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Just one major telecommunications company refused to participate in a legally dubious NSA surveillance program in 2001. A few years later, its CEO was indicted by federal prosecutors. He was ...
by markthshark
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on Tue Oct 01, 2013 at 03:00 PM PDT
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One of the Republicans' chief arguments for policy is to let the free market do its work. Well, now it's time for us to game the free market. If we believe as heavily in the concept of civil ...
by alkatt
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on Fri Jun 20, 2008 at 09:45 AM PDT
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The fight to ensure that our Democratic Congress continues to hold its ground and refuses to take Jay ...
by thereisnospoon
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on Thu May 01, 2008 at 03:16 PM PDT
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Confirming Kagro's theory that every day without telco amnesty brings yet another potential revelation about how this ...
by Joan McCarter
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on Mon Mar 17, 2008 at 12:37 PM PDT
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The Court of Appeals has thrown out the convictions of former Qwest CEO Joseph Nacchio and ordered a new trial with a new judge.
CNBC reports that the convictions were overturned because Nacchio ...
by baldheadeddork
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on Mon Mar 17, 2008 at 10:44 AM PDT
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Ha ha . RNC press release:
To help meet its goal of holding the most tech-savvy convention in history, the Committee on ...
by kos
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on Thu Mar 06, 2008 at 11:15 AM PST
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[Note to Daily Kos friends: We’ve been talking about FISA a lot. I’ve decided that I need to do more to get the conversation to friends and folks in my community who are not ...
by Milos Janus Outlook
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on Fri Feb 15, 2008 at 09:57 PM PST
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Day four in our five-part series on the most-overlooked stories of the FISA debate.
The NSA, phone companies and government are in deeper than we knew
In December,
by ACLU
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on Tue Jan 22, 2008 at 08:03 AM PST
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As we ring in the new legislative year, the ACLU thought it would be appropriate to have a little countdown of our own. The FISA Amendments Act of 2007 hits the Senate floor once again next week, ...
by ACLU
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on Wed Jan 16, 2008 at 07:58 AM PST
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How would you react if I argued that we are now living in a dictatorship? The signs are there: The admininstration has defied the 2006 election mandate on Iraq, it has vetoed a broadly bi-partisan ...
by dweb8231
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on Sun Dec 16, 2007 at 06:14 AM PST
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Do you want the terrorists to win? What do you think has prevented another American soil terrorist attack? Obviously it was the NSA wiretapping. To go back to the quaint Bill of Rights only plays ...
by bobinson
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on Thu Oct 25, 2007 at 06:07 PM PDT
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Glen Greemwald has just posted here that it looks like Reid plans to ignore Dodd's hold on the FISA bill that would give the telecom's amnesty for ...
by Bartimaeus Blue
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on Fri Oct 19, 2007 at 09:41 AM PDT
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Last night's airing of the PBS Frontline documentary " Cheney's Law " could not have come at a more fitting time. As Congress begins ...
by Jon Perr
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on Wed Oct 17, 2007 at 10:32 AM PDT
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When someone asks you to give them an example of the Executive Branch of our government abusing the privileges granted them to protect the public, be sure to point ...
by Casey Morris
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on Wed Oct 17, 2007 at 10:17 AM PDT
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Hi there.
I live in Los Angeles and I am going to be moving to a new home in a different part of Los Angeles next month and I will need to order telephone service. I am currently with AT&T, but I ...
by derekcbart
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on Tue Oct 16, 2007 at 01:17 PM PDT
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The lawlessness of the rulers of our country is on full display as the Congress considers whether to grant immunity to the nation's telephone companies for their blatant violations of the law (with ...
by richardbell608
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on Tue Oct 16, 2007 at 01:14 PM PDT
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Oh boy this is exciting. We've got yet another opportunity to see an upcoming Sternly Worded Letter (SWL) written by one of our Congressional leaders. This time it's Judiciary Committee Chairman ...
by MisterOpus1
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on Mon Oct 15, 2007 at 08:06 PM PDT
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PART II: The Great Bandwidth Rip-Off
Yesterday, we covered the basics of how the NSA scoops up huge amounts of data about U.S. citizens without warrants. That’s a violation of the ...
by leveymg
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on Mon Oct 15, 2007 at 03:41 PM PDT
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CALEA – Now, Even Starbucks is Required to Spy on You
While the wiretap law that’s supposed to protect Americans from warrantless government wiretaps, FISA, is now widely known, few ...
by leveymg
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on Sun Oct 14, 2007 at 01:34 PM PDT
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In case anyone's missed it, it now seems abundantly clear that the Bush Administration began paying AT&T and other major telecommunications companies to ignore FISA and commence surveillance of our ...
by farmbo
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on Sat Oct 13, 2007 at 04:59 PM PDT
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