Filed at 9:30 pm, Friday June 02nd 2006
by Arlen Parsa
Associated Press reports:
A federal judge will go ahead with hearings in a legal challenge to a warrantless domestic surveillance program run by the National Security Agency.
U.S. District Judge Anna Diggs Taylor also criticized the Justice Department for failing to respond to the legal challenge, The Detroit News reported Friday.
The NSA and the Justice Department declined […]
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Filed at 4:30 pm, Wednesday May 24th 2006
by Arlen Parsa
The ACLU ran the above advertisement in several newspapers around the country today. Click the imgae for a larger (readable) version. You can easily join the mass complaint filing at their website here. This is part of the strategy to take on the telcos through the FCC (which doesn’t want to investigate), not from the […]
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Filed at 7:26 pm, Monday May 22nd 2006
by Arlen Parsa
So I thought that Russ Tice was supposed to testify before Congress last week. What ever happened to that? Anybody read anything about that?
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Filed at 6:30 pm, Sunday May 21st 2006
by Arlen Parsa
ABC’s Brian Ross discussing the FBI spying on journalists, if you haven’t already seen it.
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Filed at 10:30 am, Saturday May 20th 2006
by Arlen Parsa
USA Today editor Ken Paulson said yesterday in a written statement to E&P:
It’s been a week since USA Today first reported the existence of a national phone database compiled by the government. That report has been independently confirmed by the New York Times, The Washington Post and others, and has not been challenged in any […]
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Filed at 4:30 pm, Friday May 19th 2006
by Arlen Parsa
BellSouth is demanding that USA Today run a retraction or at least a partial retraction of their NSA story, to say that they weren’t involved in the program meant to monitor millions of Americans and catalog a database of every call ever made in by American citizens. Now this might sound bad, but it’s actually […]
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Filed at 2:30 pm, Friday May 19th 2006
by Arlen Parsa
According to a new CNN/ORC poll, one quarter of Americans believe that they’ve been spied on by the NSA’s illegal domestic spying program.
One in four Americans think it is likely that the government has listened to their phone calls, according to a CNN poll conducted by Opinion Research Corporation.
[…]
The CNN poll found 26 percent of […]
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Filed at 6:30 pm, Wednesday May 17th 2006
by Arlen Parsa
From E&P. Carl Bernstein (of Watergate reporting fame) responds:
“If indeed it is being done — which would be totally consistent with the draconian and disingenuous policies of this presidency in regard to press and the war in Iraq — it is one more offense against the truth by President Bush and his administration,” Bernstein said. […]
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Filed at 4:30 pm, Wednesday May 17th 2006
by Arlen Parsa
So is it possible that the telcos lied on order from the President? ThinkProgress says it’s possible due to a new Presidential memorandum signed on May 5; less than two weeks ago.
Meanwhile, USA Today says that they stand by their reporting, and plan to do follow up articles and continue to investigate.
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Filed at 12:30 pm, Wednesday May 17th 2006
by Arlen Parsa
Congradulations! Instead of seperate lawsuits, you’re all being sued at the same time now for two hundred billion freaking dollars!
Love,
America
P.S.- Reuters says you guys are ‘carefully wording‘ your denials of cooperation with the NSA. I guess that makes you guys better at denying things than the FBI then.
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Filed at 9:30 pm, Tuesday May 16th 2006
by Arlen Parsa
Remember that whole has some on that whole FBI spying on journalists business?. First the FBI confirmed it, then they denied it, and now they seem to be confirming it again. Not much message coordination there obviously. But it seems clear that there is something going on in terms of special monitoring of journalists, […]
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Filed at 2:30 pm, Tuesday May 16th 2006
by Arlen Parsa
Remember that whole FBI illegally spying on ABC/Washington Post/New York Times to figure out their sources thingy? (confirmed here) It’s such a small world. Plamegate to NSA Spygate. Fitzgerald is the link. Atrios summarizes:
Georgia10 reminds us that in a non-Plame related Fitzgerald case he tried to obtained the phone records of some reporters. The judge […]
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Filed at 12:30 pm, Tuesday May 16th 2006
by Arlen Parsa
At left, a very proud looking F. Duane Ackerman (CEO of BellSouth) recieving a certificate (from an extremely displeased looking Richard A. Clarke at right) designating him a member of the President’s National Security telecommunications Advisory Committee in early 2002; around the time this part of the NSA program is thought to have been getting […]
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Filed at 10:30 pm, Monday May 15th 2006
by Arlen Parsa
An informalreport is making its way aroung the blogosphere, suggesting that, through anecdotal evidence and interviews with 6 Qwest customer service employees, people are switching over to the company due to their refusal to cooperate with the NSA.
“Oh yeah, it’s been busy around here,†said Becky. “We’ve been getting almost twice the normal amount and […]
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Filed at 9:30 pm, Monday May 15th 2006
by Arlen Parsa
ABC News:
The FBI acknowledged late Monday that it is increasingly seeking reporters’ phone records in leak investigations.
“It used to be very hard and complicated to do this, but it no longer is in the Bush administration,†said a senior federal official.
This after a report earlier today that the government had been spying on ABC […]
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