"War on Terror"

Project Vigilant and the government/corporate destruction of privacy BY GLENN GREENWALD

August 20, 2010 - 12:56pm

Forbes' technology writer Andy Greenberg reports that at the Defcon Security Conference yesterday, an individual named Chet Uber appeared with revelations about the case of accused WikiLeaks leaker Bradley Manning and government informant Adrian Lamo. These revelations are both remarkable in their own right and, more important, highlight some extremely significant, under-examined developments unrelated to that case. This is a somewhat complex story and it raises even more complex issues, but it is extremely worthwhile to examine.

Aaron Titus Testimony: Terrorist Watch List and Second Amendment Rights (Video- 4th panelist)

May 7, 2010 - 1:10pm

Hearings

 

Terrorists and Guns: The Nature of the Threat and Proposed Reforms

Wednesday, May 5, 2010
10:00 AM
Dirksen Senate Office Building, room 342

EFF receives documentation of hundreds of possibly illegal Pentagon activities

March 2, 2010 - 6:23pm

Our vigilant partners at the Electronic Frontier Foundation have forced hundreds of documents from the Pentagon concerning spying on U.S. persons.  What follows is the full story from EFF's website:
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The Department of Defense has released more than 800 heavily-redacted pages of intelligence oversight reports, detailing activities that its Inspector General has “reason to believe are unlawful.” The reports are the latest in an ongoing document release by more than a half-dozen intelligence agencies in response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit filed by EFF in July 2009.

Liberty Coalition, others urge Obama to activate Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board

March 2, 2010 - 5:12pm

March 1, 2010

President Barack Obama
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Ave. NW
Washington, DC 20500

Dear Mr. President:

In November 2009, many of the undersigned organizations wrote to you to express our concern over the lack of nominations to the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB). We write again, with increased urgency, to encourage you to appoint individuals immediately.

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