Matt Renner, TruthOut.org. October 14, 2009. Listening in on attorney-client conversations is "unlawful and unconstitutional," according to Obama. So why is the Justice Department arguing in favor of the practice?
Joseph Huff-Hannon, Indypendent. May 21, 2009. In Colombia, our closest South American ally, intelligence agents spied on judges, journalists, and politicians. Was the U.S. involved?
Ali Frick, Think Progress AlterNet: Video. January 22, 2009. "The National Security Agency had access to all Americans' communications -- faxes, phone calls, and their computer communications."
Ali Frick, Think Progress AlterNet: Rights and Liberties. December 22, 2008. Cheney’s startling claims run directly counter to accounts by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Sen. Jay Rockefeller.
Emptywheel, Firedoglake AlterNet: PEEK. November 23, 2008. An area that has been neglected recently is that of the illegal wiretapping and surveillance policies. That needs to change.
Ali Frick, Think Progress AlterNet: Sex and Relationships. October 9, 2008. Making a sexy phone call overseas? Despite Bush's insistence otherwise, it seems the spooks were listening in.
Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!. July 26, 2008. A debate between two progressive legal experts on the FISA bill and the idea of prosecuting of Bush and White House officials for criminal acts.
Earl Ofari Hutchinson, deleted. April 2, 2008. The FBI waged a secret war against Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Did they also play a role in his assassination?
Peter Swire, Think Progress AlterNet: PEEK. February 5, 2008. This proposal repeats the mistakes of the Federal Intrusion Detection Network, which proposed similar monitoring of private systems in 1999.
Ray McGovern, Consortium News. December 29, 2007. Americans today are seeing the same sheepish submissiveness that characterized Germany after the burning of the Reichstag.
Amy Goodman, King Features Syndicate. November 14, 2007. At 95 years old, Stud Terkel has been blacklisted, wiretapped and censored, but he hasn't lost his fighting spirit.
Brian Beutler, Media Consortium. October 24, 2007. A revolving door between the telecommunications industry and federal government ensures that the doors to your personal privacy are wide open.
Adam Howard, AlterNet: Video. September 10, 2007. Jack Goldsmith tells Bill Moyers what happened when Gonzales and Andy Card confronted a seriously ill Ashcroft about wiretapping.
Steve Benen, AlterNet: PEEK. September 4, 2007. Steve Benen: A new book by former Assistant Attorney General Jack Goldsmith proves that Cheney's alter ego David Addington is a lunatic.
Adam Howard, AlterNet: Video. July 24, 2007. Alberto Gonzales' testimony before Congress is so pathetic, so rife with lies and contradictions, it's just embarrassing.
Guest Blogger, AlterNet: PEEK. June 27, 2007. Michael Roston: Sen. Leahy says, "Our attempts to obtain information through testimony of Administration witnesses have been met with a consistent pattern of evasion and misdirection."
Guest Blogger, AlterNet: PEEK. June 6, 2007. Ryan Powers: In a press conference yesterday, Alberto Gonzales seriously contradicted his own sworn testimony regarding the infamous hospital visit to John Ashcroft regarding Bush's illegal wiretapping program.
Guest Blogger, AlterNet: PEEK. May 23, 2007. Arianna Huffington: Did President Bush order Andy Card and Alberto Gonzales to put the squeeze on Ashcroft?
Adam Howard, AlterNet: Video. May 17, 2007. Bush dodges a question regarding new allegations that Alberto Gonzales tried to force a gravely ill John Ashcroft to sign off on warrantless wiretapping.
Faiz Shakir, Nico Pitney, Amanda Terkel, Satyam Khanna, Matt Corley, The Progress Report. May 16, 2007. A new revelation from Alberto Gonzales' former deputy reveals an attempt at an outrageous attempt to get a bedridden John Ashcroft to extend Bush's unwarranted domestic spying program
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