Archive for February, 2006

These Days, Its Alllll Secrecy and Noooo Privacy

Thursday, February 9th, 2006

Some of you may recognize the title as a line from the 1974 Rolling Stones song Fingerprint File. And just as their Superbowl performance proved the Stones can still rock, the Bush Administration’s performance proves that Jagger’s observation is still true.
By now, everyone knows about the NSA’s domestic wiretapping program, or as the […]

Declarations of War, the Constitution, and Other Statutory Obligations

Thursday, February 2nd, 2006

Does the President have the authority to conduct doemstic wiretaps without a warrant? According to Reuters, “(Attorney General) Gonzales said Bush has inherent constitutional powers to conduct warrantless surveillance to detect or prevent an attack. He also said a resolution passed by the U.S. Congress after September 11 authorizing the use of military force […]