On AlterNet: fourth amendment
Stories, blog posts, and videos tagged as "fourth amendment"
Liliana Segura, AlterNet. May 9, 2009.
A teenage girl is strip-searched and gets snickered at by old men in robes for challenging it -- what's so funny about the Fourth Amendment?
True MajorityJune 26, 2008.
Congress thought granting immunity to phone companies that violate our rights was a good idea. Tens of thousands of their constituents disagreed.
Satyam Khanna, Think Progress AlterNet: Rights and Liberties. May 20, 2008.
During a national emergency, an illegal surveillance program may classify up to 8 million Americans as "enemies of the state."
Liliana Segura, AlterNet. April 10, 2008.
News that the Bush administration threw out the Fourth Amendment after 9/11 is a sobering reminder of the lawlessness of its spying program.
The Progress ReportApril 8, 2008.
The Department of Justice memo released last week is a chilling -- and revealing -- look at the Bush administration's torture policy.
Aziz Huq, TheNation.com. August 9, 2007.
The Bush Administration has successfully forced on Congress a law that largely authorizes open-ended surveillance of Americans' overseas phone calls and e-mails. How did they do it?
