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(Prison Planet) posted 12/24/2005 ... officials, police and citizens by filing false legal documents.” So I guess the Patriot Act comes in handy in Wisconsin with all those anti-government types. ... EFF Receives First Set of FOIA Documents on the FBI's Misuse of National Security Letter Authority (Electronic Frontier Foundation) posted 07/11/2007 ... unfortunately, not surprising to critics of the Bureau's NSL power. Before the USA PATRIOT Act was passed in 2001, the FBI could unilaterally issue these demands only to ... Judge Orders FBI to Turn Over Thousands of Patriot Act Abuse Documents (Wired Blogs) posted 06/17/2007 Just one day after a news that an internal audit found that FBI agents abused a Patriot Act power more than 1000 times, a federal judge ordered the agency Friday to begin turn ... Amendment to Patriot Act criminalizes political protest at "special events of national significance." (Fox News) posted 01/31/2006 WASHINGTON — A new provision tucked into the Patriot Act bill now before Congress would allow authorities to haul demonstrators at any 'special event of national signifi ... Don't let Big Brother live in Dearborn: Proposed surveillance cameras shrink privacy for little gain (Concord Monitor) posted 04/30/2006 ... federal government launched a major and successful assault against privacy. Under the Patriot Act, U.S. agents acquired enormous powers to poke and pry into private lives ... Did President Bush Really Say That? (Chuck Baldwin) posted 12/14/2005 ... leaders, President G.W. Bush was urged to take caution in implementing his new Patriot Act because it would potentially 'alienate conservatives.' According to Thompson, t ... The Tea Party and civil liberties (Glenn Greenwald) posted 02/10/2011 ... failure of the House to extend some of the most controversial powers of the Patriot Act -- an extension jointly championed by the House GOP leadership and the O ... Webmaster cleared of promoting terrorism (The Register) posted 03/14/2006 ... visa fraud offences. The closely-watched case was seen as a test of the newly-enacted Patriot Act. But during the seven-week case the prosecution failed to convince ... Even If Congress Lets Section 215 Expire, The NSA May Be Able To Keep On Collecting Phone Metadata (Techdirt) posted 03/24/2015 ... bills die on the Congressional floor are now watching the clock. This part of the PATRIOT Act is set to expire June 1st (as is the latest bulk metadata order) and if Cong ... Internet Censorship: The Warning Signs Were Not Hidden (Wayne Madsen) posted 12/09/2005 ... right here in America. The agreement by the Congress to extend an enhanced Patriot Act for another four years will permit the political enforcers of the Bush adminis ... Obama Goes Full Stalin: Tells Secret Court To Ignore Law He Signed 4 Hours Earlier, Extend Illegal NSA Surveillance (ZeroHedge) posted 06/10/2015 ... on 7 May, the appeals court ruled that the government had erroneously interpreted the Patriot Act's authorization of data collection as 'relevant' to an ongoing investiga ... My National Security Letter Gag Order (Washington Post) posted 03/26/2007 ... FBI has been systematically abusing one of the most controversial provisions of the USA Patriot Act: the expanded power to issue 'national security letters.' It no doubt ... Bush Administration Pushing Domestic Surveillance Envelope (Chuck Baldwin) posted 10/29/2005 ... House and Senate battle over whether to put new restrictions on the controversial USA Patriot Act, which made it easer for the government to conduct secret searches and s ... On Civil Liberties Myopia: Bush Didn’t Start the War on the Bill of Rights (Joshua Frank and Merlin Chowkwanyun) posted 12/20/2005 ... MoveOn.org benefit, railed: 'I mean, I'm afraid of terrorism, but I'm more afraid of the Patriot Act,' even though her candidate of choice not only voted for the legislat ... Concern at effects on civil liberties (The Australian) posted 09/09/2005 ... British counter-terrorism regime but stopped well short of matching the powers of the US Patriot Act. He said the US laws allowed police and intelligence agencies t ... John McCain: Bush Right to Use NSA (Newsmax) posted 12/19/2005 ... seek approval from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, he suggested that the Patriot Act might have superseded the 1978 FISA Act, allowing 'additional powers for ... Do not be deceived: S. 1867 is the most dangerous bill since the PATRIOT Act (EndtheLie) posted 12/01/2011 ... I reported on the highly controversial bill S. 1253, the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for the fiscal year of 2012 which was introduced back in June. Thi ... Sen. DeWine uses 9/11 images to attack Brown on terrorism (The Columbus Dispatch) posted 07/15/2006 ... asserts that he voted to 'slash' spending for national intelligence, opposed the Patriot Act in 2001 and 2005, and voted against applying the death penalty to terrorists ... Want to check your e-mail in Italy? Bring your passport. (CSMonitor) posted 10/05/2005 ... without notifying the person in question. 'It is a control system like America's Patriot Act,' he says. Groups like the American Civil Liberties Union have crit ... Gore Vidal Assured Military Would Prevent Staged Terror (Prison Planet) posted 10/25/2006 ... Military Commissions Act, the most egregious assault on the Constitution since the USA Patriot Act of 2001. 'Wow - I didn't think I'd live as long to see that on ... |
