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Happy Birthday Habeas Corpus… Get Well Soon!
~ from an e-mail from the ACLU Today, June 15th, marks the 792nd anniversary of the writ of habeas corpus.* There’s rarely been more at stake for our friend Habeas Corpus than there is this year. So we’re taking a moment to celebrate him and show him we care. And you can be a part…
FBI Would Skirt the Law With Proposed Phone Record Program
By Justin Rood, ABC News A proposed new FBI program would skirt federal laws by paying private companies to hold millions of phone and Internet records which the bureau is barred from keeping itself, experts say.The $5 million project would apparently pay private firms to store at least two years’ worth of telephone and Internet…
Questions raised about FBI’s informants
By Josh Meyer, Los Angeles Times Even as the FBI hails as a major success story its breakup of an alleged plot by “radical Islamists” to kill soldiers at Fort Dix, N.J., federal authorities acknowledge that the case has underscored a troubling vulnerability in the domestic war on terror. They say the FBI, despite an…
