It’s Been a Weird Day in a Good Way: Two Court Rulings Represent Hope for Privacy

by Eileen | 7:06 pm, March 15, 2013

In one day, two major court decisions have put Executive overreach on the defensive and given civil liberty advocates momentum. In California, a federal judge held that National Security Letters, with their built-in gag orders, are unconstitutional. (Decision, here.) Meanwhile, federal courts also reinstated an ACLU lawsuit challenging the CIA’s ‘Glomar’ response of targeted drone [...]

Supreme Courts Blesses Warrantless Surveillance of Citizens in a Kafkaesque Farce

by Eileen | 9:40 pm, February 26, 2013

In a 5-4 ruling with Alito writing for the majority, SCOTUS upheld warrantless wiretaps of Americans, provided the government states it has a good faith belief the citizen is speaking to a foreign national involved in terrorism. Plainly, provided they can keep a straight face while claiming they thought your pen pal was an al’Qaeda [...]

Zombie CISPA Walks Among Us, and Counting on a Presidential Veto is Folly

by Eileen | 7:49 am, February 17, 2013

CISPA, the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, is back.  In the last Congress, House Intelligence Chair Mike Rogers (R-MI) and ranking member Dutch Ruppersberger (D-MD) introduced the bill and got it through the House.  After that, the Senate ignored it.  Now, Rogers and Ruppersberger are running the same version of CISPA that passed in [...]

Drones Over America: Obama Won’t Absolutely Rule out Domestic Drone Assasinations, and That’s Tell Us All We Need to Know

by Eileen | 9:17 pm, February 16, 2013

Does Barack Obama hold that he can order the use of drone strikes to assassinate Americans on U.S. soil? This is a crystal clear yes-or-no question.  But Barry won’t answer it.  That, itself, is the answer. Make no mistake, both he and his flunkies have been asked to provide a real answer to that question, [...]

Zombie CISPA Rears It’s Ugly, Privacy-Raping Death-Beast Head

by Eileen | 9:51 am, February 10, 2013

CISPA is coming back. In 2001, during the 112th Congress, the House Intelligence Committee gave hideous bipartisan birth to a privacy-raping death beast. The Cyber Intelligence and Sharing and Protection Act was, on its face, all about fighting those pesky terrorist pricks. Under CISPA, government agencies and private sector companies would have been able to [...]

Obama’s Justice Department Decides It’s Legal to Kill Americans for No Real Reason; the Left Shrugs

by Eileen | 9:51 pm, February 6, 2013

In 1209, at the Massacre at Béziers, the invading force’s commander ordered every inhabitant of the town slaughtered – “Kill them all, God will know his own”. Traditionally, this has not been used as a positive example. Barack Obama, though, is not a traditional president. Somehow, a 16 page white paper from the Department of [...]

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