An Open Letter to Dianne Feinstein About the Bill of Rights
Dear Senator Feinstein:On Thursday, when you responded to news about massive ongoing surveillance of phone records of people in the United States, you slipped past the meaning of the Fourth Amendment....
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OR-Sen: Help Jeff Merkley (D) Spread The Word About Repealing The Monsanto...
Received this e-mail today from Senator Jeff Merkley (D. OR) regarding his push to repeal the Monsanto Protection Act: Here's the deal: The next several days are critical if we're going to repeal the...
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FISA Oversight Score for 2012: NSA: 1,789 vs Fourth Amendment: 0
There has been a legal game unfolding before our very eyes for quite a while now.Some remain gleefully glib about it. Others sternfully serious.It's only our Constitution, and in particular our 4th...
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CO-Sen: Mark Udall (D), "No proof terrorism stopped by phone records program"
Senator Mark Udall (D. CO) disproves the argument that the NSA surveillance program is meant to keep us safe in the War On Terror: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/..."It's unclear to me that we've...
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CO-Sen: Mark Udall (D), "US collecting data on Americans doesn’t have to be...
Senator Mark Udall (D. CO) keeps on fighting and advocating for a balance between representing American citizens privacy and protection: http://blogs.denverpost.com/... Sen. Mark Udall said Sunday...
View ArticleRon Wyden and Mark Udall Challenge NSA
Senators: NSA must correct inaccurate claims over privacy protectionsTwo senators on the intelligence committee on Monday accused the National Security Agency of publicly presenting "inaccurate"...
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NM-Sen: Tom Udall's (D) Bill To Prevent Funding To Syrian Rebels Gains...
Senator Tom Udall (D. NM), who is a member of the Senate Armed Forces Committee, has been pushing legislation to stop President Barack Obama from ordering U.S. military action in Syria:...
View ArticleNSA Senate Hearing: DiFi Not Amused
The Guardian Liveblog of Senate Intelligence CommitteeFeinstein says metadata collection does not amount to surveillance. "Much of the press has called this a surveillance program. It is not... the...
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CO-Sen: Udall (D), Wyden (D. OR), Blumenthal (D. CT) & Paul (R. KY) Introduce...
Senator Mark Udall (D. CO) and his colleagues have introduced a new NSA reform package to combat the program's domestic surveillance activities: http://www.theguardian.com/... Four senators at the...
View ArticleFeinstein wants mass domestic spying. Let's get her off the intel committee.
Today Senate intelligence committee chair Dianne Feinstein came out against spying on foreign leaders, but is for mass spying on Americans. Since she was just reelected and there's no recall procedure,...
View ArticleBig Brother’s Loyal Sister: How Dianne Feinstein Is Betraying Civil Liberties
Ever since the first big revelations about the National Security Agency five months ago, Dianne Feinstein has been in overdrive to defend the surveillance state. As chair of the Senate Intelligence...
View ArticleWikiLeaks and the Drone Strike Transparency Bill
The Senate Intelligence Committee recently took an important step by passing an intelligence authorization which would require for the first time - if it became law - that the Administration publicly...
View ArticleTorture and the Harvard Man
is the title of an op ed that appeared in yesterday's Harvard Crimson and which I read, and you can read, at Reader Supported News. The author, Glenn L. Carle, is a Harvard graduate who spent 23 years...
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CO-Sen: Mark Udall (D), "Time To End NSA 'Status Quo'"
Senator Mark Udall (D. CO) is keeping up the fight for serious NSA reform: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/... Sen. Mark Udall (D-CO), a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, on Sunday called on...
View ArticleWheeler: “Clapper Confirms NSA Engages In Domestic Surveillance,” It's Not...
After closely following the National Security Agency story for two years (16+ months before anyone ever heard the name, Edward Snowden), I can honestly say that blogger and journalist Marcy Wheeler’s...
View ArticleCO-Sen: Shorter M.Udall: ResQ Me+BHO+UrSelf B4 2late!
Senate Intelligence Committee member Mark Udall’s public release of this letter, addressed to President Obama, invites the question ofwhy didn’t Udall hold the letter back long enough to obtain...
View ArticleIf News Headline Writers Told the Core Truth
Intensified Constitutional Crisis: CIA Doubles Down on Democracy-Defying Fiat Power; Congress Continues to Roll OverCongress could publish CIA torture report anytime it likes, but pretends not to have...
View ArticleFull-On Constitutional Crisis: Senate Intel. Committee vs. CIA Over Torture...
Senate Intelligence Committee staff were investigating the Central Intelligence Agency's Bush/Cheney-era torture programs.*The compromise agreement between the Intelligence Committee and the CIA...
View ArticleThe Feinstein Syndrome: “The Fourth Amendment for Me, But Not for Thee”
Who knows, soon we might see headlines and cable TV shows asking: "Is Dianne Feinstein a whistleblower or a traitor?"A truthful answer to that question could not possibly be “whistleblower.” It may...
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CO-Sen: Mark Udall (D) Stalls Vote On Top CIA Lawyer Over Probe Dispute
Good move: http://www.nbcnews.com/... Democratic Sen. Mark Udall, D-Colo., has a "hold" -- a procedural tool to stall a nomination -- on the Obama administration's pick to be the Central Intelligence...
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