Patriot Act News

Although they denounced the Obama Administration's recent seizure of reporters' records, some Tennessee members of Congress have supported even more powerful tools for snooping on the news media and other Americans, privacy advocates contend.

There's a reason that the business I'm in is the only occupation specifically mentioned in the US constitution.

A former orthodontist from Columbia County considered an "elder" in the anti-government sovereign citizen movement must undergo a psychological examination while he remains charged with committing several federal tax-related felonies.

In exchange for "access," you exchanged your souls. And in return, you expect us to commiserate with you in your time of need? When the Patriot Act was passed, y'all were on board.

The Fourth Amendment is finally getting some respect. Largely - and distressingly - set aside after Sept.

Blankfort reviews Bush and Obama's attacks on civil liberties, whistleblowers, press, and support for Patriot Act; exposes Israel's predominant role in supplying arms for Guatemalan genocide, criticizing Guatemalan News & Info Bureau and Nicaragua and El Salvador solidarity groups for hiding Israeli involvement in 80s; quotes WINEP's Dennis Ross ... (more)

Democrats and Republicans working together in Washington to address abuses of basic liberties? Bipartisan responses to the challenges that arise in the gray area where balances are struck between constitutional guarantees and national security demands? Impossible.

Democrats and Republicans working together in Washington to address abuses of basic liberties? Bipartisan responses to the challenges that arise in the grey area where balances are struck between Constitutional guarantees and national security demands? Impossible.

Every time the word " bipartisan " makes it to print the world suffers. When the two rival political syndicates line up in a row in favor of something, it's because their masters feel so strongly about the issue that all other concerns are bulldozed away.

When Ro Khanna, a young, energetic intellectual property lawyer, ran for Congress against Tom Lantos, he was the candidate of the progressives.

The duo from the Center for Responsive Politics assess the long-term impact of the improper audits conducted by IRS personnel on conservative groups.

Back then, government overreach was distinctly uncouth. "If the events of September 11, 2001, have proven anything," comedian Jon Stewart lamented, "it's that the terrorists can attack us, but they can't take away what makes us American - our freedom, our liberty, our civil rights." He paused: "Only Attorney General John Ashcroft can do that." ... (more)

On Monday, the Associated Press revealed that the Department of Justice used subpoenas to obtain phone records of its editors and reporters from April and May 2012.

The revelation that the U.S. government used secret subpoenas to pry into Associated Press reporters' phone records triggered two contradictory reactions in the political world.

As part of the fallout of the Boston bombings, we're probably going to get some new laws that give the FBI additional investigative powers.

On the same day that the White House was trying to quell firestorms over the IRS and Benghazi, word broke that the Justice Department secretly obtained two months of telephone records on 20 lines used by reporters and editors of the Associated Press from its offices in New York, D-C and Hartford, CT.

Let's not allow the tragic bombings in Boston to become an excuse to gut our civil liberties once again.

As part of the fallout of the Boston bombings, we're probably going to get some new laws that give the FBI additional investigative powers.

Co-founder and CEO of systems integrator Cloudreach Pontus Noren has warned firms that the US government is capable of taking data it deems important to its security, without needing to rely on the Patriot Act.

The FBI has long been searching for a way to bypass the Fourth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution which they have claimed makes their job difficult, increasingly so in the information age.