Despite a well-documented pattern of lawlessness by the FBI, including a failure to comply with even the most modest reforms, the secret court charged with ensuring FISA surveillance is lawful has essentially given the FBI unlimited mulligans for all of its unconstitutional acts.
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Last week, a Maine committee held a hearing on a bill that would ban “material support or resources” for warrantless federal surveillance programs. The passage of the bill would take an essential step every state needs to take at a time when the federal government seems unlikely to ever end unconstitutional spying on its own.
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A bill introduced in the Maine Senate would ban “material support or resources” for warrantless federal surveillance programs. This is an essential step every state needs to take at a time when the federal government seems unlikely to ever end unconstitutional spying on its own.
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A bill introduced in the Arkansas House would ban “material support or resources” for warrantless federal surveillance programs. This is an essential step every state needs to take at a time when the federal government seems unlikely to ever end unconstitutional spying on its own.
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Nullification Movement News, Episode 4. This week's stories include:
-FBI illegally collaborates with CIA and NSA
-Facial Recognition, Stingrays - OK, MS, NY, MN, SC - and a fail in ND
-No-Knocking in NC and elsewhere
According to the Supreme Court, the legality of NSA mass surveillance can't even be legally challenged. This was the message the Court sent when it refused to take up Jewel v. NSA, allowing an appellate court decision to stand.
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Michael Boldin and Mike Maharrey discuss some of the many - many - ways that government tracks and stalks you.
Michael Boldin and Mike Maharrey discuss the massive amount of spending and debt that’s being piled up year after year - plus a ramping up of the surveillance state.
"Scott and I talked about the city's lawsuit against me in an effort to keep "mobile surveillance cameras" secret and my recent second-round victory in court."
The NSA uses AT&T facilities in at least eight cities to warrantlessly monitor and collect billions of emails, phone calls, and online chats passing across the United States. According to a report published by The Intercept based on documents it obtained, the NSA has direct access to network hubs that run through buildings known as “backbone” and…