Tag: PATRIOTACT

A recent court ruling indicated that the Bush-era warrantless wiretappings were indeed illegal, confirming what most people already considered blatantly obvious. Some observers will undoubtedly and rightfully celebrate that ruling, and pronounce that it may signal a move toward increased law enforcement transparency and strengthened individual freedoms. Yet, according to an official government ...

Among the many controversial policies enacted under the George W. Bush administration, perhaps the most legally nebulous was the National Security Agency's wiretapping program, which authorized federal agents to monitor Americans' phone calls and e-mails in the name of national security. When it was revealed that federal officials had been monitoring the phone calls of the now defunct Islamic ...

Remember those pesky little warrant-less wiretaps George W. Bush defended back in the day? Remember how he said that only those guilty of talking to terrorists would be targeted by surveillance? Well, it turns out -- surprise, surprise -- that wasn't exactly the whole truth. In an interview with MSNBC's Keith Olbermann last week, Russell Tice, a former National Security Agency (NSA) analyst, ...