Glenn Greenwald is out with another piece about the NSA: The Obama administration for more than two years permitted the National Security Agency to continue collecting vast amounts of records detailing the email and internet usage of Americans, according to secret documents obtained by the Guardian. The documents indicate that under the program, launched in […]
It looks like Pat Roberts has made somewhat a change in how he feels the wiretapping program should operate: The chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee said Friday that he wanted the Bush administration’s domestic eavesdropping program brought under the authority of a special intelligence court, a move President Bush has argued is not necessary. […]
Specter just asked Gonzalez if when they do go to the FISA court for a warrant if they disclose that their information for the warrant was obtained by warrantless taps. Gonzalez would not answer because he didn’t feel comfortable going in to it. This was a very important question. If FISA is denying warrants because […]
So what can we expect tomorrow when the hearings into the wiretapping kick off. WellTime magazine has a little preview. According to the documents, Gonzales plans to assert in his opening statement that seeking approval for the wiretaps from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) court could result in delays that “may make the difference […]
Jonathon Turley, professor of Law for George Washington University, gave a very stern opening statement. He said the President has committed a crime by ignoring FISA. While we can argue his motivation the issue of the law is certain. He went into details of when he worked for the NSA as a law clerk and […]
We might have a witness to the wiretapping case. A former National Security Agency official wants to tell Congress about electronic intelligence programs that he asserts were carried out illegally by the NSA and the Defense Intelligence Agency. Russ Tice, a whistleblower who was dismissed from the NSA last year, stated in letters to the […]
This story keeps going and going. federal judge has resigned from the court that oversees government surveillance in intelligence cases in protest of President Bush’s secret authorization of a domestic spying program, according to two sources. U.S. District Judge James Robertson, one of 11 members of the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, sent a letter […]