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US Politics & Gov't News tagged with surveillance

Illegitimi Non Carborundum
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: FBI, New York Times, Washington Post, Senator Arlen Specter, Senator Patrick Leahy, phone records, surveillance, Robert Mueller III )

RC
- 472 days ago - nytimes.com
The FBI told the NY Times & the Washington Post that it had illegally obtained the phone records of reporters in their Indonesian bureaus in 2004. The agency's director called each newspaper to apologize. Is that enough? NO, say Senators Specter & Leahy.
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Uncle Sam Is Still Watching You
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: bushadministration, government, surveillance )

Michael
- 501 days ago - newsweek.com
The NSA's "data mining" program in which computers look for call patterns that might point to suspicious behavior has never been confirmed by the Bush administration. Industry officials, say the it is a big part of what the telecoms did for the agency
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U.S. Spies Want to Find Terrorists in World of Warcraft
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: surveillance, data mining )


- 618 days ago - blog.wired.com
the U.S. intelligence community is working to develop software that will detect violent extremists infiltrating World of Warcraft and other massive multiplayer games, according to a data-mining report from the Director of National Intelligence.
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Privacy as You Know It Is Dead--But You Can Bring It Back
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: ethics, government, politics, corruption, surveillance, spitzerfreedoms )

Martin
- 624 days ago - scholarsandrogues.com
When a man as powerful as Elliot Spitzer can be felled by a wiretap, what hope do any of us have in a world where our every movement, spoken word, and action is being catalogued in a database?
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FBI Wiretaps Dropped Due to Unpaid Bills
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: surveillance, wiretapping, FBI )


- 686 days ago - rawstory.com
Telephone companies have cut off FBI wiretaps used to eavesdrop on suspected criminals because of the bureau's repeated failures to pay phone bills on time.
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Somebody's Watching You | Center for Media and Democracy
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: surveillance, privacy )


- 687 days ago - prwatch.org
Two leading privacy rights organizations have put together a world map of surveillance societies, rating various nations for their civil liberties records.
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Big Brother in America: NYC Police Move Forward With Evil Scheme to Implement License Plate Scanners
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: Tracking, Surveillance, Police-state, NWO )


- 700 days ago - ny1news.com
New York City police are moving forward on a multimillion-dollar counter-terrorism initiative, installing more than a hundred license plate readers and eventually thousands of cameras in Lower Manhattan. NY1 Criminal Justice Reporter Solana Pyne takes a l
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CIA CRIMINALS: What Congress Already Knew and Knows Now
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: CIA, clandestine intelligence, surveillance, Congress, CIA criminals, intelligence service assassins, torture )

RC
- 817 days ago - thememoryhole.org
A report by the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, US House of Representatives. It dates back to 1996, but still worth noting and reading to see how much our legislators already knew and still know about our intelligence services.
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Rewritten Surveillance Law Passed By Congress Could Give Bush More Power for Domestic Wiretaps
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: Bush, wiretapping, surveillance, Congressional_report, loopholes )

Pretty
- 819 days ago - rawstory.com
The recently passed law which allows President Bush to continue wiretapping Americans' telephone calls overseas may allow for domestic spying as well, according to a new report commissioned by Congress.
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READ EVERYTHING ON REAL IDs - COMING TO YOUR STATE ANY MINUTE
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: REAL ID, surveillance, US spying, invasion of privacy, privacy, ID cards )

RC
- 833 days ago - cnn.com
PLEASE get very familiar with ALL the info on this page, click ALL the links and know what our government has in the pipeline. This is the movie MINORITY REPORT come to life with - THE REAL ID.
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Same 2 Fools to Oversee Newly Expanded FISA
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: FISA, Alberto Gonzalez, Mike McConnell, surveillance, US government )

RC
- 843 days ago - washingtonpost.com
Alberto "The Liar" Gonzales and Mike "The Spook" McConnell will still be in charge of the newly-expanded FISA activities. This is insult to injury!
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Shame on These Democrats!
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: FISA, surveillance, Bush, Democrats )

RC
- 844 days ago - truthout.org
TruthOut lists the Congresspeople who voted for Bush's newly-expanded FISA, and explains the ramifications of the act itself.
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US Government Funds Social Network Snooping
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: surveillance )


- 851 days ago - out-law.com
The US government is funding research into social networking sites and how to gather and store personal data published on them, according to the New Scientist magazine.
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Bush Wants Upgrade, Broader Powers for FISA
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: surveillance, Bush, technology, spying )

RC
- 852 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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