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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
“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
Ben Shapiro Breitbart.com big Government 20 Nov 2013 On Wednesday, Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) released a video to Breitbart News exclusively in which he argued that the surveillance state under President Obama had grown beyond any reasonable proportions. “We were once outraged and dismayed and spurred to resist when British soldiers came knocking at our […] November 20th, 2013 | Tags: domestic surveillance, freedom, National Security Agency, resistance, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, Sen. Rand Paul | Category: 4th Amendment, American Revolutionary War, Founding Fathers, Government, terrorism, Texas | Comments are closed
Richard Pollock The Washington Examiner 9/13/2013 Consumer Financial Protection Bureau officials are seeking to monitor four out of every five U.S. consumer credit card transactions this year — up to 42 billion transactions – through a controversial data-mining program, according to documents obtained by the Washington Examiner. A CFPB strategic planning document for fiscal years […] September 13th, 2013 | Tags: Anti-trust, bankruptcy, checks and balances, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), credit cards, data-mining, Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, mortgages, Rep. Maxine Waters, Richard Cordray | Category: 4th Amendment, Banking and finance, Congress, Department of Justice, Right to Privacy | Comments are closed
Timothy B. Lee The Washington Post 8/19/2013 If the police arrest you, do they need a warrant to rifle through your cellphone? Courts have been split on the question. Last week the Obama administration asked the Supreme Court to resolve the issue and rule that the Fourth Amendment allows warrantless cellphone searches. In 2007, the […] August 19th, 2013 | Tags: cell phones, warrant | Category: 4th Amendment, Barack Obama, Department of Justice, Massachusetts, Right to Privacy, SCOTUS | Comments are closed
Brian Freedom’s Lighthouse 8/18/2013 – –
Related: Rand: Dir. of Nat’l Intelligence ‘Greatly Damaged’ Credibility of Intel Community …Clapper had told the Senate Intelligence Committee that the NSA did not collect data on Americans, and after Edward Snowden leaked information about the NSA programs, he told NBC News that he gave the “least untruthful […] August 18th, 2013 | Tags: Boston Marathon, Edward Snowden, Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISA), Franklin D. Roosevelt, James R. Clapper, National Security Agency, scandal, Second Bill of Rights, Sen. Rand Paul, Separation of Powers, TamerlanTsarnaev | Category: 4th Amendment, Barack Obama, Congress, Health Care, History, law enforcement, National Intelligence, National Security, SCOTUS, US Constitution, Video | Comments are closed
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