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Washington Post: “The FBI is embarking on a $1 billion effort to build the world’s largest computer database of peoples’ physical characteristics, a project that would give the government unprecedented abilities to identify individuals in the United States and abroad. Digital images of faces, fingerprints and palm patterns are already flowing into FBI systems in …
Press release: “[December 17, 2007] House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI) sent a letter to Attorney General Michael Mukasey reiterating the Chairman’s request to have a Department of Justice representative testify at Thursday’s hearing on the Applicability of Federal Criminal Laws to the Interrogation of Detainees. Congressional leaders have already criticized the Department’s …
“The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has received a second set of records from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) detailing behind-the-scenes briefings for lawmakers working to make substantial changes to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). EFF requested release of the records under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) earlier this year…Last …
Trafficking in human beings: Internet recruitment. Misuse of the Internet for the recruitment of victims of trafficking in human beings, prepared by Athanassia P. Sykiotou, Lecturer in Criminology, Faculty of Law, Democritus University of Thrace (Greece). Directorate General of Human Rights and Legal Affairs Council of Europe 2007. (150 pages, PDF) The Campaign: Human being …
Follow up to Conyers, House Judiciary Members Question CIA, DOJ on Destroyed Interrogation Tapes, from the New York Times: Inquiry Begins Into Tapes Destruction: “The Justice Department and the Central Intelligence Agencys internal watchdog on Saturday began a joint preliminary inquiry into the spy agencys destruction of hundreds of hours of videotapes showing interrogations of …
Follow up to December 6, 2007 posting, Report: CIA Destroyed Videos of Interrogations, this press release: “Today, House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI) and Reps. Robert Scott, William Delahunt and Jerrold Nadler sent letters to Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Director Gen. Michael Hayden and Attorney General Michael Mukasey requesting details about today’s reports …
A Report of the California Alliance to Combat Trafficking and Slavery (CA ACTS) Task Force Download Human Trafficking in California, Full Report. [Member Roster] “Read Sacramento’s Channel 10’s interview with CVPC Director Nancy Matson regarding this important issue or watch the video.” The CA ACTS Task Force released its Final Report on December 4, 2007, …
New York Times: “The Central Intelligence Agency in 2005 destroyed at least two videotapes documenting the interrogation of two Qaeda operatives in the agencys custody, a step it took in the midst of Congressional and legal scrutiny about its secret detention program, according to current and former government officials…The destruction of the tapes raises questions …
Legislative Text of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Substitution Act of 2007, S. 2402, introduced by Arlen Specter, December 3, 2007. Related postings on FISA
U.S. District Court, Northern District of California, filed November 23. 2007, ACLU v DHS: Proposed Order Granting Defendants Motion to Stay Proceeding Pending New Rulemaking. ACLU press release: “The lawsuit was brought by the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO), the American Civil Liberties Union, the National Immigration Law Center (NILC) …
Pretrial Release of Felony Defendants in State Courts, November 2007: “Presents findings on the pretrial release phase of the criminal justice process using data collected from a representative sample of felony cases filed in the 75 largest U.S. counties in May during even-numbered years from 1990 to 2004. It includes trends on pretrial release rates …
“Liberty (The National Council for Civil Liberties) is one of the UKs leading civil liberties and human rights organisations. Liberty works to promote human rights and protect civil liberties through a combination of test case litigation, lobbying, campaigning and research.” Liberty: Terrorism pre-charge detention – Comparative law study, Jago Russell, Editor, November 2007 (65 pages, …
