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The Wire: Snipped or Broadened?new

Is Bush really reversing domestic phone-spying course? Let's just say: don't dial up al-Qaeda just yet.
San Antonio Current  |  Keli Dailey  |  02-07-2007  |  Civil Liberties

Spying on Big Brothernew

Now you can find out if you're being surveilled by the FBI.
The Village Voice  |  Nat Hentoff  |  12-08-2006  |  Civil Liberties

Terror-fying The Greensnew

Did investigators use post-9/11 warrantless wiretaps to bust accused eco-saboteurs?
Willamette Week  |  Angela Valdez  |  08-30-2006  |  Civil Liberties

Warranted Warrantsnew

Illegal wiretapping didn't "save the day" in England and it won't save democracy, either.
San Antonio Current  |  Gilbert Garcia  |  08-23-2006  |  Civil Liberties

Hung Upnew

Facing a lawsuit and consumer questions about its role in the NSA spying program, AT&T isn't taking any calls.
San Antonio Current  |  Gilbert Garcia  |  05-24-2006  |  Civil Liberties

Grapevine Justicenew

As we learn more and more about the scope and extent of the National Security Agency's warrantless wiretapping program, we're also learning how difficult it will be to challenge such domestic espionage in court.
Boston Phoenix  |  Mike Miliard  |  05-19-2006  |  Civil Liberties

Feel a Chill?new

New York City Police on filming protests: No harm, no foul.
The Village Voice  |  Jarrett Murphy  |  04-05-2006  |  Civil Liberties

An Unwanted Visitnew

A college professor in California believes he's being harassed by the FBI's terror unit because of his coursework on Venezuela.
Los Angeles CityBeat  |  Dan Abendschein  |  03-24-2006  |  Civil Liberties

GOP vs. Feingold

Sens. Snowe and Hagel join the Bush cover-up, while Senator Feingold calls for censure, and some seek legal rulings that Bush's secret spying was illegal and unconstitutional.
Random Lengths News  |  Paul Rosenberg  |  03-16-2006  |  Civil Liberties

What We Don't Knownew

It's hard to tell just how pervasive the Bush administration's spying program is -- the documents, like so many others, are secret.
San Francisco Bay Guardian  |  A. C. Thompson, Steven T. Jones and G.W. Schulz  |  03-08-2006  |  Civil Liberties

Caller IDnew

Sprint helps George W. Bush and his spies.
The Pitch  |  C.J. Janovy  |  02-21-2006  |  Civil Liberties

Red State, Meet Police Statenew

Is Homeland Security's harrassment of a federal employee for the stickers on his car a mistake, a new rule or part of a trend of the First Amendment being bullied out of existence?
Boise Weekly  |  Nicholas Collias  |  02-15-2006  |  Civil Liberties

The War on Privacynew

Rumsfeld warns that the enemy can succeed in changing our way of life, but it already has.
The Village Voice  |  Nat Hentoff  |  02-15-2006  |  Civil Liberties

Big Brother is Watchingnew

A letter printed in the Alibi leads to the investigation of local VA nurse Laura Berg for "sedition."
Weekly Alibi  |  Steven Robert Allen  |  02-10-2006  |  Civil Liberties

Bush’s Real Motivenew

The president's persistent support of the National Security Agency's warrantless eavesdropping program represents much more than a stubborn presidential effort to catch terrorists.
Boston Phoenix  |  Harvey Silverglate  |  02-09-2006  |  Civil Liberties

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