I put together a preliminary list yesterday of 27 members of Congress who visited the Middle East in 2005 and 2006 — making them, per The New York Times, possible victims of illegal National Security Agency surveillance. Sadly, the release of the Bush administration Office of Legal Counsel More…
Just released from Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), chairwoman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, reacting to the National Security Agency’s surveillance “overcollection”:
“These are serious allegations, and we will make sure we get the facts,” said Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee. “The Committee
The New York Times reported that the National Security Agency improperly wiretapped a member of Congress who was “part of a Congressional delegation to the Middle East in 2005 or 2006.” Greg Sargent wants to know who it was. Don’t we all. To the Googling stations!
Dear Tea Partiers,
I’d like to address you in good faith for a moment. I noticed today you had some strong feelings about what you consider to be President Obama taking away your freedom. You had some problems, I saw, with a recent Department of
Pulled from Ripley’s Believe It Or Not: It turns out that carving out the institutional safeguards built into the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, as the Democratic-led Congress cravenly acquiesced to in 2007 under pressure from the Bush administration, results in massive abuse in domestic surveillance collection. From The New More…
Dennis Blair hasn’t been confirmed by the Senate as the next director of national intelligence, yet. If I’m not mistaken, the Senate intelligence committee hasn’t yet voted his nomination out to the full chamber — but the existing director, retired Adm. Mike McConnell, has… abruptly quit.
My LULZ of the day came from this Karl Rove prognostication, which I saw courtesy of ThinkProgress’ Faiz Shakir:
“One year from now, Gitmo won’t be closed…. If it is, there will be an uproar in the U.S. about where to put these people.”
Uh, maybe, I guess, who More…
National Security Agency whistleblower Russ Tice took to MSNBC’s “Countdown” yesterday to talk about Bush administration surveillance policies that, like many others, he didn’t want to get into while George W. Bush was still president. Among those revelations was that the NSA didn’t just take so-called meta-data (the address on More…
So Dick Cheney takes to Fox News and reiterates the administration’s longstanding claim that the leaders of Congress knew all about the illegal surveillance and torture programs.
So the ACLU doesn’t really like FBI Director Robert S. Mueller’s proposed new guidelines for investigations, fearing that the relaxed rules could open the door to politicized spying and other such perfidies.
As interest groups tend to do, the ACLU emailed its take to editorial boards around the country, More…
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