Robert O’Harrow Jr. reports: The White House nominee to lead the Transportation Security Administration gave Congress misleading information about incidents in which he inappropriately accessed a federal database, possibly in violation of privacy laws, documents obtained by The Washington Post show. The disclosure comes as pressure builds from Democrats on Capitol Hill for quick January…
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Web Sites Display Stolen N-a-k-e-d Full Body Scan Images!
Lauren Weinstein blogs: Greetings. Here’s a “fun” question to think about as we get ready to close out 2009. With politicians clamoring for massive deployment of full body scanners at airports, how long do you imagine it will take before we start to see headlines like the title of this posting, inappropriately blaming the Internet…
2nd Circuit Rejects Lawyers’ Petition for Records of Intercepted Calls
Mark Hamblett reports: The refusal of the National Security Agency to disclose whether conversations between lawyers and their clients at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility were intercepted has been upheld by a federal appeals court in Manhattan. Addressing questions of first impression, the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday adopted a doctrine holding…
The Fallout From SD-1544-09-06 : The Feds At My Door
Steven Frischling, the blogger at Flying With Fish reports that he was visited by federal agents because he had posted the full TSA security directive referenced in