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House Judiciary Committee, Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security – Oversight Hearing on the Implementation of the USA PATRIOT Act: Sections 201, 202, 223 of the Act that Address Criminal Wiretaps, and Section 213 of the Act that Addresses Delayed Notice, May 3, 2005. Statement by Chairman Coble Statements of Michael Sullivan, United States …
Press release: “U.S. Representative Tom Udall, D-N.M., Thursday became a founding member of the tri-partisan Patriot Act Reform Caucus. Passed weeks after the September 11 attacks, the sweeping anti-terrorism law has increasingly come under criticism from the left and the right. The law included 16 provisions that expire at the end of 2005. Other members …
From the Administrative Office of the United States Courts, April 28, 2005: 2004 Wiretap Report (For the Period January 1 Through December 31, 2004) Press release: “A total of 1,710 applications for wiretaps of wire, oral or electronic communications were authorized by federal and state judges in 2004, an increase of 19 percent over 2003.”
Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security, Oversight Hearing on the Implementation of the USA PATRIOT Act: Foreign Surveillance Intelligence Act (FISA). Part II, April 28, 2005. Witness testimony: Kenneth L. Wainstein, Interim U.S. Attorney, District of Columbia; Robert S. Khuzami, Former Assistant U.S. Attorney, Southern District of New York. 4/28/2005 – Sensenbrenner Statement Regarding …
Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security – Oversight Hearing on the Implementation of the USA PATRIOT Act: Sections of the Act that Address–Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). (Part 1) Section 204: Clarification of Intelligence Exceptions from Limitations on Interception & Disclosure of Wire, Oral & Electronic Communications; Section 207: Duration of FISA Surveillance of …
Reader’s Block: Internet Censorship in Rhode Island Public Libraries, A Report prepared by the Rhode Island Affiliate, American Civil Liberties Union, April 2005. “For eight years, the ACLU in Rhode Island has been studying public library response in the state to the introduction of the Internet as an information tool. On one level, it is …
Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Hearing on the USA PATRIOT Act, April 19, 2005. Links to testimony.
PATRIOT Act Oversight Hearing on Section 203 (b) and (d) of the USA-PATRIOT, Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security Tuesday, April 19, 2005: Chairman’s Opening Statement: “As part of the USA PATRIOT Act, Congress included a sunset provision on certain new authorities in the Act. Two of these provisions, sections 203(b) and 203(d), …
The Multistate Anti-TeRrorism Information EXchange (MATRIX), “a pilot effort to increase and enhance the exchange of sensitive terrorism and other criminal activity information between local, state, and federal law enforcement agencies,” has been cancelled. From the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, this April 15, 2005 press release: MATRIX Pilot Project Concludes From the NewStandard: Controversial …
Report to Congress on Implementation of Section 1001 of the USA PATRIOT Act (as required by Section 1001(3) of Public Law 107-56), March 2005, Office of the Inspector General. “Section 1001 of the USA PATRIOT Act (Patriot Act), Public Law 107-56, directs the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) in the U.S. Department of Justice …
THE 2005 JEFFERSON MUZZLES ARE HERE! – “For 14 years the Thomas Jefferson Center has celebrated the April birth date of our namesake by awarding the Jefferson Muzzles to those who in the past year forgot Mr. Jefferson’s admonition that freedom of speech cannot be limited without being lost. Who committed some of the more …
From EFF, Bloggers Speak Up in Apple Case: “Groups working to protect journalists’ press freedoms, the creator of a blog-search tool, weblog publishers, and more than a dozen individual online journalist/bloggers filed a friend-of-the-court brief (PDF) [April 11] in Apple v. Does — the case in which Apple Computer is seeking to unmask online journalists’ …
