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Massachusetts to imitate Congressional FISA cave-in?

July 17, 2008 By ACLUm blog 25 Comments

Just a week after Congress caved in and voted to expand the federal government's ability to monitor ordinary Americans' emails and phone calls, the Massachusetts legislature has voted to do something very similar. Carol Rose, Executive … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: fisa, fourth-amendment, privacy, telecom-immunity

What Can We Learn from FISA?

July 10, 2008 By massmarrier 11 Comments

Yet, the big lesson is the complex one. The nominal Democratic majority in Congress is virtually indistinguishable from the anti-liberty party, a.k.a. the Republican one. On key political and philosophical issues, Democrats are increasingly … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: bush, congress, courage, fisa, national, obama

Congress caved. We’re suing.

July 10, 2008 By ACLUm blog 32 Comments

For the record, here's the text of the Fourth Amendment: The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: fisa, fourth-amendment, national, telecom-immunity

Obama disappoints big-time on FISA

June 20, 2008 By David 64 Comments

Ugh. "Under this compromise legislation, an important tool in the fight against terrorism will continue, but the President's illegal program of warrantless surveillance will be over. It restores FISA and existing criminal wiretap statutes … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: 2008, fisa, obama

ACTION ALERT: Fight FISA “compromise”

June 19, 2008 By chriswagner 3 Comments

Under this bill, we would have two justice systems in this country. Under one justice system, the super-rich and large corporations can break the law with impunity, then ask their Congressional pals to pretty please give them a get out of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: 2008, civil-liberties, fisa, teleco-amnesty, the-constitution

FISA fight confusing you? Maybe this can help..

February 23, 2008 By sayhar 2 Comments

In other words. Bush bragged about illegally spying on Americans a few years ago. Everyone was outraged. Then enough Democrats in Congress (and almost all Republicans), instead of punishing him for breaking the 4th Amendment, decided to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: context, crosspost, fisa, long, national, protect-america-act

House adjourns without FISA cave-in!

February 14, 2008 By ACLUm blog 8 Comments

Good news, at least for now!  The House adjourned without surrendering to White House pressure (for a change) to extend the so-called "Protect America Act." Kennedy and Kerry opposed amnesty to the telecoms that went along with the … [Read more...]

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Kerry, Kennedy opposed FISA cave-in

February 13, 2008 By ACLUm blog 6 Comments

Yesterday the US Senate voted for another cave-in, providing legal immunity for the telecoms that went along with the White House's illegal warrantless wiretaps. At least Kerry and Kennedy voted against it.  McCain supported it. … [Read more...]

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Where is your name, Senator Kerry!

January 29, 2008 By miller415 7 Comments

A few days ago I wrote a diary on Senator Kerry's long list of accepting PAC money from corporations .  Today Mcjoan has a diary on the FISA bill. She list 12 Senators who have vowed to support Senator Chris Dodd's filibuster. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: fisa, pac-money, senator-kerry, senator-rockerfeller

Did I Steal Myself?

December 12, 2007 By lasthorseman 4 Comments

Well now that technology "allows" me to whip out a cell phone to pay my cell phone bill while waiting in the dentist's office this "convienience comes at a price.  It is apparently so convienient most of the internet connected world … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: darpa, data-mining, fisa, life-log, privacy

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Our entire public debate is decades behind the realities we know we face now, and as we understand those realities better, most of our findings will reveal our problems to be even more pressing than we thought they were.

That's just what the 2020s are going be like. https://twitter.com/DrNoelHealy/status/1204204976953626624

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The take away of this story doesn't seem to be that impeachment is bad for Democrats. It's that opposing impeachment is so bad for Democrats they can't remain Democrats. https://twitter.com/AndrewDesiderio/status/1205949264515481600

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NEWS: Rep. Jeff Van Drew, a Democrat who opposes impeachment, plans to switch parties and become a Republican.

Staff were informed today. Question now is when, not if, he makes it official.

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My friend's insurance coded his brain surgeon wrong on their forms and billed him $250k and he had to figure that shit out while dying of cancer https://twitter.com/SmithInAmerica/status/1205546782425538561

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