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- NEW YORK, Aug. 3 Kyodo Selected editorial excerpts from the U.S. press: 'GET SMART' IN WASHINGTON (The Wall Street Journal, New York) Imagine this scenario: U.S. intelligence against al Qaeda has declined by two-thirds because of court restrictions, and President Hillary Rodham Clinton is asking...
- Research articles 2007-08-06
- Court fight over warrantless wiretaps in doubt
- WASHINGTON AFP — Civil rights attorneys asked an appeals court to ignore the US government and to hear their legal challenge to warrantless wiretaps of US citizens. US federal government attorneys argued the terrorist surveillance program has been placed in the hands of a secret court in early January,...
- Research articles 2007-01-26
- Congressional wrap-up.(Legal Report)
- By the time this issue is printed, the 109th Congress will have ended. The following overview highlights the major legislation that passed and looks at security bills that did not make the cut. It should be noted, however, that at press time the House and Senate were...
- Research articles 2006-12-01
- Family Feuds
- THE STORY SO FAR As the feds wiretap Temple grad student Akhil Bansal's e-mail, Akhil wiretaps his employees and feuds with his father. Today's installment begins as a Philly DEA agent dashes to India, hoping to listen to secret phone wiretaps of calls between Akhil and his father. It is...
- Research articles 2006-11-24
- ACLU says wiretaps threaten democracy
- CINCINNATI AP -- Warrantless wiretaps that the government says are necessary to fight terrorism pose a threat to American democracy, the American Civil Liberties Union said in court papers filed Tuesday. The ACLU is asking the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to reinstate a lower court decision...
- Research articles 2006-11-15
- House OKs measure allowing wiretaps
- WASHINGTON -- The House voted Thursday to give the president the formal power to order wiretaps on Americans without a court order for 90 days, even as a federal judge in Detroit once again declared the administration's program of wiretapping without warrants to be illegal. The House approved...
- Research articles 2006-09-29
- US judge to rule on legality of warrantless wiretaps
- CHICAGO AFP — A federal judge heard arguments in a suit arguing that US President George W. Bush overstepped his authority when he authorized the use of warrantless wiretaps on Americans. The arguments came less than two weeks after the Supreme Court ruled that the Bush administration overstepped its...
- Research articles 2006-07-10
- US govt seen in breach of law for concealing intelligence
- WASHINGTON AFP — The Bush administration concealed at least one "major" intelligence operation from Congress in possible violation of the law and briefed lawmakers only after they had learned about it from independent sources, a ranking congressman said. The charge by Republican Representative Peter Hoekstra, chairman of the House...
- Research articles 2006-07-09
- Pick is sure to reopen debate on surveillance
- Air Force Gen. Michael V. Hayden's nomination to lead the CIA is just the spark Democrats and some Republicans desire to reignite the debate over the warrantless domestic surveillance program. One leading Republican, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, is contemplating additional hearings on the program and...
- Research articles 2006-05-09
- Administration to prosecute whistle-blowers
- From the "intelligence failures" of 9/11 and the Iraq war, to the criminal exposure of CIA operative Valerie Plame, to the use of illegal warrantless wiretaps, the Bush administration has zealously obstructed efforts to conduct full and honest investigations. Now the administration is displaying great zeal to investigate and prosecute...
- Research articles 2006-03-06
- Telecom execs asked about roles in warrentless wiretaps.(News)
- Byline: JEFFREY SILVA Two powerful Senate Democrats asked executives of three telecom giants with major mobile-phone units to turn over information on their alleged participation in the Bush administration's warrantless domestic surveillance program. Sens. Edward...
- Research articles 2006-02-13
- CIA chief vows to fight leaks of secret info
- WASHINGTON AFP — CIA director Porter Goss reiterated his determination to fight leaks of classified information, warning that "terrorists gain an edge when they keep their secrets and we don't keep ours." The pledge came as the Justice Department was trying to find out who in the US government...
- Research articles 2006-02-10
- Gonzales, senators at odds on spying
- Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee, joined by a handful of Republicans, raised concerns yesterday that the Bush administration went too far legally when it wiretapped without obtaining prior authorization. Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales, testifying before the committee, said secret, warrantless eavesdropping was "vital to the national defense."...
- Research articles 2006-02-07
- Deja vu: Ford team involved in wiretap flap
- WASHINGTON -- An intense debate erupted during the Ford administration over the president's powers to eavesdrop without warrants to gather foreign intelligence, according to government documents. George H.W. Bush, Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney are cited in the documents. The roughly 200 pages of historic records obtained by...
- Research articles 2006-02-05
- White House spying defense rests on shaky legal ground
- In the seven weeks since The New York Times revealed that President Bush has been ordering wiretaps on communications into and out of the USA without asking for the warrants required by law, the explosive debate has been long on political spin and short on hard fact. The White...
- Research articles 2006-02-06
- Warrantless wiretapping: shredding the constitution
- President Bush defended his use of warrantless wiretaps in the global "war on terror" at a December 19 White House press conference. "As President and Commander-in-Chief, I have the constitutional responsibility and the constitutional authority to protect our country," he said. "Article II of the Constitution gives me that responsibility...
- Research articles 2006-01-09
- Bush defends wiretaps
- WASHINGTON -- President Bush continued on Sunday to defend both the legality and the necessity of the National Security Agency's domestic eavesdropping program, and he denied that he misled the public last year when he insisted that any government wiretap required a court order. "I think most Americans...
- Research articles 2006-01-02
- Alito's wiretap views emerge
- WASHINGTON -- Supreme Court nominee Judge Samuel Alito argued in the mid-1980s that government officials who order illegal domestic wiretaps are immune from lawsuits, according to newly released documents from Alito's service in the Justice Department. Nevertheless, Alito urged fellow Justice Department lawyers to avoid testing his expansive...
- Research articles 2005-12-24
- Calls for probe of wiretaps mount in bipartisan chorus
- A California senator led colleagues from both parties Tuesday in calling for an inquiry into President Bush's authorization of domestic electronic surveillance of U.S. citizens. U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., wrote Tuesday to Sens. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., and Patrick Leahy, D-Vt. -- the Judiciary Committee's chairman and...
- Research articles 2005-12-21
- Calls mount for probe into wiretaps Feinstein asks for
- A California senator led colleagues from both parties Tuesday in calling for an inquiry into President Bush's authorization of domestic electronic surveillance of U.S. citizens. U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., wrote Tuesday to Sens. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., and Patrick Leahy, D-Vt. -- the Judiciary Committee's chairman and...
- Research articles 2005-12-21
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