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Executive Order extends FISA powers to FBI Deputy Director

October 14, 2008 - 5:41pm

Executive Order: Further Amendments to Executive Orders 12139 and 12949 in Light of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 Amendments Act of 2008

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2008/10/20081007-7.html

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including sections 104 and 303 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 (50 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.), as amended by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 Amendments Act of 2008 (Public Law 110-261), it is hereby ordered as follows:

Will Senate actually investigate NSA spying on Americans?

October 12, 2008 - 2:34pm

by Declan McCullagh

The U.S. Senate is investigating allegations by two National Security Agency whistleblowers who have described widespread monitoring of innocuous telephone conversations by the Bush administration's clandestine program.

Norfolk police step on it again on Fourth Amendment privacy

October 7, 2008 - 3:06pm

From our friends at Fairfax County Privacy Council:

Norfolk police step on it again on Fourth Amendment privacy
In an interesting article at http://hamptonroads.com/2008/10/norfolk-police-clashes-fires-gun-rights-... the Norfolk police defend an apparent custom and practice to seize people not suspected of any crime in violation of the Fourth Amendment merely because somebody calls 911 and “requests service.”

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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