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Follow-up to my November 24, 2005 posting, Advocacy Groups Petition FCC For Stay On Web Wiretapping Compliance, news from Declan McCullagh, News.com: “Universities, libraries and technology companies are asking a federal court to block controversial wiretap rules designed to facilitate police surveillance of the Internet.”
New York Times: Bush Presses On in Legal Defense for Wiretapping “Despite the administration’s arguments, many legal scholars both conservatives and liberals say they remain skeptical about Mr. Bush’s assertion that the Constitution and a September 2001 authorization to use military force provided legal justification for wiretapping phone calls and e-mail messages on …
GPO Releases 21st Century Edition of Historical Reference Directory House Document No. 108-222, Biographical Directory of the United States Congress 1774 – 2005
Efficient Process or “Chilling Effects”? Takedown Notices Under Section 512 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, Summary Report, Jennifer M. Urban, Director, Intellectual Property Clinic, University of Southern California and Laura Quilter, Non-Resident Fellow, Samuelson Clinic, University of California, Berkeley. [Links and Law]
National boundaries have survived in the virtual worldand allowed national laws to exert control over the Internet.
From askSam: “CPT and HCPCS Medical Codes, Free Searchable Version: This database contains a complete listing of CPT codes (Current Procedural Terminology) and HCPCS codes (Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System). This database is fully searchable by code, description, type or category.”
National Security Archive: “A secret Pentagon “roadmap: on war propaganda, personally approved by Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld in October 2003, calls for “boundaries” between information operations abroad and the news media at home, but provides for no such limits and claims that as long as the American public is not “targeted,” any leakage of …
Declan McCullagh reported that Judge James Ware, US District Court, Northern District of California, has calendered Gonzales v. Google, Inc. for February 27, 2006.
Press release: “The Democratic members of the Senate Judiciary Committee Friday sent a letter to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales seeking information relating to the Bush Administration’s domestic spying program in preparation for the panels Feb. 6 hearing on the program’s legality. The senators are seeking documents and correspondence from the days immediately following the Sept. …
Daily Prospect: “A new and extensive analysis of campaign donations from all of Jack Abramoffs tribal clients, done by a nonpartisan research firm, shows that a great majority of contributions made by those clients went to Republicans. The analysis undercuts the claim that Abramoff directed sums to Democrats at anywhere near the same rate.” [via …
Congress catching on to the value of blogs
Additional information related to Judiciary Chair Sends Questions to AG On Domestic Spying: Press release: “U.S. Senators Chuck Schumer and Russ Feingold sent a letter to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter urging him to call on more current and former high level Bush Administration officials including former Attorney General John Ashcroft, Deputy Attorneys General …