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Citing legal concerns, telecommunications companies AT&T;, Verizon, and Qwest have refused to reveal to Congress the nature of their involvement in the NSA warrantless wiretapping program.
If The Resolution is a 'Democratic Ploy', It Sure Was Clever to Have the GOP House Speaker Lead the Way!
If foreign terrorists set out to undermine confidence in the American legal system as an arbiter of justice, they could hardly do more damage than the Bush Administration has done by its use of the "state secrets" privilege.
Attorneys for Khaled El-Masri, who was allegedly subjected to "extraordinary rendition" by the Central Intelligence Agency, asked the US Supreme Court to review the dismissal of his lawsuit against the Agency last year on asserted "state secrets" grounds.
Experts long ago realized that the Bush administration was highly secretive. But, new dangers lurk on the horizon. Together they form a 'security creep' that threatens to fundamentally change the relationship between Americans and their government.
Department of Justice, Which Claimed State Secrets Required Termination of Whistleblower Suit, Now Relies on Same "Secrets" to Avoid Tort Liability.
The Bush administration is signaling that it plans to turn once again to a favorite legal tool known as the "state secrets" privilege to try to shut down a lawsuit brought against a Belgium banking cooperative that secretly supplied millions of private financial records to the U. …
The attorney for the government in the case, Thomas Bondy, argued vehemently that those recollections themselves should be barred, even to establish a threshold issue such as standing, because to do so would be the equivalent of allowing The Document, which is stored in a secure …
The Director of National Intelligence Michael McConnell contradicted the government and his own legal defenses of the nations' telecoms by telling an El Paso newspaper that the companies helped the government with its warrantless wiretapping program.
In an unusual move that may signal a new, more discriminating judicial view of the state secrets privilege, a federal appeals court has reinstated (pdf) a lawsuit which a lower court had dismissed after the government invoked the state secrets privilege.
The audacious circularity of the arguments by the executive branch brought out the sardonic wit of the judges, particularly Harry Pregerson, who repeatedly probed the government's attorneys about what oversight role, if any, would be left for the judicial branch.
A federal judge in California ruled on Tuesday that five states may continue their investigations of allegations that AT&T; participated in a National Security Agency wiretapping program.
A divided federal appeals court today dismissed a case challenging the National Security Agency's program to wiretap without warrants the international communications of some Americans, reversing a trial judge's order that the program be shut down.
Over at the Balkinization blog, Marty Lederman of Georgetown Law School breaks down Professor Kmiec's op-ed, and zeros in on one of the most interesting issues that Kmiec (perhaps inadvertently) highlights: "Why did the president seek the AG's signature, anyway, if it wasn't requ …
The federal lawsuit involving eTreppid, the company Gov Jim Gibbons is accused of helping obtain defense contracts in exchange for gifts and trips, appears to be receiving unusual treatment by justice officials who have proposed a way to keep the case from getting dismissed in sp …
Sibel Edmonds' seems to have stumbled into the really big white collar crime ring that ties an old George Bush I family friend, Brent Scowcroft—and his American Turkish Council--in with former US Ambassador to Turkey Marc Grossman; members of the Turkish Caucus in the US Congre …
It did. Her name was Sibel Edmonds. This is her story, as she told it to me. Edmonds discusses what she knows, whom it implicates, and what she's been through and what hope there is in the new Congress to start an investigation.
It has been almost five years now since former FBI translator Sibel Edmonds first contacted the Senate Judiciary Committee to reveal the shocking tale of Turkish bribery of high-level U.S. officials.
Two of the Bush administration's signature issues may soon face further challenges in the US Supreme Court. In one case, the high court will be asked to review lower court decisions upholding the constitutionality of the Military Commissions Act.
30 liberal, libertarian and conservative groups are calling on Henry Waxman's House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform to hold hearings on the case of gagged FBI Whistleblower Sibel Edmonds. The issues reported by Ms. Edmonds include:
State Secrets Privilege Was Used to Cover Up Corruption and Silence Whistleblowers The National Security Whistleblowers Coalition (NSWBC) has obtained a copy of an official complaint filed by a veteran FBI Special Agent, Gilbert Graham, with the Department of Justice Office of …
FBI whistleblower Sibel Edmonds is continuing her fight to expose what she claims is serious corruption within the Bush administration.
The American Civil Liberties Union Wednesday backed AT&T; shareholders in their bid to force disclosure on NSA secret monitoring.
A federal judge, citing national security, tossed out a lawsuit brought by the wife of a former covert CIA employee who says the government broke its promises.
The Vanity Fair magazine published last year an investigative article alleging that the American Turkish Council (ATC) and the Assembly of Turkish American Associations (ATAA) had conspired, among other things, to make illegal campaign contributions to the Speaker of the House, D …
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