John Yoo, the attorney who was allegedly hand-picked by the Bush administration to be read into the President’s Surveillance Program so that he would give them paper providing legal justification, has responded to last week’s report by inspector generals on the program and his role in it. In an op-ed piece in today’s Wall Street…
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Warrantless wiretaps just the tip
… The OIG report is ultimately one chapter in the larger story of how, in the wake of the September 11 attacks, both the executive and the legislative branches of government were willing to turn a blind eye to whatever they thought had to be done to stop further attacks. This attitude, which was shared…
Terrorist Surveillance Program, unplugged
A long-awaited report on the Terrorist Surveillance Program was released today. An unclassified version of the report prepared by the Office of Inspectors General for the Departments of Defense, Justice, the CIA, NSA, and DNI is entitled Unclassified Report on the President’s Surveillance Program (pdf). The report’s discussion of the President’s Surveillance Program (PSP) makes…
Jewel v. NSA back in court next week
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and the Obama administration will be back in Judge Vaughn Walker’s court on July 15 when the court takes up the administration’s motion to dismiss a case involving warrantless surveillance of Americans. EFF brought the suit on behalf of Carolyn Jewel, a California database administrator who is an AT&T customer,…