Spying on Americans: Obama Endorses Bush Era Warrantless Wiretapping
Antifascist Calling… – 2009-11-05
by Tom Burghardt
President Barack Obama instructed Justice Department attorneys to argue last week in San Francisco before Federal District Judge Vaughn Walker, that he must toss out the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Shubert v. Bush lawsuit challenging the secret state’s driftnet surveillance of Americans’ [...]
Source: Opposing Views – Nat Hentoff
While battling the FBI’s expanded surveillance guidelines, Sen. Russ Feingold, D-Wis., also revealed (Daily Kos, Oct. that in the Senate Judiciary Committee review of the Patriot Act (also Oct. 8), Republicans protecting the Act were joined, in a closed-door classified session, by Obama officials with amendments further preserving it. [...]
Sens. Jon Kyl (R-Arizona) and Patrick Leahy, (D-Vermont) ride the Up escalator moments after approving constitutionally suspect Patriot Act provisions./AP photo
By David Kravets~WIRED
A deeply divided Senate committee on Thursday forwarded legislation to the full Senate that reauthorizes three expiring provisions of the Patriot Act hastily adopted in the wake of the 2001 terror [...]
George W. Obama Supports Extending PATRIOT Act Provisions
Posted by David Kramer on September 16, 2009 09:16 AM
The Obama administration supports extending three key provisions of the Patriot Act that are due to expire at the end of the year, the Justice Department told Congress in a letter made public Tuesday.
Lawmakers and civil rights groups had [...]
Patriot Act Being Used Against a 16 Year Old Citizens !
Patriot Act being used against its own citizens !
The family has been told they have no rights to see their child and, under the USA PATRIOT ACT, the child has no rights to even defend himself. They claim the Constitution does not apply to this [...]
New Legislation Will Rein in Overbroad National Security Letter Power
WASHINGTON – March 30 – Congressmen Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) and Jeff Flake (R-AZ) introduced legislation today to narrow the overbroad subpoena power in the National Security Letter (NSL) provision of the Patriot Act. The bipartisan bill, National Security Letters Reform Act of 2009, aims to curb [...]
Portions of Law to Expire This Year
By Carrie Johnson
Washington Post Staff Writer
FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III urged lawmakers yesterday to renew intelligence-gathering measures in the USA Patriot Act that are set to expire in December, calling them “exceptional” tools to help protect national security.
The law, passed shortly after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist [...]
Posted on March 3, 2009 by Barbara Peterson
Read the following article written by Robert A Waters in 2003, and keep one thing in mind: this is a true story. If you don’t think this can happen here, think again. HR 45, the new gun control bill text can be found here:
HR 45 Gun Control Bill
The [...]
For the first time, some airline passengers will skip metal detectors and instead be screened by body scanning machines that look through clothing for hidden weapons, the Transportation Security Administration said Tuesday.
An experimental program that begins today at Tulsa International Airport will test whether the $170,000 body scanners could replace $10,000 metal detectors that have [...]
Government To Maintain List Of People Who Aren’t Terrorists
By: Freedom Fighter
Source: Wired
The House overwhelmingly adopted legislation this week mandating the creation of a new kind of terrorist watchlist: a database of people who aren’t terrorists, but are routinely flagged at airports anyway.
The U.S. government maintains a list of about a million names [...]
February 10, 2009 By: Freedom Fighter
Congratulations! With your help Virginians had a Real ID Act victory last week, as both anti Real ID bills – H.B.1587 & S.B.1431 – were reported, unchanged, out of the House & Senate Transportation Committees. This means these committees heard you! But the battle is not over. We must [...]
The Posse Comitatus Act and Homeland Security
John R. Brinkerhoff
February 2002
As acting associate director for national preparedness of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) from 1981 to 1983, Colonel John R. Brinkerhoff, US Army Retired, was responsible for policy formulation and program oversight of the Civil Defense Program, National Mobilization Preparedness Program, Continuity of Government, and [...]
By foundingfather1776
Dear Readers,
As I feared, “Lord Obama” is amassing his forces for an all-out assault on our natural rights for self-defense and liberty.
Now is *not* the time to be passive or wait for the “change” that is about to start!
I urge you to get ACTIVE! Join a Pro 2nd Amendment group. My favorite is “Gun [...]
The oversize white envelope bore the blue logo of the Department of Homeland Security. Inside, I found 20 photocopies of the government’s records on my international travels. Every overseas trip I’ve taken since 2001 was noted.
I had requested the files after I had heard that the government tracks “passenger activity.” Starting in the mid-1990s, many [...]
By Greg Evensen
December 20, 2008
NewsWithViews.com
Intelligence comes in two distinct and uniquely critical components. The first is [...]
ACLU victorious as federal court declares Patriot Act provision a violation of the First Amendment
A federal appeals court ruling late Monday is the cause célèbre of the American Civil Liberties Union, as another provision of the Bush administration’s Patriot Act falls to the judicial system.
Until the ruling, recipients of so-called “national security letters” were legally [...]
‘Ridiculous’ to think program doesn’t violate Posse Comitatus, ACLU lobbyist tells War On You
The Department of Homeland Security has been given the money it needs to begin turning international spy satellites within the country’s borders, despite lingering fears about the program’s lack of focus and the potential for it to infringe upon Americans’ civil liberties.
After [...]
“Since 9/11, our Constitutional rights have been systematically dismantled:
USA Patriot Act – A 342 page document presented to Congress one day before voting on it that allows the government access to your bank and email accounts, as well as your medical and phone records with no court order. They can also search your home anytime [...]
When travelers go to the airport, they know what kind of security to expect: luggage searches, metal detectors and shoe inspections.
It’s all part of our post 9-11 reality enforced by the Transportation Security Adminstration. But as CBS 2 Investigator Pam Zekman reports, thousands of travelers have complained that some of these screenings can become abusive [...]
Last night on MSNBC’s Coundown, George Washington law professor Jonathan Turley noted that just this week, a federal judge rejected President Bush’s claim that his “constitutional authority as commander in chief trumped” the FISA wiretapping law. Judge Vaughn Walker explicitly stated that the President is bound by FISA
Congress appears clearly to have intended to — [...]
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