Julian Sanchez, The Nation. October 24, 2009. Thanks to behind-the-scenes maneuvering by the Obama administration, a bipartisan majority has approved legislation that seems to abandon hope of reining in the Patriot Act.
The American Civil Liberties UnionOctober 1, 2009. Sen. Russ Feingold and others have introduced the JUSTICE Act, which reforms our surveillance laws, including the Patriot Act and the FISA Amendments Act of 2008.
The American Civil Liberties Union September 29, 2009. The American Civil Liberties Union has challenged the constitutionality of the FISA provisions in court.
Willam Fisher, IPS News. July 8, 2009. Civil rights groups are calling on President Obama to "address systemic problems" with the government's treatment of Muslim charities.
John Nichols, TheNation.com AlterNet: PEEK. June 18, 2009. In a letter to president Obama, Sen. Russ Feingold issues a stern warning about his dangerously shifting positions on wiretapping.
Agence France PresseJune 4, 2009. The government argued it was immune from prosecution on national security grounds in a lawsuit by an Islamic charity that was spied on.
Glenn Greenwald, Salon. April 16, 2009. New reports about NSA spying are the inevitable result of last year's FISA-gutting law, which the Democrats supported.
Daphne Eviatar, Washington Independent. December 3, 2008. As the Bush term ends, his administration is using every possible excuse to keep its captives from the "war on terror" imprisoned.
Amy Goodman, Juan Gonzalez, Democracy Now!. September 23, 2008. A new book delves into the secret history of the vice presidency, revealing Cheney as "the father of the warrantless domestic surveillance program."
Liliana Segura, AlterNet AlterNet: War on Iraq. August 26, 2008. While official rhetoric in Denver ignores the party's failure to end the war in Iraq, one group of vets is not backing down.
Katie Halper, KatieHalper.com AlterNet: PEEK. July 22, 2008. Gore Proves Global Warming by Sweating Profusely, and Nine Other Things I Learned at the Netroots Nation/KKK Gathering.
Don Hazen, AlterNet. July 18, 2008. From Bush's oil hoax to the New Yorker's sorry attempt at satire, our Zeitgeist list tracks the progressive issues of the week.
Chris Hedges, LA Times. July 12, 2008. The new FISA law uses terrorism as a pretext to permit wholesale spying and would seriously cripple our free press.
Davin Hutchins, American News Project AlterNet: Video. July 11, 2008. ANP looks into who was for immunity, and how much telecom money is in their campaign coffers.
John Nichols, Roberto Lovato, TheNation.com and Of America. July 10, 2008. Obama votes like a Republican on FISA and backs off from Iraq, keeping corporate America happy.
Bob Ostertag, Huffington Post. July 9, 2008. Want to put Obama's feet to the fire? Donate to a Senator who has been a true leader on the issue: Russ Feingold.
Ari Melber, TheNation.com. July 9, 2008. If Obama is lucky, he will continue to benefit from these energized, sophisticated activists who support his candidacy while they press his hand.
Daniel Ellsberg, Antiwar.com. July 8, 2008. With the Senate's FISA vote delayed, we have one more chance to sway Congress -- and Obama -- to reject this dangerous legislation.
Don Hazen, AlterNet. July 8, 2008. A pilot feature of AlterNet on key questions of the day -- is Obama really tacking to the center, and why gas is so damn pricey.
Democracy Now!, Democracy Now! AlterNet: Rights and Liberties. July 7, 2008. "The Democratic Party and the Congress, in general, has been unfriendly to me..."
