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US Politics & Gov't News tagged with spying

Iran President Urges Full Defense for US Reporter
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: government, Iran, American-Iranian, American journalist, spying, freedoms )

Dee
- 220 days ago - news.yahoo.com
TEHRAN, Iran - Iran's president said Sunday that an American journalist convicted of spying for the U.S. should be allowed to offer a full defense during her appeal, a day after she was sentenced to eight years in prison.
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FBI Can Now Interrogate of Americans Without Any Links to Terrorism
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: FBI, domestic surveillance, domestic interrogation, Michael Mukasey, spying, terrorism )

RC
- 409 days ago - washingtonpost.com
The excuse for new "guidelines" allowing the EFF-BEE-EYE to pull all kinds of dirty tricks on unsuspecting innocents is "the guidelines are necessary to fulfill the FBI's core mission to predict threats and respond even before an attack takes place." HAH!
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NSA Agents Admit Spying on Americans' Private Calls
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: spying, homeland security, abuse, americans, bush, bushadministration, cheney, cia, constitution, corruption, crime, dishonesty, ethics, freedoms, government )

Deborah
- 411 days ago - rawstory.com
The Bush administration has repeatedly defended its warrantless surveillance. Two intercept operators who worked for the National Security Agency at Fort Gordon in Georgia have come forward to tell ABC News that isn't true.
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FISA, Telecom Immunity, and Cheney Lies...Watch This   video
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: telecoms, att, sprint, bell, privacy, rights, spy, spying, government, uncoinstitutional, fisa, cheney, bush, impeach )

Ratty
- 665 days ago - youtube.com
Note, the guy doesn't go far enough about how bad this is...ALL internet is routed where the net is least busy, so a person in the US emailing another US person can have their email go outside our borders. Therefore it's everyone at risk.
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Privacy Rights: Spying on Us
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: Privacy, Rights, Spying, wiretapping, domestic, americans, usa, unethical, warrantless, criminal, unconstitutional, human rights, freedoms, Govtfearmongering, corruption, constitution, bushadministration, bush, cia, cheney, americans, abuse, congress, cov )

TW
- 704 days ago - seattlepi.nwsource.com
The thought that telecommunications companies might be granted retroactive immunity from lawsuits for cooperating with the government's warrantless wiretapping programs ought to keep lawmakers up at night.
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Next Generation Identification Being Readied By the FBI - You Can Run, But You Can't Hide
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: FBI, biometric data, fingerprints, iris patterns, spying, loss of privacy )

RC
- 704 days ago - washingtonpost.com
A huge database with biometric traits, including for the time being images of faces, fingerprints and palm patterns but projected to add iris patterns, face-shape data, scars and other uniquely-identifying data, is the latest FBI pet project.
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Filibuster Amnesty Bill for AT&T and Verizon
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: abuse, bushadministration, spying )

Brandy
- 713 days ago - act.credomobile.com
The White House does not often lose a fight that really matters. However, the struggle to secure amnesty for the telecom companies that helped the Bush administration illegally spy on Americans may be the rare exception.
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Nada Prouty Worked for the FBI and CIA Now There's Worry She's Not Who They Thought She Was
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: politics, terrorism, fbi, cia, lies, government, usa, middle-east, cia, crime, hezbollah, lebanon, spying )

Juliana
- 736 days ago - tayyar.org
She was just what the spooks were looking for. Nada Nadim Prouty was athletically fit and aggressive, shrewd and tough-minded. She spoke fluent Arabic--an all-too-rare skill in the American intelligence community--and she had a CPA's license, the better to
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Now That Israel Is in Charge of Our Foreign Policy, We Really Should Feel Safe!
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: Israel, espionage, foreign, policy, interests, U.S., spying, treason, national, interest )

Sam
- 754 days ago - news.yahoo.com
Condoleezza Rice and more than a dozen other current and former intelligence officials must testify about their conversations with pro-Israel lobbyists, a federal judge ruled in an espionage case. The trial could reveal how our foreign policy is crafted.
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FBI Spied on King's Widow
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: FBI, Civil Liberties, spying, abuses, corruption )

Sam
- 816 days ago - news.yahoo.com
Federal agents spied on the widow of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. for several years after his assassination in 1968, according to newly released documents that reveal the FBI worried about her following in the footsteps of the slain civil rights icon.
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Oh Goody, Now They're Using Spy Satellites on Us!
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: spying, domestic spying, US intelligence )

RC
- 831 days ago - online.wsj.com
Chips, Real IDs and now - more spying with satellites! Yes, they have been up there awhile, but now even MORE entities can access them for information on us and our movements.
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House Approves Foreign Wiretap Bill
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: bush, bushadministration, government, congress, spying, spying programs, security, invasion, humans, foreign )


- 842 days ago - news.aol.com
WASHINGTON (AP) - The House handed President Bush a victory Saturday, voting to expand the government's abilities to eavesdrop without warrants on foreign suspects whose communications pass through the United States. The 227-183 vote, which followed
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Bush Wants Upgrade, Broader Powers for FISA
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: surveillance, Bush, technology, spying )

RC
- 850 days ago - voanews.com
In his weekly radio liefest, Bush called for the broadening and upgrading of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. But Democratic Congressional leaders have concerns about this. I can't imagine why...can YOU?
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EFF: FOIA Litigation for Accountable Government (FLAG) Project
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: corruption, cover-up, freedoms, spying, privacy, FOIA )

Davida
- 858 days ago - eff.org
National security and law enforcement demand some level of government secrecy, but too much secrecy enables abuses of power. The Justice Department's cell phone tracking without probable cause, the NSA's illegal spying program, and other recent privacy...
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