Josh Peterson reports: Domestic spying capabilities used by the National Security Agency to collect massive amounts of data on American citizens could soon be available to the Department of Homeland Security — a bureaucracy with the power to arrest citizens that is not subject to limitations imposed on the NSA. Read more on The Daily Caller. Thanks…
Category: Govt
Feds Must Produce NSA Dragnet Records for Criminal Defense
In the wake of revelations about NSA amassing phone records, a sharp defense lawyer filed a motion to compel the government to turn over his client’s records that might exonerate him. Julia Filip reports: Citing the NSA telephone dragnet, a federal judge ordered the United States government to deliver telephone records demanded by a man…
Rep sparks confusion over claim NSA can wiretap without warrant
Because I noted Rep. Nadler’s comments on getting a different story in a classified briefing than what Director Mueller testified to last week, I thought it important to note this follow-up: A Capitol Hill lawmaker sparked a string of conflicting statements about the limits of U.S. surveillance after claiming during a hearing last week that…
PCLOB to meet Wednesday
The Privacy and Civil Liberties Board is getting to work on the surveillance/FISA issues. But they’ll do so behind closed doors for now. Via Cryptome, from the Federal Register: PRIVACY AND CIVIL LIBERTIES OVERSIGHT BOARD [Notice-PCLOB-2013-03; Docket No 2013-0004; Sequence No. 3] Sunshine Act Meeting TIME AND DATE: 1:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m. on Wednesday, June 19,…