Topic: Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act
PC World - Two cases involving widespread warrantless wiretapping of U.S. citizens by the National Security Agency will face a major hurdle ...
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano was blunt yesterday about America's vulnerability to Al Qaeda and its allies 9-1/2 years after 9/11:...
110-55, S. 1927) was signed into law by George W. Bush on August 5 , 2007 . "The Protect America Act Modernizes The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) To Give Intelligence Professionals The Tools They Urgently Need To Gather Information About Our Enemies, While ...
A contentious aspect of the debate over renewing the Protect America Act (PAA) concerns whether or not telephone companies that cooperated with the United States government's potentially-illegal domestic surveillance program should be immune from prosecution.Those who support retroactive telecom immunity ...
The article reports that the supporters of U.S. presidential candidate Barack Obama were upset by his decision to back the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), and let the candidate know on his open website. "A good playwright loads the dice," Thomas ...
According to Computerworld, U.S. District Court Chief Judge Vaughn R. Walker has thrown out 46 civil lawsuits filed against telecommunications companies that allowed the National Security Agency to tap their networks for terrorist communications without court approval.. The issue of warrantless ...
Gov't requests to eavesdrop on terror suspects declined in 2008; first drop since 9/11 attacksThe Justice Department said Friday that the number of applications approved for eavesdropping on terrorism suspects declined in 2008, the first annual drop since the terror ...
By voting down an amendment to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, the U.S. Senate on Tuesday effectively granted immunity to telecommunications companies that aided the government's warrantless wiretapping program, according to CNNMoney. About 40 civil suits have been filed alleging ...
Or are they simply setting up veto challenges for President Bush, like a Republican Congress did to Clinton? President Bush has declared he will veto any legislation that does not provide immunity from the Bush Administration wiretaps that courts have ruled unconstitutional ...
The president is pushing for revisions to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, citing a heightened terrorist threat for the action. After a special court made a secret ruling sometime in the last few months limiting the government's authority to eavesdrop on ...
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Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act
The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 set up a ...2008-07-01 -
Somethings fishy!
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Somebody's Watching Me: Surveillance and ...
October 23, 2009 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) and FISA ...2009-10-27
