Warrantless Wiretapping

Let's say for sake of discussion that The Reverend was first suspected, then accused, of robbing ATM machines with the assistance of local cellphone companies. The cellphone companies would send specific microwave packets of data to my cellphone while I was in the proximity of ATM machines thus disabling the machines security. In my purely [...]

First came the Orwellian named Patriot Act in 2001 with it's FBI National Security Letters and library reading list surveillance, fully equipped with a librarian gag order. It was passed in 45 days after 9-11 without being read by most, perhaps all, Congressional members. Complaints of governmental abuse of privacy, as was expected, multiplied. Then [...]

It all started with ABC News on July 1st… A secret U.S. law enforcement report, prepared for the Department of Homeland Security, warns that al Qaeda is planning a terror "spectacular" this summer, according to a senior official with access to the document.Link Then Homeland Security Chief Michael Chertoff's terrible case of indigestion "gut feeling" [...]

Tomorrow's Bush radio address includes the following….. "Today we face sophisticated terrorists who use disposable cell phones and the Internet to communicate with each other, recruit operatives, and plan attacks on our country. Technologies like these were not available when FISA was passed nearly 30 years ago, and FISA has not kept up with new [...]