersecurity Plan 2009-07-03

... of a role NSA should play and whether the agency's involvement in warrantless wiretapping during George W. Bush's presidency would draw controversy.

 

Register: NSA plans massive, 65MW, $2bn data center in Utah 2009-07-03

The plan is controversial because of the NSA's involvement in warrantless wiretapping of US citizens. The program will scrutinize only data traveling to ...

 

CBS13.com: White House Delays Release Of Interrogation Report 2009-07-03

Read more in our Privacy Policy An American flag flies at Camp Justice, the location of the US Military Commissions court for war crimes, at the Naval Base ...

 

msnbc.com: NSA to help defend civilian agency networks 2009-07-03

... of a role NSA should play and whether the agency's involvement in warrantless wiretapping during George W. Bush's presidency would draw controversy.

 

Newcastle News: Newcastle's Mark Greene running for King County Council 2009-07-03

... Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney for warrantless wiretapping of American citizens and bringing the US into an undeclared war under false premises.

 

Creative Loafing Atlanta: Hollywood Product: Public Enemies 2009-07-03

POLITICAL SUBTEXT: This time last year, Bale seemed to endorse warrantless wiretapping to catch criminals in The Dark Knight.

2009-07-03: Headlines

CBS13.com: White House Delays Release Of Interrogation Report 2009-07-03

Read more in our Privacy Policy An American flag flies at Camp Justice, the location of the US Military Commissions court for war crimes, at the Naval Base ...

 

msnbc.com: NSA to help defend civilian agency networks 2009-07-03

... of a role NSA should play and whether the agency's involvement in warrantless wiretapping during George W. Bush's presidency would draw controversy.

 

The Young Turks: The Messiah Complex: Did liberals and progressives fall for it? 2009-07-02

One thing that comes to mind... warrantless wiretapping, I can't believe that's still going... but for some reason and maybe I'm being biased ...

 

The Public Record: ACLU: Obama Admin. Relying On Tortured Confession In Habeas Case 2009-07-02

Darrel Vandeveld, the former lead prosecutor in Jawad's military commission case, left the military commissions because he did not believe he could ...

 

Center for Research on Globalization: Banksters Love Cap-and-Trade: Economic collapse about to accelerate 2009-07-02

It was rushed through the House in the tradition of such nightmarish legislation as the Patriot Act and the banker bailout of last October: hundreds ...

 

Actress Archives: Speidi Weighs In On The Global Obama Conspiracy 2009-07-02

"There's been nothing about the biggest bill since the Patriot Act being passed, and nobody reading it," notes Spencer. "It's mind-boggling trying to say ...

 

MiamiHerald.com: Detainee attorney wants interrogations banned 2009-07-02

Military commissions now being staged at the Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, base currently allow evidence obtained through coercion but not torture, leaving it ...

 

New Times SLO: Bookworms, beware 2009-07-02

The Patriot Act authorizes what amount to federal black-bag jobs in broad daylight and jail time for anyone who blows the whistle.

 

???: [Analysis] US shows intention to cooperate with China and Russi ... 2009-07-02

Experts say, however, that the Obama administration still has a number of choices available to it, including using Section 311 of the USA Patriot Act ...

 

The Washington Independent: Detentions and the War/Use-of-Military-Force Distinction 2009-07-02

... regarding the roughly 230 Guantanamo detainees who face indefinite detention (as opposed to the roughly 15 who might face military commissions in some ...

2009-07-01: Headlines

MiamiHerald.com: Treasury Department imposes sanctions on North Korean firms 2009-07-01

In those cases, the Treasury Department cited provisions of the USA Patriot Act that give the accused virtually no due process rights and are based ...

 

San Antonio Current: From your mouth to their ears 2009-07-01

Of course, our government didn't act alone in its post-9/11 warrantless-wiretapping scheme, as AT&T whistleblower Mark Klein revealed in 2005, smoking-gun ...

 

ThomasNet Industrial News Room (press release): Desktop Software offers watch list compliance solution. 2009-07-01

CHARLOTTE, NC, June 19 / / - ATTUS Technologies, Inc., a pioneer in OFAC and USA PATRIOT Act compliance solutions, introduces, WatchDOG® WinPro.

