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How can any politician, Democrat or Republican, tell Studs Terkel telecoms deserve immunity when he says, "By revealing the truth in a public forum, the American people will have the facts to play their historic, heroic role in putting our nation back on the path toward freedom.
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Sen. Chris Dodd gave a great statement on the floor of the Senate this morning. You can watch video here on his Senate website.
Source: tpmelectioncentral.com
It's official: Obama will back a filibuster of any Senate FISA legislation containing telecom immunity, his campaign has just told Election Central.
Source: tpmelectioncentral.com
"Senator Obama has serious concerns about many provisions in this bill, especially the provision on giving retroactive immunity to the telephone companies. He is hopeful that this bill can be improved by the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Source: The Huffington Post
Will House Speaker Nancy Pelosi come clean now that it is clear that the National Security Agency (NSA) was turned loose on American citizens well before 9/11? She has admitted knowing for several years about the Bush administration's eavesdropping on Americans without a court wa …
Source: www.counterpunch.com
The Michael Mukasey Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing has demonstrated that Mukasey cannot be relied upon to function independently as U.S. Attorney General.
Source: Wired News
Over the next few weeks and months, civil libertarians and consumer advocates will wage a battle against the telecommunications companies and the Bush administration to preserve some semblance of privacy rights in Americans' communications.
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A few decades ago, the FBI regularly conducted "black-bag jobs" that involved sneaking into homes, hotel rooms and offices with the cooperation of the building's owner or even a neighbor with a spare key. Locks were picked otherwise.
Think Telco execs don't think they did anything wrong complying with the government's warrantless wiretap requests, well take a look at to whom they're donating their money.
Source: The New York Times
Every now and then, we are tempted to double-check that the Democrats actually won control of Congress last year. It was particularly hard to tell this week.
Source: The Washington Post
Last week, faced with admissions by several telecommunication companies that they assisted the Bush administration in warrantless spying on Americans, leaders of the Senate intelligence committee took a much different tack -- proposing legislation that would grant those companies …
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Sen. Chris Dodd made this video the other day to discuss his opposition to the FISA bill, and yesterday said he would also filibuster it if Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid decides to break tradition and refuse to uphold the "hold" on the bill that Dodd proposed.
Source: The New York Times
But passage in the committee came with one unexpected hitch. In an interview after the closed session, Mr.
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Are you willing to go to the mat to restore the Constitution? Just last night, we heard there are plans to disregard Senator Dodd's intention to place a hold on a FISA bill that includes amnesty for telecommunications companies.
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Chris Dodd won't roll over for Harry Reid. Dodd announced yesterday that he would place a hold on any Senate bill that proposed retroactive immunity for the telecom companies involved in President Bush's no-warrant wiretapping controversy.
Source: Salon.com
I wrote about many of yesterday's developments concerning telecom amnesty and warrantless surveillance in this morning's post, but I want separately to highlight one critical fact.
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FindLaw columnist and former counsel to the president John Dean argues against Congress's expanding domestic surveillance powers under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA).
Source: Daily Kos
The Military Commissions Act. Warrantless wiretapping. Shredding of Habeas Corpus. Torture. Extraordinary Rendition. Secret Prisons. No more.
Source: Wired News
The Military Commissions Act. Warrantless wiretapping. Shredding of Habeas Corpus. Torture. Extraordinary Rendition. Secret Prisons. No more.
Source: eweek.com
Verizon—without a warrant or subpoena—turned over customer records of telephone calls and Internet activities to federal officials more than 700 times since 2005, according to the nation's second largest telecom carrier.
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ooks like the GOP parlimentary maneuver worked: According to House Dem leadership aides, the leadership has postponed the vote on the FISA bill until next week.
Source: The Washington Post
Senate Democrats and Republicans reached agreement with the Bush administration yesterday on the terms of new legislation to control the federal government's domestic surveillance program, which includes a highly controversial grant of legal immunity to telecommunications compani …
Source: Salon.com
Let's just describe very factually and dispassionately what has happened here.
Source: The Hill
President Bush on Wednesday criticized a Congress that has not "managed to pass many important bills" and is "just getting started" on funding bills.
Source: Raw Story
Although the scope of surveillance conducted under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act remains shrouded in secrecy, newly disclosed documents show the costs one company charges the government to eavesdrop on customers.