Bush Era

Senate Hopes to Rewrite FISA Law by October

By Helen Fessenden, The Hill Democrats on the Senate Intelligence Committee aim to have a new foreign-intelligence surveillance bill ready by early October, or at least early enough that the Bush administration will not be […]

Bush Era

Pentagon plans base along Iran border

RAW STORY The Pentagon is preparing to build a base near the Iraq-Iran border in an effort to stem the flow of “advanced Iranian weaponry” to Shiite militants in Iraq, according to Monday’s edition of […]

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FBI Data Mining Reached Beyond Initial Targets

By Eric Lichtblau, New York Times The F.B.I. cast a much wider net in its terrorism investigations than it has previously acknowledged by relying on telecommunications companies to analyze phone-call patterns of the associates of […]