Archive - Jun 13, 2008

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Guest Blogger: Melissa Ngo, Privacy Lives

June 13, 2008 - 1:16pm

UK Extends No-Charge Detention Time, Again

June 13th, 2008<!-- by privacy-->

The UK House of Commons narrowly passed (315 to 306) Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s proposal to extend the period terrorism suspects could be held without charges to 42

Secret Spy Court Repeatedly Questions FBI Wiretap Network

June 13, 2008 - 9:33am
By Ryan Singel EmailJune 11, 2008 | 3:13:54 PMCategories: Surveillance  

Does the FBI track cellphone users' physical movements without a warrant?

Supreme Court restores habeas corpus, strikes down key part of Military Commissions Act by Glenn Greenwald

June 13, 2008 - 9:23am

In a major rebuke to the Bush administration's theories of presidential power -- and in an equally stinging rebuke to the bipartisan political class which has supported the Bush detention policies -- the U.S. Supreme Court today, in a 5-4 decision (.pdf), declared Section 7 of the Military Commissions Act of 2006 unconstitutional.