By Jason Leopold, t r u t h o u t Two years ago, US District Court Judge James Robertson sent a letter to Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., notifying him of his resignation from a secret intelligence court set up to monitor the federal government’s domestic surveillance activities. Robertson’s abrupt departure came on…
Nick Juliano, Raw Story The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee has given the White House another 12 days to hand over documents it requested nearly six weeks ago regarding the administration’s legal justifications for its warrantless wiretapping program. “Despite my patience and flexibility, you have rejected every proposal,” Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) wrote in…
By Greg Miller, Los Angeles Times As the debate over new espionage legislation intensified last week, senior Democrats in Congress gathered around a speakerphone late Thursday to work out with Director of National Intelligence J. Michael McConnell what they thought were the final pieces of a deal. Instead, the deal unraveled, according to officials involved….
By Walter Pincus, Washington Post The Bush administration plans to leave oversight of its expanded foreign eavesdropping program to the same government officials who supervise the surveillance activities and to the intelligence personnel who carry them out, senior government officials said yesterday. The law, which permits intercepting Americans’ calls and e-mails without a warrant if…
