Tag: FISA
Senate Passes FISA & Immunity: On to President's Desk
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Posted to Politics on Thu Jul 10, 2008 at 07:11:46 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
In a 69-28 vote, members of the United States Senate voted to amend FISA and grant retroactive immunity to telecommunications companies involved in the warrantless wiretapping scheme.
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Can you hear me now? Retroactive immunity passes House.
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Posted to Legal on Sat Jun 21, 2008 at 08:39:12 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
A new bill overhauling and expanding the surveillance powers of the United States government passed the House of Representatives Friday and is likely to pass the Senate within a few days. A controversial provision in the legislation included retroactive immunity for telecommunications companies that allegedly cooperated with an illegal and secret warrantless wiretapping program.
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Senate Democrats Take A Heroic Stand!
pO157.
Posted to Politics on Thu Feb 14, 2008 at 12:19:48 PM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
....against FISA and Retroactive Immunity for Illegal Wiretaps. Or not.
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Intelligence Director: All your Privacy are Belong to Us
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Posted to Legal on Tue Nov 13, 2007 at 10:15:41 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
As the Senate Judiciary Committee begins debate on potential changes to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act the Deputy Director of National Intelligence, Donald Kerr, argued for a change in the basic definition of privacy.
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Bush Flip-Flops on Warrantless Wiretaps
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Posted to Legal on Fri Jan 19, 2007 at 10:50:07 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
As the Bush Administration has been losing in the courts pretty consistently, their current tactic is to try to remove jurisdiction from the court whenever they look like they're about to lose. The most recent attempt at this was the announcement that the controversial NSA wiretapping program, which the administration argued did not require court supervision, should be under under FISA's jurisdiction after all.
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