Patrick Leahy Blows His Stack Over Patriot Act… before he votes it forward
At Thursday’s markup of Patriot Act reauthorization, Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont nearly blew his top when responding to a Republican Senator who said the government shouldn’t have to show someone...
View ArticleThis is what you get for compromise on the Patriot Act, Patrick Leahy
On May 4 2011, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Pat Leahy made one final check with President Barack Obama’s Attorney General Eric Holder to make sure that S. 193, a bill considered by civil...
View ArticleThey Pushed the Patriot Act Forward, and Data Privacy Day is Your Door Prize
Over the last decade, the Patriot Act has allowed a wide net of surveillance, search and seizure to be cast over the United States, purposefully targeting innocent people not even suspected of criminal...
View ArticlePresident Obama Finally Nominates Civil Liberties Board. Now the Judiciary...
For 1,060 days of his presidency, Barack Obama refused to nominate enough members of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight board to constitute a quorum. That made it impossible for the PCLOB to...
View ArticleAsk Senator Patrick Leahy why he’s Sitting on Privacy and Civil Liberties...
It took President Obama three long years, but finally in December of 2011 he obeyed the law and finished putting all five nominees into consideration for appointment to the Privacy and Civil Liberties...
View ArticleSenate Judiciary Committee Stonewalls Civil Liberty Board Nominations for 3...
On December 20, 2011 — three years late — President Barack Obama finally obeyed the law that requires him to nominate members for all five positions on the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board...
View ArticleCollateral Damage and Civilian Casualties in the United States Congress
From 2000 to 2012, 53% of legislators who uttered the phrase “collateral damage” in the Congressional Record were Republicans, and 47% Democrats. The person who uttered the phrase “collateral damage”...
View ArticleSenator Introduces Bill to Stop Unwarranted Drone Surveillance (and it's not...
Yesterday, a lone member of the United States Senate introduced legislation that would formally outlaw the already unconstitutional government practice of using aerial drones to spy on Americans...
View ArticleSenator Leahy To Introduce Legislation To Limit The Patriot Act Today
This month, the American military (the National Security Agency is a military organization) has been caught spying on tens of millions, if not hundreds of millions, of Americans, without any particular...
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List Of Politicians Who Took $$ From Corporation Shipping US Jobs Down To Mexico
Step One: United Technologies Corporation made lots political contributions to elected officials. Step Two: United Technologies Corporation took a number of big government subsidies in exchange for...
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