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FoxNews.com 1/23/2014 The White House on Thursday disputed the findings of an independent review board that said the National Security Agency’s mass data collection program is illegal and should be ended, indicating the administration would not be taking that advice. “We simply disagree with the board’s analysis on the legality of the program,” White House […] January 23rd, 2014 | Tags: blame, David Medine, domestic surveillance, Elisebeth Collins Cook, James Dempsey, National Security Agency, Patricia Wald, Rachel Brand, Rep. Mike Rogers, Rush Limbaugh, The Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB) | Category: 1st Amendment, 4th Amendment, Barack Obama, Right to Privacy | Comments are closed
Matthew Boyle Breitbart.com Big Government 3 Jan 2014 Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) is leading a class-action lawsuit with hundreds of thousands of Americans against President Barack Obama’s National Security Agency (NSA) over its spying on the American people, Breitbart News has learned. Sen. Paul will be discussing the lawsuit in an exclusive appearance on Fox […] January 4th, 2014 | Tags: class action suit, domestic surveillance, National Security Agency, Sen. Bernie Sanders, Sen. Rand Paul | Category: 4th Amendment, Barack Obama, Politicians | Comments are closed
Highlights from an eventful year. Ed Krayewski, Jesse Walker, Jim Epstein, J.D. Tuccille, Scott Shackford & Matthew Feeney Reason Magazine 12/31/2013 Nick Gillespie and Matt Welch’s The Declaration of Independents, published in 2011, provides a hopeful outlook for the future of freedom, a vision of how libertarian politics can fix America’s problems. How did 2013 […] December 31st, 2013 | Tags: "sharing economy", 3D printing, domestic surveillance, Edward Snowden, gay marriage, gun control, libertarians, marijuana, National Security Agency, Syria, zero-tolerance | Category: 2nd Amendment, Education, Foreign Policy, Politicians, technology | Comments are closed
T.C. Sottek The Verge 12/29/2013 According to a new report from Der Spiegel based on internal NSA documents, the signals intelligence agency’s elite hacking unit (TAO) is able to conduct sophisticated wiretaps in ways that make Hollywood fantasy look more like reality. The report indicates that the NSA, in collaboration with the CIA and FBI, […] December 29th, 2013 | Tags: ACLU, Der Spiegel, domestic surveillance, Judge Richard Leon, Judge William H. Pauley, laptop, malware, Microsoft, mobile phones, National Security Agency, Smith v Maryland, Tailored Access Operations (TAO), telephone records | Category: 4th Amendment, Central Intelligence Agency, Computers, FBI, Internet, Right to Privacy, technology | Comments are closed
Sonya Sandage BenSwann.com 12/19/2013 The Associated Press reported on Dec. 17th that NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden has released an “open letter to the people of Brazil.” Since spring, Snowden has been releasing thousands of documents on the NSA program through journalists Barton Gellman at the Washington Post, Glenn Greenwald at the Guardian, and U.S. filmmaker […] December 19th, 2013 | Tags: “Report and Recommendations of The President’s Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technology”, Barton Gellman, BRIC group, coup, crony capitalism, domestic surveillance, Edward Snowden, financial manipulation, Glenn Greenwald, global financial markets, Laura Poitras, National Security Agency, power | Category: Brazil, Economy, terrorism | Comments are closed
“While Congress has great latitude to create statutory schemes like Fisa, it may not hang a cloak of secrecy over the constitution.” ~Judge Richard Leon
• Dragnet ‘likely’ in breach of fourth amendment • Judge describes scope of program as ‘Orwellian’ • Ruling relates to collection of Americans’ metadata • […] December 16th, 2013 | Tags: "60 Minutes", Charles Strange, domestic surveillance, Edward Snowden, Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), Gen. Keith Alexander, Judge Richard Leon, Larry Klayman, National Security Agency, Oliver Stone, Smith v Maryland | Category: 4th Amendment, Barack Obama, Congress, Right to Privacy, terrorism | Comments are closed
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