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16 hrs ago | The Tennessean

TN representatives complaining about media snooping supported it with their votes, advocates say

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.

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Related Topix: US News, Privacy, Criminal Defense Law, Law, US Federal Bureau of Investigation

17 hrs ago | KPLR-11

Jaco - What Happened To "Freedom Of The Press"

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

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Related Topix: US News

Yesterday | Albany Times Union

Mental test slated for activist leader

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.

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Related Topix: US News

Yesterday | Daily Kos

My Missive To the Beltway Media...

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.

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Related Topix: US News, Journalism

Thu May 23, 2013

Tyler Morning Telegraph

Fourth Amendment getting some love

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

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Related Topix: US News, US Politics, Patrick Leahy, US Senate, Democrat, Republican, Senator Mike Lee, Opinion

Wed May 22, 2013

A-Infos Radio Project

Takes on the World: Jeff Blankfort:-News/Opinions:Israel & Guatemala, D Ross wants war, Segment 1

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)

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Related Topix: US News

OpEdNews

"Our Liberty Cannot Be Guarded but by the Freedom of the Press"

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.

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Related Topix: US News, Law, Employment / Labor Law, Privacy, US Politics, Representative Justin Amash, Republican, US House of Representatives

Tue May 21, 2013

The Nation

'Our Liberty Cannot Be Guarded but by the Freedom of the Press'

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.

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Related Topix: US News, Law, Employment / Labor Law, Privacy, US Politics, Representative Justin Amash, Republican, US House of Representatives

Mon May 20, 2013

OpEdNews

Divide and Conquer the Congress?

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.

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Related Topix: US News, US Military Prisons, Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, Prison, Liberal Political News

Fri May 17, 2013

SFBG Politics Blog

The Ro Khanna party

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

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Related Topix: US News, Gavin Newsom

Thu May 16, 2013

The Atlantic

Five Best Thursday Columns

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

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Related Topix: Tea Party, US News

National Review Online

Cooke: The IRS's Curious Immunity

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)

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Related Topix: US News, Libraries, ACLU

Wed May 15, 2013

The Nation

Secrecy, drones, prisons and kill lists

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.

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Related Topix: US News, George Bush, 2012 Presidential Election, US Politics, Terrorism

Washington Times

Justice Department subpoena of AP phone records unites left, right in opposition to 'Big Brother'

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.

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Related Topix: US News

Tue May 14, 2013

Schneier on Security

Transparency and Accountability

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.

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Related Topix: US News, Criminal Defense Law, Law

Mon May 13, 2013

Examiner.com

Greatest surveiled country on Earth

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.

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Related Topix: Associated Press, New York, US News, Rush Limbaugh

Thu May 09, 2013

The Island Packet

We need to preserve our civil liberties

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

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Related Topix: US News, ACLU, US Politics, Peter King, Republican, US House of Representatives, US Senate, Lindsey Graham

Wed May 08, 2013

The Atlantic

Transparency and Accountability Don't Hurt Security-They're Crucial to It

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.

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Related Topix: US News, Criminal Defense Law, Law

Computing.co.uk

US government will take your data even without the Patriot Act

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.

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Related Topix: US News

Pam's House Blend

Obama On The Verge Of Supporting End Of 4th Amendment On The Internet

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.

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Related Topix: US Federal Bureau of Investigation, US News, Prison