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Friday, February 10th, 2012

Posts Tagged foreign intelligence surveillance act

Sex and the Single Wolf

By | 10.05.09 | 4:12 pm

Are there really any “lone wolves” engaging in dangerous terrorist liaisons? That’s what some opponents of section 6001(b) of the USA PATRIOT Act are asking.

Lots of Democrats now concede that Congress overreacted a bit after the 9/11 terrorist attacks to give sweeping authority to the FBI to conduct various More…

Judge Dismisses Wiretapping Cases Against Telecoms, but Al-Haramain Can Proceed

By | 06.04.09 | 9:04 am

A federal district court judge in California yesterday dismissed a slew of lawsuits filed against telecommunications companies that allegedly helped the U.S. government engage in warrantless wiretapping.

Judge Vaughn Walker in San Francisco dismissed the cases because Congress explicitly gave the telecom companies immunity from civil suits in More…