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Congress, rights groups still know virtually nothing about U.S. wiretap court
At a House hearing on Thursday, members of Congress and representatives of two leading privacy rights groups concluded that they still know virtually nothing about a secret court set up by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), originally intended to prevent the worst abuses of the Nixon administration from ever…
ACLU deputy legal director: NDAA ‘still awful’ despite changes
Jameel Jaffer, deputy legal director at ACLU, said Wednesday night that the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) of 2012 was still highly problematic despite changes to the bill. “It was an awful bill before and it is an awful bill now,” he told MSNBC host Rachel Maddow. Provisions within the…
Exclusive: Obama has taken a ‘profoundly troubling’ position on assassinations, ACLU tells Raw
Disclosure of government secrets often has little to do with the public’s right to know and has everything to do an official’s need to tell, according to ACLU deputy director Jameel Jaffer. And that’s especially true when it comes to assassinations, which have not traditionally been an openly admitted component…
Appeals court reinstates suit against US gov’t. warrantless wiretapping program
The Bush Administration’s contention that Americans couldn’t challenge its warrantless wiretapping law because no one could prove they were spied upon was thrown out by an appeals court Monday afternoon, allowing a challenge of the program’s constitutionality to proceed. In a unanimous decision, judges on the Second Circuit Court of…
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