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Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Property Rights, hearing – Responding to The Inspector General’s Findings of Improper Use of National Security Letters by the FBI, April 11, 2007. Via American Library Association Washington Office Newsline: “George Christian, Executive Director of the Library Connection and former plaintiff in John Doe v. Gonzales, …
Follow up to postings on investigations into FBI use of National Security Letters, this press release: “The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has asked a judge to issue an emergency order requiring the FBI to immediately release agency records about its abuse of National Security Letters (NSLs) to collect Americans’ personal information. The Department of Justice …
Politicizing National Security, by Aziz Huq, April 4, 2007: “Aziz Huq directs the Liberty and National Security Project at the Brennan Center for Justice. He is co-author of Unchecked and Unbalanced: Presidential Power in Times of Terror, and recipient of a 2006 Carnegie Scholars Fellowship.” Mr. Huq focuses on three recent issues to highlight his …
National Security Letters Hearing, March 28, 2007. Panel 1: Witnesses – The Honorable Glen A. Fine, Inspector General, Department of Justice – Mr. John Pistole, Deputy Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation – The Honorable Kenneth L. Wainstein, Assistant Attorney General, National Security Division, Department of Justice Panel 2: Witnesses – Prof. Viet Dinh, Georgetown University …
Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, Oversight of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, March 28, 2007 Statement of Robert S. Mueller, III Director Federal Bureau of Investigation: “Last week, the Committee heard testimony from Glenn Fine, the Inspector General of the Department of Justice regarding a recent report issued by his office on the FBI’s use of …
The National Counterintelligence Strategy of the United States, March 27, 2007. “The National Counterintelligence Strategy of the United States elaborates the fundamental responsibility for US intelligence to warn of and help prevent terrorist attacks the homeland, engage other asymmetric threats, and provide reliable intelligence on traditional and enduring strategic issues.”
Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties Oversight Hearing on the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice, Changing Tides: Exploring the Current State of Civil Rights Enforcement within the Department of Justice By Direction of the Chairman. Documents and Links: Citizens’ Commission on Civil Rights – The Erosion of Rights: Declining …
ACLU v Gonzales [originally ACLU v. Reno, then ACLU v. Ashcroft], Final Adjudication on the constitutionality of the Child Online Protection Act, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, March 22, 2007 (84 pages, PDF) Alternate link to the PDF decision, ACLU v. Gonzales, 22 March 2007, Eastern District of Pennsylvania, Final Order, …
Report from NYUs Brennan Center Finds Ohio Campaign Finance Laws among the Worst in the Midwest, March 19, 2007: “Today, the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law joined with Ohio Citizen Action to release a new report finding that Ohios campaign finance system is broken and badly in need of reform. The …
Press release: “Today, House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI) sent a letter to U.S. Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales demanding he answer allegations that he may have advised the President to shut down an Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) inquiry into the Administration’s domestic wiretapping surveillance program because of his role in the …
Neil M. Richards & Daniel J. Solove, Privacys Other Path: Recovering the Law of Confidentiality, 96 Georgetown Law Journal __ (forthcoming 2007) “The article examines a puzzling and fascinating issue in the development of privacy law. According to the conventional wisdom, Samuel Warren and Louis Brandeis created the right to privacy in their 1890 article. …
Follow-up to March 8, 2007 posting, DOJ OIG Report Documents FBI Underreporting Use of National Security Letter, this from the ACLU: “Claims that the FBIs reported Patriot Act abuses were the “unintentional” result of outmoded computer systems and human error are not credible, the American Civil Liberties Union said today, citing evidence that agents contracted …
