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Just Crazy

…You know the law which relaxed FISA but still required warrents for wiretaps. Let me refresh the memories of Marshall and TPM reader AN http://glenngreenwald.blogspot.it/2006/03/fisa-and-warrantless-surveillance-then.html (Bush ignored the Patriot Act…

Counterterrorism blog

…issued in compliance with FISA would suddenly evaporate with congressional inaction. Instead – even though Congress extended the Protect America Act by two weeks – he is using the existence…

More on Feingold’s Censure Resolution

…the FISA act. Never mind the fact that Bush’s actions are clearly a violation of the FISA act, which is constitutional (in spite of Senator Specter’s flip-flopping claim to the…

Don’t Torture the Constitution

…the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized. It seems the FISA courts hold to the standard of probable cause and not a reasonable basis…

…of this unforunate puzzle comes in today’s NYT: George J. Tenet and his deputies at the Central Intelligence Agency were presented in August 2001 with a briefing paper labeled “Islamic…

Hannity as Goebbels

…regular reported lies of Hannity in his monologue, but here are a few. So he posits that Hillary was personally responsible for the FISA warrant on Carter Page, coming supposedly…