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The FBI illegally collected more than 2,000 telephone records between 2002 and 2006 by claiming the phone calls being made related to possible terrorism emergencies, according to a Washington Post report Tuesday. According to the article, the Department...

A judge in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York on Thursday dismissed a lawsuit challenging amendments to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) that...

Amnesty International USA, et al. v. McConnell, et al., US District Court for the Southern District of New York, August 20, 2009 [dismissing a lawsuit challenging amendments to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) that expand government power to eavesdrop...

Former US Department of Justice Office of Legal Counsel lawyer John Yoo defended warrantless wiretapping in an essay published Thursday by the Wall Street Journal . Yoo was responding...

The Bush administration's warrantless wiretapping program relied on a flawed legal analysis at its inception and produced results of questionable effectiveness, according to an unclassified version of a report released Friday by five government agencies....

Unclassified Report on the President's Surveillance Program, The Office of the Inspectors' General of the US Department of Justice (DOJ), the National Security Agency (NSA), the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the Department of Defense (DOD), and the Office of National...

A federal judge on Wednesday upheld a federal statute that gave immunity to telecom companies from liability associated with assisting the National Security Agency (NSA) with eavesdropping, dismissing 46 lawsuits against the telecom...

John W. Whitehead : "President Obama has been accused of falling short of his campaign promises for a more transparent government. It certainly appears that the Obama administration is borrowing from George W. Bush's playbook,...

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Wednesday that it has limited electronic surveillance conducted by the National Security Agency (NSA) . The annoucement comes after the NSA was found to have exceeded its...

A Swedish legal organization Monday filed a complaint with the European Court of Human Rights , challenging a controversial warrantless wiretapping law passed by the Swedish parliament last month. The...