 

Gather.com: Political Program for a New Third Party of the Political Right 2009-07-01

(9) The Patriot Act should be permanently instituted and strengthened in order to prevent America from encountering anouther major terrorist attack in ...

 

ScienceBlogs: Thoughts From the Interface of Science, Religion, Law and Culture 2009-06-30

Go forward with the military commissions, which allow for some evidence of that kind to be admitted? But they promised to shut down those commissions ...

 

Los Angeles Times: Review: 'New York' 2009-06-30

Detained under the Patriot Act, the driver, Omar (Neil Nitin Mukesh), adamantly denies any wrongdoing. His interrogator (the great Irrfan Kh ...

 

McDowell News: Combs: The Republican leadership is ruining conservative prospects 2009-06-30

And they certainly did not protest when Bush had to have his stupid Patriot Act passed without debate or question. And that is precisely why their argument ...

 

National Journal: Hotline After Dark -- She's Seen Fire And She's Seen Rain 2009-06-30

If it were, for example, Chief Justice Roberts was on the losing side of the Hamdan case, the one that struck down the military commissions.

2009-06-29: Headlines

Daily Kos: Political Prosecutions Hit the National Spotlight 2009-06-29

The committee is also looking at the Bush administration's torture policies and massive warrantless wiretapping of American citizens with no connection ...

 

Wall Street Journal: New Rift Opens Over Rights of Detainees 2009-06-29

WASHINGTON -- The Justice Department has determined that detainees tried by military commissions in the US can claim at least some ...

 

CQPolitics.com: Defense Bills Defy Obama's First Veto Threat 2009-06-29

“President Obama has stated that he believes some detainees should be tried by military commissions,” Levin said. “But in order for that to happen ...

 

St. Augustine Record: TOP REAL ESTATE 2009-06-29

The equipment formed the backbone of the "warrantless wiretapping" program. Thomas Tamm was the Justice Department lawyer who blew the whistle on th ...

 

New York Times: New Guidance Issued on Military Trials of Detainees 2009-06-29

... system for trying terrorist detainees that defendants have some constitutional rights if they are tried by military commissions in the United State ...

 

Boston Globe: The First Amendment, with little give-and-take 2009-06-29

During the war on terror of George W. Bush, Americans were introduced to the USA Patriot Act, which drastically expanded government's power to m ...

 

Slate: Military Coup Shakes Up Honduras 2009-06-29

The WSJ fronts word that the Justice Department has concluded that detainees tried by military commissions in the United States have at least some ...

 

AHN: Senate Pushes For Changes To Terror Detainee Military Commissi ... 2009-06-29

"I believe that military commissions can play a legitimate role in prosecuting violations of the law of war, but only if they meet the standards of fairne ...

 

Daily Kos: Congress should Legislate and our President follow the Law 2009-06-28

... and drafts of legislation like the patriot Act, the Military Commissions Act, the Detainee Treatment Act, ACES and now Healthcares "Public Option".

 

Daily Kos: Feingold on Holder's DOJ, "The jury's out." 2009-06-28

... warrantless wiretapping", and had shared his obvious frustration at AG Holder's backtracking on the illegality of the warrantless wiretapping program ...

 

New America Media: Still Invisible in The Labor Force 2009-06-28

... their use skyrocketed afterward due to legitimate security concerns, as well as laws like the Patriot Act. However, Emsellen said that because ...

 

Los Angeles Times: 'New York' 2009-06-28

Detained under the Patriot Act, the driver, Omar (Neil Nitin Mukesh), adamantly denies any wrongdoing. His interrogator (the great Irrfan Kh ...

2009-06-28: Headlines

TheDay: The Best Alternative To Gitmo: A New Court 2009-06-28

Military commissions have been used throughout US history since the time of Gen. George Washington. They are ordinarily used to try warriors who ...

 

Daily Kos: Feingold on Holder's DOJ, "The jury's out." 2009-06-28

... warrantless wiretapping", and had shared his obvious frustration at AG Holder's backtracking on the illegality of the warrantless wiretapping program ...

