When FISA expires tonight, will the FBI still be able to receive unauthorized email access from an entire computer network by an “unnamed Internet provider.”
Mr. President, can you hear me now?
Verizon has confirmed to Congress that it has had an open-door policy with the Bush administration — providing any information requested by “federal authorities,” regardless of whether the requests were accompanied by a court order or not. Although Verizon categorized National Security Letter (NSL) requests as subpoenas, technically and [...]
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House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyer’s (D-MI) remarks on FBI Director Robert Mueller’s recently released notes on the Ashcroft hospital visit.
“Director Mueller’s notes and recollections concerning the White House visit to the Attorney General’s hospital bed confirm an attempt to goad a sick and heavily medicated Ashcroft to approve the warrantless surveillance program,” said Conyers. [...]
As promised in his 7/26 testimony before the House Judiciary Committee, FBI Director Robert Mueller has provided the committee his notes (pdf) of the infamous confrontation between Alberto Gonzales and then Acting Attorney General James Comey in John Ashcroft’s hospital.
Mueller’s view that the meeting was “out of the ordinary” prompted his notation of the incident.
Does [...]
Breaking! Breaking! Breaking! The FBI has discovered it is violating wiretapping and data collection laws. Sound familiar? At first, I thought the WaPo made a mistake and republished a previous article from March - I’m not kidding. Well it’s similar, you could almost take a March article (there were multiple) and just replace the numbers, [...]
The Washington Post has a long article in today’s edition about FBI Director Robert Mueller using the FBI’s Gulfstream V jet for travel that does not adhere to the purposes the jet was originally purchased for. In the late ’90’s, Congress approved the purchase of the 12-passenger jet, which is equipped with “state-of-the-art security and communications equipment” [...]
A story that Vice President Dick Cheney may have had a role in the infamous forged Niger documents is rapidly rising. The salient point of the short version of the story is, the FBI was charged with investigating the forged documents, but a real investigation may have never ensued as a result of intervention by [...]
FBI Director Robert Mueller appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee Tuesday, wisely bringing a sense of humility and penitence with him. Mueller rolled out his groveling rug as he attempted to explain why the FBI broke the law to obtain Americans’ email, financial, and phone records.
Mueller attributed the abuse to “mistakes, carelessness, confusion, lack of [...]
I watched yesterday’s House Judiciary Committee hearing on the FBI’s abuse of national security letters to collect personal data, and a key point, in my opinion, was not addressed. Members of the committee did not fully question witnesses on when did the FBI start taking corrective actions for known abuses? The answers to when the FBI took [...]
As I mentioned previously, the FBI is illegally plundering in your private lives and yesterday FBI Director Robert Mueller stood before Congress, again, explaining why. Falling on his sword with statements of personal accountability, Mueller dutifully carries out the Penitential Order liturgy before Congress. Why does Congress continue to grant him absolution? I want to [...]
In spite of what the Constitution says about privacy; in spite of the statues which further define the applicable laws; and in spite of Mr. Gonzales prior promises to adhere to U.S. laws, nothing changes. Here again, there is another clear violation of the United States Code. More specifically, 50 U.S.C. § 1802.
The Justice [...]
As Ronald Reagan said in 1980, “There you go again.”
New Mexico can add this to their list of supporting documentation for the Articles of Impeachment they are sending to Congress.
FISA, what FISA? With the swipe of a pen, President Bush and the Pentagon have violated the Federal Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). While the Pentagon’s illegal [...]
Newly released documents show John Bolton, then deputy FBI director, unleashed the FBI on witnesses that were perceived to be harmful to then Associate Justice William Rehnquist’s confirmation hearings to be Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. The documents also show the late Chief Justice’s coercive political behavior and drug addiction.
In July 1986, when President Ronald [...]
The FBI (can’t you hear Hannibal saying F-B-I) is casting a dragnet over federal intelligence agencies. They’re attempting to catch the perp that leaked classified information about NSA’s warrantless surveillance program, “The Project.â€
Maybe they should focus less on the agencies and on the Office of the Vice President – that seems to be the source [...]
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