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AG Mukasey Sics Justice Probers on Wiretap Program

Surprise investigation signals new independence from White house

Nov 14, 07 4:00 AM CST
(Newser) - New Attorney General Michael Mukasey has named the Justice Department 's first investigative target: the Justice Department. Mukasey has reopened an internal probe of the role played by the agency's own attorneys in the controversial post-911warrantless wiretap program, reports the Wall Street Journal. The move is a key signal... More »

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Department of Justice • wiretap • Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act • Michael Mukasey • warrantless wiretapping • Office of Professional Responsibility • H. Marshall Jarrett • government spying

Gonzales Could Face Charges

DOJ report may recommend criminal prosecution for former AG

Oct 26, 07 7:08 PM CDT
(Newser) - Alberto Gonzales might soon find himself on an unlikely side of the law if a pending DOJ report recommends criminal charges against the former AG for lying under oath. Pending prosecution may even explain Gonzales' unexpected departure, Slate’s Dahlia Lithwick speculates. Now he’s hired a criminal-defense attorney and... More »

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Alberto Gonzales • Department of Justice • prosecutor • perjury • US attorney firings • warrantless wiretapping

Senate Brokers Truce With Bush on Domestic Spying

Includes immunity for phone companies

Oct 18, 07 4:07 AM CDT
(Newser) - Senate Democrats and Republicans have brokered a deal on legislation regarding the White House domestic spying and wiretapping program—including a highly controversial grant of immunity to telecommunication companies that co-operated with warrantless wiretaps. The deal marks a victory for the White House because Democrats had to kill a House... More »

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Nancy Pelosi • CIA • FBI • Hamas • White House • House Judiciary Committee • American Civil Liberties Union • Arlen Specter • Patrick Leahy • Senate Intelligence Committee • Mike McConnell • warrantless wiretapping • domestic spying • John D. Rockefeller • Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court • Louie Gohmert • domestic wiretapping • al-Qaeda

Secret Evidence Isn't Just for Gitmo Anymore

Slate's Lithwick says
combatant turn is trouble for us all

Oct 17, 07 3:45 PM CDT
(Newser) - The Department of Justice's stated reason for a major evidence no-show is that it can’t “be reasonably recompiled," Slate’s Dahlia Lithwick writes, a potentially dangerous precedent. Justice is thinking about redoing some military tribunals rather than present “not readily available” evidence used to brand enemy... More »

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Department of Justice • enemy combatants • Guantanamo Bay • warrantless wiretapping

Clinton Foes
to Hype '92 Phone Tap

Hillary said to have listened in on talk
of Bill mistress

Oct 16, 07 4:05 PM CDT
(Newser) - GOP rivals have found their latest Clinton attack material, a report the Dem frontrunner listened to an illegal tape of a cellphone conversation in 1992—and they're asking how that squares with her stance on government surveillance. A book released in June alleges Hillary heard opponents discussing a Bill mistress,... More »

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Hillary Clinton • GOP • terrorist • warrantless wiretapping • Protect Act

Ex-Qwest CEO Claims Spy Effort Began Before 9/11

Says NSA sought phone records months earlier

Oct 13, 07 9:34 AM CDT
(Newser) - Joseph Nacchio, the former CEO of Qwest Communications, claims that the National Security Agency asked his company in February, 2001, to participate in a potentially illegal surveillance program—and when he declined, punished the company by dropping a contract worth hundreds of millions of dollars, reports the Washington Post. The... More »

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Qwest • Joseph Nacchio • insider trading • National Security Agency • warrantless wiretapping

Dems Will Cave on Wiretaps

Despite earlier opposition, pols fear being labeled soft on terrorism

Oct 9, 07 7:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - Despite having vowed to rein in the administration on wiretapping without warrants, congressional Democrats are preparing to approve bills which would maintain for several years the surveillance authority legalized this summer by the Protect America Act, the New York Times reports. Dems fear that opposing the legislation will label them... More »

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Nancy Pelosi • National Security Agency • warrantless wiretapping

Columbia Prez Lays Into Ahmadinejad

Head of state answers ‘unfriendly’ intro with contentious talk

Sep 24, 07 3:10 PM CDT
(Newser) - Mahmoud Ahmadinejad appeared today at Columbia University, where the school’s president called the Iranian president “a petty and cruel dictator” and excoriated him for his human rights rap sheet, Holocaust denial—which Lee Bollinger called "simply ridiculous"—and nuclear ambitions. The visitor smiled as Bollinger spoke,... More »

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Columbia University • Mahmoud Ahmadinejad • Holocaust • warrantless wiretapping • Lee Bollinger • Palestinian people • atom bomb

Bush Presses Congress for Snooping Law

Says current law should be expanded and
made permanent

Sep 19, 07 9:26 PM CDT
(Newser) - Bush pressed lawmakers for extra snooping rights today, the AP reports. Yet many Dems already regret the current law, which allows Feds to spy on some Americans without a warrant. One senator says that "the law did provide authority for collection, but it did not include sufficient protections for... More »

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Congress • surveillance • warrantless wiretapping • Protect America Act • George W. Bush

Mukasey Faces Senate Hurdle

Judiciary Committee is demanding White House documents

Sep 18, 07 4:10 AM CDT
(Newser) - The confirmation of former federal judge Michael Mukasey as attorney general may not be the slam dunk the White House expects it to be. Senate Democrats have warned that the Judiciary Committee will delay confirmation unless the administration turns over documents the panel is seeking in several investigations, reports the... More »

