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• Rep. Sensenbrenner slams FISC, NSA for widespread surveillance - 12 Jun 2013
  posted in Civil Liberties & Columns & Featured

  The author of the 2001 Patriot Act says that the Obama Administration’s excusing of the NSA’s giant surveillance sweep is “a bunch of bunk.” Speaking with Laura Ingraham on her radio show Wednesday, Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner claims that the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court has gone beyond the powers they were given under the post-9/11 law. [...]

• Sen. Paul discusses NSA with Hannity - 11 Jun 2013
  posted in Civil Liberties & Featured Videos & Videos

  Tell Congress: Restore our Fourth Amendment protections! Sign the petition.

• BHO says NSA not listening to phone calls - 07 Jun 2013
  posted in Big Gov & Featured Videos & Privacy & Property & Surveillance & Terrorism

  “When it comes to telephone calls, nobody is listening to your telephone calls. That’s not what this program is about.” – Barack Obama, June 7. Tell Congress: Restore our Fourth Amendment protections! Sign the petition!

• NSA’s Verizon surveillance: how the White House tramples our constitution - 07 Jun 2013
  posted in Civil Liberties & Columns & Privacy & Surveillance & Terrorism & The Constitution

  In December 2007, then-Senator Barack Obama joined then-Senator Chris Dodd in threatening to filibuster the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (Fisa). Senator Obama opposed provisions granting retroactive immunity to telecommunications companies that shared private client information with the government. His office released a statement: “Granting such immunity undermines the constitutional protections Americans trust the Congress to [...]

• Reid says GO8 Attack on Freedom an ‘Easy’ Pass - 29 May 2013
  posted in Big Gov & Immigration & Politics & Govt & Surveillance & Terrorism & The Constitution & Tyranny

  Senate Leader Harry Reid says that getting votes for the Gang of Eight’s immigration reform will be “easy.” “I think we have 60 votes,” the Nevada Senator told the Las Vegas Sun.  “Remember, we start out at 55 Democrats. I think the most I’ll lose is two or three. Let’s say I wind up with [...]

• Roaches, Mosquitoes, and Birds: The Coming Micro-Drone Revolution - 16 Apr 2013
  posted in Columns & Privacy & Surveillance & Tech

  America will never be a “no drone zone.” That must be acknowledged from the outset. There is too much money to be made on drones, for one, and too many special interest groups—from the defense sector to law enforcement to the so-called “research” groups that are in it for purely “academic” reasons—who have a vested [...]

• “Privacy is Dead, Get Over It” - 03 Apr 2013
  posted in Columns & Privacy

  I will admit it, I am addicted to TV.  More than ten shows are taped each week, just to keep me abreast of the latest Ewing intrigue, Psych, Mentalist and Castle comedy dramas, along with NCIS, NCIS LA and all forms of Law and Order.  That is just to start! TNT has a new show, [...]

• Americans fear medical privacy lost with Obamacare: Privacy group - 29 Mar 2013
  posted in Medicine & Privacy

  The challenges of ensuring personal control over health information in the face of rapid global deployment of healthcare IT and online technologies will be addressed at the third International Summit on the Future of Health Privacy. The gathering will again take place at Georgetown Law Center in Washington, on June 5-6, 2013, co-hosted by Patient Privacy [...]

• U.S. to let spy agencies scour Americans’ finances - 13 Mar 2013
  posted in Privacy & Property & Terrorism

  The Obama administration is drawing up plans to give all U.S. spy agencies full access to a massive database that contains financial data on American citizens and others who bank in the country, according to a Treasury Department document seen by Reuters. The proposed plan represents a major step by U.S. intelligence agencies to spot [...]

• Obama drones creating fear among Americans - 07 Feb 2013
  posted in Big Gov & Civil Liberties & Columns & Privacy

  The Department of Justice memo, titled “Lawfulness of a Lethal Operation Directed Against a U.S. Citizen who is a Senior Operation Leader of al-Qaeda or An Associated Force,” that was obtained by the Fox News Channel’s chief national security correspondent Catherine Herridge, defines drone attacks on U.S. citizens who were involved in violent attacks as [...]