Doing away with probable cause for the illusion of security. In their continuous efforts to create the impression that the government is doing something to keep Americans safe, politicians in Washington have misled and lied to the public. They have violated their oaths to uphold the Constitution. They have created a false sense of security. And ... MORE
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Andrew Napolitano: Neither Freedom Nor Safety
Doing away with probable cause for the illusion of security. In their continuous efforts to create the impression that the government is doing something to keep Americans safe, politicians in Washington have misled and lied to the public. They have violated their oaths to uphold the Constitution. They have created a false sense of security. And ... MORERand Paul, Ron Wyden, & The End Of The 9/11 Terror Fog
by Nick Gillespie. So provisions in The Patriot Act have expired, including some (such as section 215) that won't be renewed when Congress gets around to passing the reform legislation known as The USA Freedom Act. This is good news, even if many of the Patriot Act's controversial elements will become authorized under the replacement bill. ... MORENew Privacy App Takes A Page From NSA Technology
by Rob Lever. Before the National Security Agency began complaining about being shut out of encrypted devices, it helped develop software for secure communications that could be adapted by the private sector. That technology is hitting the public this month in the form of a smartphone application called Scrambl3 from a California startup which ... MOREAndrew Napolitano: Saving The Fourth
The Patriot Act has a bad pedigree and an evil history. In the fearful days immediately following 9/11, the Department of Justice quickly sent draft legislation to Congress that, if enacted, would have permitted federal agents to violate their oaths to uphold the Constitution by writing their own search warrants. The draft subsequently was revealed ... MOREJohn W. Whitehead: One Nation Under Surveillance
The NSA's technotyranny. We now have a fourth branch of government. As I document in my new book Battlefield America: The War on the American People, this fourth branch came into being without any electoral mandate or constitutional referendum, and yet it possesses superpowers, above and beyond those of any other government ... MOREErica Werner: Government, What Big You Have!
Obama to Senate: more snooping, please. President Barack Obama called on the Senate Tuesday to extend key Patriot Act provisions before they expire five days from now, including the government's ability to search Americans' phone records. "This needs to get done," he told reporters in the Oval Office. "It's necessary to keep the ... MOREPCN Editorial: The Surveillance State Is Illegal
Court gives NSA thumbs down. A U.S. appeals court's ruling that the National Security Agency's metadata collection was illegal turned the spy state upside down in almost 100 pages of common sense and solid understanding of the rights Americans have under the law. It shows, once again, that both common sense and a respect for the rights ... MORERon Hart: The Court Vindicates Edward Snowden
Who watches the watchers? “They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” -Ben Franklin, 1759. Those of us who defended Edward Snowden in his efforts to expose our government’s illegal data collection activities were vindicated last week, as was Mr. Snowden. In essence, ... MOREJacob Sullum: 2 Cases That Illustrate Warrantless Snooping Goes Far Beyond The NSA's Phone-Record Dragnet
If only the Fourth Amendment had teeth. Last week a federal appeals court said
police do not need a warrant to look at cellphone records that reveal
everywhere you've been. Two days later, another appeals court said
the National Security Agency (NSA) is breaking the law by
indiscriminately collecting telephone records that show ... MORERand Paul Threatens To Filibuster Patriot Act Renewal
by Nick Morpus. Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.), who energized conservatives, independents and even many progressives in 2013 with his 13-hour drone filibuster,
has now threatened to do the same if the Senate attempts to reauthorize
the National Security Agency’s mass data collection programs. The New Hampshire Union Leader reports: ... MORE
Of Snowden And The NSA, Only One Has Acted Unlawfully
by James Ball. And it's not Snowden. On 6 June 2013, the Guardian published a secret US court order against the phone company Verizon, ordering it on an “ongoing, daily basis” to hand over the call records of its millions of US customers to the NSA – just one of numerous orders enabling the government’s highly secret domestic mass surveillance ... MORELawmakers Move To End Warrantless Domestic Surveillance
by Grant Gross. If only we had a Fourth Amendment, this wouldn't be necessary. A new bill in Congress would require law enforcement agencies to get
court-ordered warrants before targeting U.S. residents in searches of
electronic communications collected by the National Security Agency. The End Warrantless Surveillance of Americans
Act, introduced ... MOREPatriot Act Faces Revisions Backed by Both Parties
by Jonathan Weisman and Jennifer Steinhauser. Maybe NSA will just ignore the law again. After more than a decade of wrenching national debate over the intrusiveness of government intelligence agencies, a bipartisan wave of support has gathered to sharply limit the federal government’s sweeps of phone and Internet records. ... MOREThe Time To Limit NSA Snooping Is Now
by Jacob Sullum. Reauthorizing unamended PATRIOT Act would be reckless. When Congress passed the PATRIOT Act in 2001, it did not intend to
authorize the indiscriminate collection of personal information about
every American. But that is what Congress will be doing if it renews the
law next month without changes aimed at protecting our privacy ... MORE
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