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In anticipation of US Senate Judiciary Committee hearings next month, Democratic Senators Edward Kennedy (D-MA) and Patrick Leahy (D-VT) introduced a proposed Senate resolution Friday, criticizing the...

US Vice President Dick Cheney on Thursday defended the Bush administration's authorization of domestic surveillance in the weeks following Sept. 11, saying the program is a crucial tool in monitoring terrorist organizations. In a...

The US Justice Department Thursday released a 42-page white paper laying out a legal basis for the domestic surveillance program run by the National Security Agency...

US Senate Judiciary Committee ranking Democrat Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) announced during a speech at the Georgetown University Law Center Thursday that he intends to vote against the nomination of Samuel Alito to...

In response to mounting criticism of the Bush administration's warrantless domestic surveillance program , White House spokesman Scott McClellan on Tuesday took time during his daily press briefing to react to the two lawsuits filed...

Center for Constitutional Rights et al. v. George W. Bush et al., United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, January 17, 2006 [complaint alleging that privileged attorney-client communications were intercepted by the National Security Agency and...

ACLU v. National Security Agency, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, January 17, 2006 [complaint seeking a declaration that the NSA warrantless wiretaps program is unconstitutional under the First and Fourth Amendments, and seeking a permanent...

In the months following Sept. 11, the National Security Agency provided a "flood" of surveillance information to the FBI, most of which proved to be worthless and a waste of FBI resources, and which...

In a scathing and fiery speech in Washington Monday on eavesdropping and excesses of executive power, former Vice-President and 2000 Democratic Party nominee Al Gore declared that the US Constitution was in "grave danger" and...

US Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Sen. Arlen Specter (R-PA) Sunday promised a thorough congressional probe into President Bush's domestic surveillance program . Specter denied that the President was given a "blank check" to conduct any...