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FBI taps cell phone mic as eavesdropping tool - CNET News.com: Jul 21, 12:31am 0 review news, liberties-rights, privacy, technology
http://news.cnet.com/FBI-taps-cell-phone-mic-as-eavesdropping-tool/2100-1029_...

The Center for Public Integrity: Jul 11, 2:24am 0 review ethics, government, liberties-rights
http://dev.publicintegrity.org/

Help Us Support the Fisa Amendment | Advolabs Click to Call ~ Advomatic Laborato…: Jul 8, 10:12am 1 review activism, law, politics, news, liberties-rights
http://tools.advomatic.com/7/fisa; This week the Senate will be voting on FISA reform legislation that includes retroactive immunity for telecommunications companies. Senators Dodd and Feingold have been fighting to stop retroactive immunity - now they need your help. Call your Senator and ask that they vote against any legislation that includes retroactive immunity for telecoms. It's time to see the Senate stand up for the rule of law. Leadership is demonstrated through action. Ask your Senator to stand for liberty and the law, and vote in favor of the Dodd-Feingold-Leahy Amendment.

Netroots: What Did You Expect from Obama? - Six Hours A Week: Adventures of …: Jul 7, 11:54pm 3 reviews activism, law, politics, liberties-rights, election
http://www.sixhoursaweek.com/2008/07/netroots-what-did-you-expect-f.html; From the page: "We've already been to a place called Hope. Young voters don't know what it's like to have a preternatural politician grab their hearts with rhetoric and then become a whopping, co-opted, double talking disappointment. Are our memories so short? Do we really want to do that again and lead another generation to the kind of apathy that allowed the current administration to enter the White House? Let's be honest. An Obama administration will mean a world of difference no matter what. But he's a politician. We are the change agents. We can't just walk to a voting booth, dimple a chad, and expect America to be a safer, fairer, more just place. We have to change. We have to get out of our comfort zones, and remain active, engaged citizens. "

Bush: Telecom Immunity More Important Than Surveillance Powers | Electronic Fron…: Jul 7, 11:53pm 3 reviews politics, news, liberties-rights, privacy, technology
http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2008/07/bush-telecom-immunity-more-important-the...; From the page: "Even though the White House "strongly support[s]" the FISA bill, and contends it is necessary to provide "our intelligence professionals the tools they need to keep our Nation safe," and urges the Senate "to act as soon as it returns from its recess," the Bush Administration is willing to veto the legislation and forgo these tools unless the telecom immunity is given effect immediately."

Netroots Activists Mad at Obama for Spy Bill Flip-Flop | Threat Level from Wired…: Jul 7, 10:20pm 5 reviews politics, liberties-rights, technology
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/07/netroots-activi.html; I have been skeptical of Obama's "Change" rhetoric, and was disappointed that MoveOn didn't demand more of him for an endorsement.

The New York Times & Log In: Jul 3, 1:50pm 2 reviews government, law, politics, liberties-rights, patriotism
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/30/opinion/29stone.html; AS we approach July 4, it is worth reminding ourselves of America's foundational idea. This country is set apart from the rest of the world because of its unparalleled commitment to personal freedom and the dignity of the individual. It is a vision captured in the guarantee of freedom of speech, freedom of religion, due process of law, equal protection under the law and freedom from unreasonable search and seizure and cruel and unusual punishment. We do not always live up to these aspirations. Over time, we have embarrassed ourselves and tarnished our image as a country that is respectful of civil liberties. We have persecuted dissenters, interned the innocent, suspended habeas corpus, invaded reasonable expectations of privacy. We have even engaged in torture. What, then, can we do to see to it that we more reliably honor our core values? Here's a start. Presidents have a wide range of official advisers. There is a secretary of defense, a secretary of labor, a national security adviser, to name just a few. The next president should create a new executive branch position: a civil liberties adviser. Within the highest councils of every administration there should be a respected public official whose charge it is to defend our civil liberties against all comers.

Civil liberties groups sue for info on cell phone lojacking: Jul 3, 1:41pm 2 reviews cell-phones, news, liberties-rights, privacy, technology
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080703-civil-liberties-groups-sue-for-...; We expect our cell phones to do a lot these days: make calls, check e-mail, take photographs, play music, surf Web sites, let the government track your every move. But civil liberties groups have a few questions about that last feature, and have filed a lawsuit seeking to force the Department of Justice to respond to a Freedom of Information Act Request submitted late last year, seeking documents about the practice of using mobile phones as homing beacons.

The Associated Press: Civil liberties group criticizes new FBI authority: Jul 3, 1:39pm 1 review law, news, liberties-rights
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gobMutXAeRwFpKArmH62mutdcLRAD91LS3DG0; From the page: "Tentative Justice Department guidelines, to be released later this summer, would let agents investigate people whose backgrounds (and potentially their race or ethnicity) match the traits of terrorists. Such profiling faintly echoes the FBI's now-defunct COINTELPRO, an operation under Director J. Edgar Hoover in the 1950s and 1960s to monitor and disrupt groups with communist and socialist ties. Before it was shut down in 1971, the domestic spying operation (formally known as Counterintelligence Programs) had expanded to include civil rights groups, anti-war activists, the Ku Klux Klan, state legislators and journalists."