 

New America Media: Still Invisible in The Labor Force 2009-06-28

... their use skyrocketed afterward due to legitimate security concerns, as well as laws like the Patriot Act. However, Emsellen said that because ...

 

Daily Kos: Congress should Legislate and our President follow the Law 2009-06-28

... and drafts of legislation like the patriot Act, the Military Commissions Act, the Detainee Treatment Act, ACES and now Healthcares "Public Option".

 

Daily Kos: Feingold on Holder's DOJ, "The jury's out." 2009-06-28

... warrantless wiretapping", and had shared his obvious frustration at AG Holder's backtracking on the illegality of the warrantless wiretapping program ...

 

Los Angeles Times: 'New York' 2009-06-28

Detained under the Patriot Act, the driver, Omar (Neil Nitin Mukesh), adamantly denies any wrongdoing. His interrogator (the great Irrfan Kh ...

 

Khaleej Times: Obama's Immigration Deal 2009-06-27

Washington should scrap the extra baggage of protectionism and curses of legislation such as the Patriot Act, which has pushed the great country to ...

 

Marietta Times: Patriot Act must be repealed to protect rights 2009-06-27

Repealing the Patriot Act, which creates a secret, Gestapo police force, is a critical first step. It is the lack of transparency that the so-called Patriot ...

2009-06-27: Headlines

AlterNet: 'A Comedy of Errors': Why It's Time to Get Rid of the So-Called ... 2009-06-27

The Patriot Act would be only history. Homeland Security could be dissassembled. A dream? No, reality, if the American people demand to know the truth ...

 

Marietta Times: Patriot Act must be repealed to protect rights 2009-06-27

Repealing the Patriot Act, which creates a secret, Gestapo police force, is a critical first step. It is the lack of transparency that the so-called Patriot ...

 

On Top Magazine: The Gay Slant: The Accidental Gay Activist 2009-06-26

There is no bluer Democrat than Nadler – he opposed the war in Iraq and the PATRIOT act – but even some Democrats flee from their most loyal constituency ...

 

ProPublica: Review of Gitmo Detainees Has Been Slow and Complex 2009-06-26

A second team determines which of the remaining detainees could be prosecuted in federal court or by military commissions. Recommendations are sent to ...

 

Global Security Newswire: G-8 Slams North Korean Nuclear Test 2009-06-26

on Wednesday suggested that Obama invoke a provision of the Patriot Act that would name North Korea's money-laundering activities a "primary concern" to ...

2009-06-25: Headlines

Washington Post: US Policies Criticized by UN Rights Watchdog 2009-06-25

Pillay did not address the Obama administration's decision to use reformed military commissions to try terrorism suspects. Human rights groups have criticized the commissions, expressing particular concern that suspects could be convicted and put ...

 

Scoop.co.nz: Challenger to Hawkish Democrat Gets an Early Start 2009-06-25

By Scott Harris Jane Harman, a seven-term Democratic congresswoman from California's 36th District, has long been the focus of progressive activists unhappy with her support for President Bush's Iraq war and warrantless wiretapping program.

 

Truthdig: Free Speech vs. Surveillance in the Digital Age 2009-06-24

The equipment formed the backbone of the “warrantless wiretapping” program. Thomas Tamm was the Justice Department lawyer who blew the whistle on that program. In 2004, he called The New York Times from a subway pay phone and told reporter Eric ...

 

Common Dreams (press release): Thousands Demand Accountability for Torture 2009-06-24

Formed in 2001 after the passage of the USA PATRIOT Act, the Bill of Rights Defense Committee is a national organization defending constitutional rights and civil liberties violated by "war on terror" policies. BORDC's mission is to promote, organize ...

 

Daily Kos: Abandon Us Again, Dianne? 2009-06-24

She voted for the wars, she voted for the tax cuts, she voted for the Patriot Act, the list goes on and on, looking at the record without a name attached she would have to be a solid Republican. Yet she comes from the vividly cerulean blue Californi ...

 

Urbanatomy & That's Shanghai: At the Glamour Bar: Lynne Joiner 2009-06-24

Not just in terms of the new Patriot Act and invasion of privacy rights for American citizens versus the McCarthy era, but also for our international policy and needs regarding emerging nations and 'failed nations.' Our country needs people on ...