Category Government spying

Reaction to Al Gore’s speech

Gore’s speech blasting Bush for illegal spying on citizens spawned huge commentary and reaction in newspapers, blogs, and websites. However, as noted yesterday and it’s still apparently true, not a single Democrat in Congress has supported what Gore said. Not…

Al Gore’s speech

Former Vice President Al Gore, charging that President Bush’s record on civil liberties posed a "grave danger" to America’s constitutional freedoms, on Monday urged the appointment of a special counsel to investigate Bush’s authorization of warrantless domestic surveillance by the…

Shades of the Weather Underground

Defense lawyers in some of the country’s biggest terrorism cases say they plan to bring legal challenges to determine whether the National Security Agency used illegal wiretaps against several dozen Muslim men tied to Al Qaeda. The lawyers said in…