Category Government spying

It’s the same mindset, isn’t it, those who watch us at home and those wage war overseas. They think all they need is advanced technology. We will monitor all email and watch who remotely disagrees with us. This is the…

The presiding judge of a secret court that oversees government surveillance in espionage and terrorism cases is arranging a classified briefing for her fellow judges to address their concerns about the legality of President Bush’s domestic spying program, according to…

Undercover New York City police officers have conducted covert surveillance in the last 16 months of people protesting the Iraq war, bicycle riders taking part in mass rallies and even mourners at a street vigil for a cyclist killed in…

The US government has been spying on the public for decades. None of this is new. What is new is that the Bushies have gone so far over the top that they’ve blunderingly exposed this ugly ‘national security apparatus’ to…

Jurist worried that Bush order tainted work of secret panel How can you taint the work of a court that meets in secret, makes decisions that can’t be overruled, and rubber-stamps government requests for surveillance? But you gotta hand it…