FISA Amendments Act to be debated on monday - Telecom immunity, Warrantless wiretapping, Warrantless searches

This morning, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid announced on the Senate floor that the Senate FISA renewal bill containing immunity for the telecoms would go to the floor on Monday. The move, which many expected, dismayed opponents of telecom immunity.
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The bill allows the warrantless wiretapping of anyone "reasonably believed to be located outside the United States", US citizen or not. The bill also allows the Attorney General to authorize physical searches before applying for a warrant, and grants immunity to electronic communication service providers that comply with warrantless spying.

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Even if the Senate passes the bill on monday, the House may not pass it for a while.

Massive surveillance net keeps track of Americans' travel -- down to the size of your hotel bed

The Bush Administration has been collecting detailed records on the travel habits of Americans headed overseas, whether you fly, drive or take cruises abroad -- not simply your method of transit but the personal items you carry with you and the people you stay with, according to documents and statements obtained by the Washington Post.

They even keep sometimes keep track of what books you read. For as long as 15 years.

(Source: http://rawstory.com//news/2007/Massive_surveillance_net_keeps_track_of_0922.html)

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Bush Goes Private to Spy on You

A new intelligence institution to be inaugurated soon by the Bush administration will allow government spying agencies to conduct broad surveillance and reconnaissance inside the United States for the first time. Under a proposal being reviewed by Congress, a National Applications Office (NAO) will be established to coordinate how the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and domestic law enforcement and rescue agencies use imagery and communications intelligence picked up by U.S. spy satellites. If the plan goes forward, the NAO will create the legal mechanism for an unprecedented degree of domestic intelligence gathering that would make the United States one of the world's most closely monitored nations. Until now, domestic use of electronic intelligence from spy satellites was limited to scientific agencies with no responsibility for national security or law enforcement.
(Source: http://www.alternet.org/rights/69105/)

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FISA Amendments Act of 2007: Physical Searches Without a Warrant

FISA Amendments Act of 2007: Physical Searches Without a Warrant

If you listened to what few news reports there are about the FISA Amendments Act of 2007, you might be forgiven for thinking that the bill concerns electronic surveillance.

You’d be wrong.
Source:http://irregulartimes.com/index.php/archives/2007/10/23/fisa-amendments-act-of-2007-physical-searches-without-a-warrant/

To boil it down to a one-sentence conclusion, Section 107 of the FISA Amendments Act of 2007 enables the Attorney General to order physical searches of anyone’s property or possessions without a warrant or accountability, at the whim of the Attorney General. That’s a frightening prospect.
Source:http://irregulartimes.com/index.php/archives/2007/10/23/fisa-amendments-act-of-2007-physical-searches-without-a-warrant/

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