Warrantless Surveillance

Here's another good reason not to provide AT&T with immunity from lawsuits. We all know that they cooperated with the NSA to collect data on its customers. (See The Weekly Wonk, Warrantless Surveillance, 5/13/06) Now Mark Klein, a former AT&T technician turned whistleblower, says that a copy "of all internet traffic passing over AT&T lines was copied into a... Read More
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Protect America Act of 2007

On August 5, 2007 President Bush signed the Protect America Act of 2007, which provided sweeping new spying powers to the Executive Branch as an up-date to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). Called the Protect America Act of 2007, it allows the government to eavesdrop on international telephone calls and e-mail messages of American... Read More

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