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Bush administration • Alberto Gonzales • Attorney General • White House • Michael Mukasey • warrantless wiretapping

FBI Data Requests Go Beyond Terror Suspects

Companies asked to turn over info on 'community of interest'

Sep 8, 07 5:44 PM CDT
(Newser) - US terror suspects are drawing friends and colleagues into the net, the New York Times reports. FBI docs show that probes have sought info on people who suspects call or email the most. Phone companies already keep such data on hand for marketing and fraud protection, one expert says. Such... More »

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FBI • surveillance • wiretap • Terrorist Surveillance Program • warrantless wiretapping

Justice Dept. Will Investigate Whether Gonzales Lied

US attorney firings probe will expand

Aug 31, 07 10:56 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Justice Department will investigate whether Alberto Gonzales gave misleading testimony to Congress, including whether he lied about the NSA's warrantless wiretapping program and the US attorney firings. Inspector General Glenn Fine has alerted Congress to an expanded internal probe into the actions of the lame-luck AG, the Washington Post ... More »

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Alberto Gonzales • Department of Justice • investigation • Monica Goodling • Attorney General • US attorney firings • Glenn Fine • warrantless wiretapping

Alberto Gonzales Resigns

Attorney general steps down after months of criticism over politicized Justice Department

Aug 27, 07 7:42 AM CDT
(Newser) - Alberto Gonzales has resigned, the White House told CNN today, after months of calls for his replacement—and even impeachment—from lawmakers on both sides of the aisle worried that the Justice Department was becoming overly politicized. The AG told President Bush of his intention to step down Friday, following... More »

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Bush administration • Alberto Gonzales • Department of Justice • Karl Rove • Attorney General • White House • impeachment • resignation • US attorney firings • warrantless wiretapping

Cheney Admits He Has Secret Wiretap Documents

But he'll resist Senate subpoena to see them

Aug 20, 07 11:29 PM CDT
(Newser) - Vice President Dick Cheney will resist efforts by Congress to force him to produce dozens of documents relating to a warrantless wiretapping program conducted by the National Security Agency, the Washington Post reports. Cheney's counsel acknowledged for the first time yesterday that the vice president's office has documents relating to... More »

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Congress • Dick Cheney • Senate Judiciary Committee • Patrick Leahy • subpoena • National Security Agency • wiretap • Shannen W. Coffin • warrantless wiretapping

Dems Afraid They've Let in Big Brother

New law could give White House broad spying powers

Aug 18, 07 6:59 PM CDT
(Newser) - Americans who phone friends or shoot emails overseas could have business records snatched up or be subject to searches whenever Washington wants, the Dems worry – after passing new surveillance powers that they may not have fully understood. Yet the White House swears that “the intent here was pure,... More »

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Bush administration • Congress • White House • homeland security • surveillance • warrantless wiretapping

FBI Chief Refutes Gonzales

Mueller's notes call hospitalized Ashcroft 'barely articulate'

Aug 17, 07 12:11 PM CDT
(Newser) - Newly released notes taken by the FBI director in 2004 contradict Alberto Gonzales' Senate testimony about the internal conflict over the warrantless wiretapping program. Robert Mueller's heavily redacted notes refer to hospitalized AG John Ashcroft as "feeble" and "barely articulate," the Washington Post reports—a far cry... More »

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Alberto Gonzales • Department of Justice • FBI • John Ashcroft • James Comey • Robert Mueller • NSA • warrantless wiretapping

Spy Suit Keeps Lawyer in Dark

Government's secrecy guidelines create obstacle course

Aug 15, 07 2:28 PM CDT
(Newser) - An attorney for an Islamic charity that's suing the government over  what they claim was illegal wiretapping has found himself in quite the Kafka-esque predicament. Responding to a federal filing that he wasn't allowed to read, John Eisenberg says he was made  to write out his entire legal brief in... More »

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California • terrorism • charity • Jon Eisenberg • Al Haramain • warrantless wiretapping

Congress Spooked Into Passing Broad Spying Law

How a weak president scored a surprising win

Aug 11, 07 1:01 PM CDT
(Newser) - It was a closed-door briefing last month, in which lawmakers were told of a stunning drop in intelligence, that suddenly broke the Democratic opposition to a new spying bill passed last week, the New York Times reports. The Times does a post mortem on the 11th hour passage of... More »

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Democratic Congress • spy • wiretap • eavesdrop • foreign intelligence • warrantless wiretapping

Senate OKs Spying Program

Dems bow to White House on warrantless wiretapping bill, will revisit in 6 months

Aug 4, 07 8:12 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Senate voted last night to temporarily extend the government's controversial surveillance program, the Washington Post reports. The contentious 60-28 vote, a  concession to the White House by Democrats, will allow for the continued interception of electronic communication between Americans and overseas parties without  a court order. The measures will... More »

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Senate • Joe Lieberman • NSA • surveillance • wiretap • warrantless wiretapping • George W. Bush

Rove Won't Testify, Citing Privilege

Counsel orders adviser to keep mum; Gonzales stands pat on testimony

Aug 2, 07 6:24 AM CDT
(Newser) - The White House has ordered Karl Rove to keep quiet—despite a subpoena by congressional Dems probing the US Attorney firings. In a political fait accompli, counsel Fred Fielding told the Senate Judiciary Committee that the adviser is "immune from compelled congressional testimony" about White House machinations. More »

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Alberto Gonzales • Department of Justice • Karl Rove • investigation • Attorney General • Senate Judiciary Committee • White House • executive privilege • National Security Agency • warrantless wiretapping

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