A federal appeals court reinstated a landmark lawsuit challenging the Bush Administration’s abuse of the privacy of innocent Americans with amendments it pushed in the name of security after 9/11 to the Foreign Surveillance Act, a statute that gave the executive branch virtually unchecked power to collect international e-mails and telephone calls. The American Civil…
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ACLU Grades Obama's First 100 Days on Civil Liberties
by Glynn Wilson Editor and Publisher Michael W. Macleod-Ball, an attorney who has worked from one end of the country to another from Maine to Alaska, now a legislative policy counsel lobbyist for the American Civil Liberties Union, made a swing around Alabama Tuesday to update activists on where their rights stand under the new…
Fourth Amendment Rights Hang in the Balance
Intel Court Upholds Executive Warrantless Surveillance Power by Glynn Wilson On the very day when the day President Bush made his farewell speech to the nation, a special federal appeals court released a rare declassified opinion from August 22 of last year backing the government’s authority to intercept international phone conversations and e-mails from U.S.…
