Category Archives for NSA / FISA
Odds, Ends (including a brief review of the NSA “domestic spy” proceedings)
Tweet1. Thanks so much to John Nowak for the Ed Wood SE DVD. A great flick, and I look forward to poring through the extras. 2. After my weeks of doing battle over the NSA “domestic spying” controversy, I am … Continue reading
“What if Wiretapping Works?”
TweetNeo-Rethuglican liberal circuit court judge Richard Posner, writing in the New Republic (a one-time periodical stalwart for Democratic principles; now, sadly, a beard for sport coat-and-jeans neocons looking to distinguish themselves from the three piecers of the traditionally conservative Buckley … Continue reading
Who are Yoo? Who who, who who? (UPDATED TO ADDRESS THE “UNITARY EXECUTIVE THEORY” CANARD NOW MAKING THE ROUNDS ON THE LEFT AND IN SOME CIVIL LIBERTIES ABSOLUTISTS CIRCLES)
TweetThough to listen to many on the left, John Yoo was never so much “deputy assistant attorney general” under President Bush from 2001-2003 as he was a crazed proto-totalitarian race traitor (who, when he wasn’t butchering the constitution, was sitting … Continue reading
Sunday Morning’s Coming Down (and with have the intercepts to prove it)
TweetHere. Today I’ll let Powerline do some of the heavy lifting on the NSA “domestic spy” story so that I can get out of the house for a bit. Here, they raise some interesting points about the rather directed coverage … Continue reading
The Specter of coming Congressional grandstanding? (UPDATED – 1/26/06)
TweetHere’s a facsimile [pdf] of the letter delivered by Arlen Specter to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales concerning the upcoming Congressional “wiretapping”/”domestic spying” show trial hearings. The complete text follows:
The NSA spy scandal, cont.: AG Gonzales’ prepared remarks to the Georgetown Law Center (Jan 24)
TweetRather than launch into another long post detailing my position on the NSA “domestic spying” scandal—a position that at this point must certainly be clear to all but the most doggedly committed contrarians (or else those who have concluded that … Continue reading
NSA “Domestic Spy” story: additional information revealed?
TweetHere is the complete transcript (including Q&A) of Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence and former Director of the NSA General Michael Hayden, addressing the National Press Club yesterday. (h/t Bob Owens—who believes the transcript hint that all speculation on … Continue reading
The Umpire Strikes Back (UPDATED)
TweetI am tired of having this same NSA conversation—until we know all the facts (and because of what’s left of the classified nature of the program, we’re not likely ever to know all of them), we simply repeatedly rehearse argument … Continue reading
FISA score, and 7 years ago…
TweetThe DoJ has put out another 42 pg brief (PDF) defending its NSA foreign surveillance program, while still maintaining (in my admittedly very cursory skimming of the document) its inherent authority in theory to authorize and continue the program, and … Continue reading
“ACLU Sues to Stop Illegal Spying on Americans, Saying President is Not Above the Law” (with helpful protein wisdom gloss)
TweetFrom the ACLU Press release: Saying that the Bush administration’s illegal spying on Americans must end, the American Civil Liberties Union today filed a first-of-its-kind lawsuit against the National Security Agency seeking to stop a secret electronic surveillance program that … Continue reading
