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The Senate Judiciary Committee opened a hearing Feb. 6 inquiring into reports of electronic surveillance allegedly done in contravention of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, 50 U.S.C. Sections 1801 et seq. Ever since James Risen's Dec. 16, 2005, article in the New York Times reporting on the National Security Agency's extrajudicial electronic surveillance of U.S. persons, many have joined the debate over the proper scope of and authority for domestic electronic surveillance.
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An Owings Mills lawyer's attempt to sue his cable provider for recording his phone calls must go to arbitration, the Court of Special Appeals has held. Michael A. Freedman alleged the recordings by Comcast Corp. violated the state's wiretapping and electronic surveillance act. But the court found Freedman's lawsuit is governed by an arbitration provision added to his contract with the company.
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A police officer who relies in good faith on a prosecutor's legal opinion prior to an arrest that is warranted under the law is presumptively entitled to qualified immunity from a Fourth Amendment claim, the 3rd Circuit has ruled. The plaintiff was a passenger in a car pulled over for speeding, and filmed the traffic stop. The officer thought that the recording violated the Pennsylvania Wiretapping and Electronic Surveillance Control Act, and called the Assistant District Attorney to confirm. The ADA told him it was appropriate to make an arrest, and the officer did so.
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WASHINGTON, July 21 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Last week, Kevin Zeese, an attorney for VelvetRevolution.us, a national watchdog organization dedicated to clean, accountable and transparent government, sent a letter to both Maryland Attorney General Douglas Gansler and Maryland State's Attorney Patricia Coats Jessamy requesting criminal charges be brought against James O'Keefe, Hannah Giles and Andrew Breitbart for violating Maryland's Wiretapping and Electronic Surveillance Act. A copy of the letter is at http:// www.velvetrevolution.us/images/GANSLER-COATS_OKEEFE.pdf. In short, the letter asserts that Breitbart, O'Keefe and Giles secretly conspired, wiretapped and videotaped employees of the Baltimore ACORN office without their knowledge or consent, and published those videos with the ...
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WASHINGTON, Dec. 2, 2010 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Watchdog groups have launched a new campaign to hold Andrew Breitbart, James O'Keefe and Hannah Giles accountable for the violations of criminal law they committed by illegally and surreptitiously recording employees of the Baltimore, Maryland ACORN office in the summer of 2009 and posting edited video versions online in order to harm ACORN. The campaign, www.IndictBreitbart.org, is a grassroots campaign to let law enforcement officials in Maryland know that ordinary citizens want accountability for those who break the law. Maryland's Wiretapping and Electronic Surveillance Act prohibits both surreptitious recordings and disclosure of those recordings, with a prison sentence of up to five years and a $10,000 fine. Since that illegal co...
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President Bush won a political victory on Wednesday when House Democrats failed to pass a three-week extension of an electronic surveillance act. The House now is likely to accept a bill the Senate passed on Tuesday expanding the government's eavesdropping ability and protecting phone companies from lawsuits for participating in a National Security Agency eavesdropping program without a court order.
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The FISA Amendments Act of 2008 declares that "Electronic surveillance must be conducted in a constitutional manner that affords the greatest possible protection for individual privacy and free speech rights." But the ACLU and its coalition claims the new wiretapping law "fails to provide fundamental safeguards that the Constitution unambiguously requires. She added, "I cannot in good conscience accept that my conversations with people who live outside the U.S. will put them in harm's way as a result of overzealous government spying. Privacy in my communications is not simply an expectation, it's a right." Human Rights Watch program director lain Levine said the new legislation "will allow mass government interception of electronic communications, so long as the target is overseas, wit...
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The investigations of the Sep 11 terrorist attacks highlighted a series of lapses in intelligence-sharing within the federal government regarding terrorist operations. One area closely examined by Congress, the judiciary, and many legal and political commentators is the appropriate scope of intelligence collection within the US concerning foreign threats to the nation's security. The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 (FISA) governs the conduct of electronic surveillance and physical searches carried out for foreign intelligence purposes within the US. FISA establishes procedures for collecting foreign intelligence information, which are parallel to, and independent of, the conventional law enforcement channels used to secure judicial approval for searches and electronic surv...
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Showing apparent signs of concern over events in Iraq," ABC News reported last week, Osama bin Laden warned his terrorist comrades that "your enemies are trying to break up the jihadi groups. New Warrant Requirements The intelligence gap at issue apparently arose when a special federal court charged with reviewing matters involving national security secretly interpreted the Federal Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) to require a warrant for any electronic surveillance of persons outside the U.S. if their electronic communications might be routed through the U.S. Previously, the definition of "electronic surveillance" in FISA allowed intelligence officials to differentiate between surveillance of persons located outside the U.S.-for which no FISA warrant is required-and domestic surve...
