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- Fort Hood Victims Set To Receive Purple Hearts, Combat Status
From the Washington Examiner: Congress is set to make victims of the 2009 Fort Hood shootings eligible for Purple Hearts and combat injury benefits after the Obama administration has denied them the status for the past five years. House...
- Judge Throws Out ‘state Secrets’ Claim, Allowing Lawsuit Against Nsa To Continue
From Will at THE OTHER NEWS: Judge throws out ‘state secrets’ claim, allowing lawsuit against NSA to continue.HT:RussiaToday. The suit, known as Jewel vs. National Security Agency, was originally filed in 2008 by the Electronic Frontier Foundation...
- If Al Qaeda Is Decimated Why Do They Need This Bill?
Senate bill rewrite lets feds read your e-mail without warrantsProposed law scheduled for a vote next week originally increased Americans’ e-mail privacy. Then law enforcement complained. Now it increases government access to e-mail and other digital...
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Define is. . . The catchphrase is "Does not intend" Especially when the administration wanted it in the first place Politico: Obama signs defense bill -- with objections By: Jennifer Epstein December 31, 2011 04:02 PM EST HONOLULU – President Barack...
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ABC: President Obama Issues “Signing Statement” Indicating He Won’t Abide by Provision in Budget Bill April 15, 2011 6:28 PM In a statement issued Friday night, President Obama took issue with some provisions in the budget bill – and in one case...
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Congress Quietly Authorizes Surveillance Of All Americans
Congress this week quietly passed a bill that may give unprecedented legal authority to the government's warrantless surveillance powers, despite a last-minute effort by Rep. Justin Amash to kill the bill.
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The provision in question is "one of the most egregious sections of law I've encountered during my time as a representative," Amash wrote on his Facebook page. The tea-party libertarian, who teamed up with Rep. John Conyers in an almost-successful bid to defund the National Security Agency in the wake of the Snowden revelations, warned that the provision "grants the executive branch virtually unlimited access to the communications of every American."
The measure already passed the Senate by unanimous consent on Tuesday, and it is now on its way to the White House, where President Obama is expected to sign it.
The objections from Amash and others arose from language in the bill's Section 309, which includes a phrase to allow for "the acquisition, retention, and dissemination" of U.S. phone and Internet data. That passage will give unprecedented statutory authority to allow for the surveillance of private communications that currently exists only under a decades-old presidential decree, known as Executive Order 12333....
- Fort Hood Victims Set To Receive Purple Hearts, Combat Status
From the Washington Examiner: Congress is set to make victims of the 2009 Fort Hood shootings eligible for Purple Hearts and combat injury benefits after the Obama administration has denied them the status for the past five years. House...
- Judge Throws Out ‘state Secrets’ Claim, Allowing Lawsuit Against Nsa To Continue
From Will at THE OTHER NEWS: Judge throws out ‘state secrets’ claim, allowing lawsuit against NSA to continue.HT:RussiaToday. The suit, known as Jewel vs. National Security Agency, was originally filed in 2008 by the Electronic Frontier Foundation...
- If Al Qaeda Is Decimated Why Do They Need This Bill?
Senate bill rewrite lets feds read your e-mail without warrantsProposed law scheduled for a vote next week originally increased Americans’ e-mail privacy. Then law enforcement complained. Now it increases government access to e-mail and other digital...
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Define is. . . The catchphrase is "Does not intend" Especially when the administration wanted it in the first place Politico: Obama signs defense bill -- with objections By: Jennifer Epstein December 31, 2011 04:02 PM EST HONOLULU – President Barack...
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ABC: President Obama Issues “Signing Statement” Indicating He Won’t Abide by Provision in Budget Bill April 15, 2011 6:28 PM In a statement issued Friday night, President Obama took issue with some provisions in the budget bill – and in one case...