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Eavesdropping
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Monday, March 13, 2006
Friday, March 3, 2006
Art Firm Alleges Misconduct by Lawyers
Business |
March 3, 2006
Thomas Kinkade Co., owned by the self-described “Painter of Light,”
on Thursday filed a lawsuit accusing opposing lawyers in a case
brought by former gallery owners of illegally eavesdropping during
arbitration hearings last year. Read more
Monday, February 20, 2006
Privacy Guardian Is Still a Paper Tiger
National |
February 20, 2006
For Americans troubled by the prospect of federal agents
eavesdropping on their phone conversations or combing through their
Internet records, there is good news: A little-known board exists in
the White House whose purpose is to ensure that privacy and civil
liberties are protected in the fight against terrorism. Read more
Wednesday, January 25, 2006
Tuesday, January 24, 2006
In Long Address, Bush Defends Spying Program
National |
January 24, 2006
President Bush said Monday that spying on people in the United States
by the National Security Agency and soon-to-expire elements of the
Patriot Act were legal means to fight terrorism as he made a public
embrace of the programs aimed at turning them to political advantage. Read more
Monday, January 23, 2006
Lawmakers Debate New Limits on Spying
National |
January 23, 2006
Lawmakers of both parties Sunday called for Congress to consider
whether new restrictions were needed on government surveillance in
suspected terrorism cases involving people in the United States. Read more
Saturday, January 21, 2006
GOP Praises Eavesdropping Program
National |
January 21, 2006
The Bush administration is launching an aggressive effort to persuade
Americans that a controversial National Security Agency program of
domestic eavesdropping without obtaining warrants is legal and justified. Read more
Wednesday, January 18, 2006
Lawsuits Target Spying Program
National |
January 18, 2006
Two lawsuits filed Tuesday in federal courts seek to end President
Bush’s electronic eavesdropping program, saying it is illegal and
exceeds his constitutional powers. Read more
Monday, January 16, 2006
Specter Remains Doubtful of Spy Program’s Legality
National |
January 16, 2006
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) Read more
Thursday, January 12, 2006
Bush Calls Spying Inquiry Inevitable
National |
January 12, 2006
President Bush acknowledged Wednesday that congressional hearings
into his domestic spying program were inevitable, but he said they
would be “good for democracy” as long as they did not “tell the enemy
what we’re doing.” Read more
Monday, January 2, 2006
Bush Says Terrorism Warrants Spying in U.S.
National |
January 2, 2006
Emphasizing that “we are at war with an enemy who wants to hurt us
again,” President Bush on Sunday strongly defended the domestic
eavesdropping program that began in 2002, and repeated his contention
that the disclosure of its existence had caused the country “great harm.” Read more
Sunday, December 25, 2005
U.S. Spying Is Much Wider, Some Suspect
National |
December 25, 2005
President Bush has acknowledged that several hundred targeted
Americans were wiretapped without warrants under the National
Security Agency’s domestic spying program, and now some U.S.
officials and outside experts say they suspect that the government is
engaged in a far broader U.S. surveillance operation. Read more
Saturday, December 24, 2005
Paranoia on the left and the right
Entertainment |
December 24, 2005
WHEN George W. Bush promised that his administration would promote
faith-based initiatives, who would have guessed that one of them
would involve asserting the divine right of presidents? Read more
Friday, December 23, 2005
Bush Formally Defends Spy Program
National |
December 23, 2005
The Bush administration formally defended its domestic spying program
in a letter to Congress late Thursday, saying the nation’s security
outweighs privacy concerns of individuals who are monitored. Read more
Wednesday, December 21, 2005
Cheney Defends Domestic Spying
National |
December 21, 2005
President Bush’s decision to bypass court review and authorize
domestic wiretapping by executive order was part of a concerted
effort to rebuild presidential powers weakened in the 1970s as a
result of the Watergate scandal and the Vietnam War, Vice President
Dick Cheney said Tuesday. Read more
Officials Fault Case Bush Cited
National |
December 21, 2005
In confirming the existence of a top-secret domestic spying program,
President Bush offered one case as proof that authorities desperately
needed the eavesdropping ability in order to plug a hole in the
counter-terrorism firewall that had allowed the Sept. Read more
Tuesday, December 20, 2005
Bush Insists on Tools to Fight Terror
National |
December 20, 2005
President Bush launched a bristling counteroffensive Monday against
critics of his domestic anti-terrorism policies, saying it was
“inexcusable” for the Senate to delay renewal of the Patriot Act and
insisting that his decision to order electronic eavesdropping without
court approval was legal and proper. Read more
Monday, December 19, 2005
Lawmakers Urge Review of U.S. Spy Program
National |
December 19, 2005
Lawmakers from both parties called Sunday for a congressional review
to consider whether President Bush violated federal law by secretly
approving domestic spying – without court-approved warrants – on
American citizens and U.S. residents suspected of terrorist ties. Read more
Sunday, December 18, 2005
Bush Defends Eavesdropping as Defense Against Terrorism
National |
December 18, 2005
President Bush, facing fresh criticism about how he has waged the war
on terrorism, acknowledged Saturday that after the Sept. Read more
