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    • U.S. threatens suit if Maine probes Verizon ties to NSA

      Posted by Billbar from Press Herald

      "Verizon may have broken the law, and the Department of Justice is overstepping its bounds in trying to intimidate the state PUC from investigating the potential violation," said Shenna Bellows, executive director of the Maine Civil Liberties Union. "And I do think it sets an extraordinarily dangerous precedent for the federal government to threaten to sue the state, (which is) merely doing its job."

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    • NSA risking electrical overload

      Posted by Billbar from Baltimore Sun

      The demand for electricity to operate its expanding intelligence systems has left the high-tech eavesdropping agency on the verge of exceeding its power supply, the lifeblood of its sprawling 350-acre Fort Meade headquarters, according to current and former intelligence officials. William Nolte, a former NSA executive who spent decades with the agency, said power disruptions would severely hamper the agency. "You've got an awfully big computer plant and a lot of precision equipment, and I don't think they would handle power surges and the like really well," he said. "Even re-calibrating equipment would be really time consuming -- with lost opportunities and lost up-time."

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      Specter's NSA Plan Hits Snag

      Posted by Billbar from Washington Post

      A White House-endorsed plan to formally legalize the National Security Agency's warrantless surveillance program ran into more political problems yesterday in the Senate, as Democrats successfully maneuvered to block a committee vote on the proposal. In addition, three of the committee's leading Democrats announced that they would block the confirmation of a senior Justice Department official in protest of a recent move by President Bush.

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      Bush Would Let Secret Court Sift Wiretap Process

      Posted by Billbar from New York Times

      After months of resistance, the White House agreed Thursday to allow a secret intelligence court to review the legality of the National Security Agency’s program to conduct wiretaps without warrants on Americans suspected of having ties to terrorists. The plan, brokered over the last three weeks in negotiations between Senator Arlen Specter and senior White House officials, including President Bush himself Representative Jane Harman of California, the ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, said she saw the Specter-White House agreement as an “end run” around the FISA law requiring the approval of individual wiretapping warrants.

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    • Ignoring the Obvious Meaning of Hamdan

      Posted by Billbar

      McCain's suggestion that Hamdan has no bearing on the President's other controversial programs is entirely disingenuous. Unfortunately, I expect others will soon follow his lead, if they haven't already. The goods new, though, is that federal judges--who will be the first to hear challenges to these other programs--are bound by the reasoning of Hamdan, not the illogical pontifications of Republican flacks. Thank goodness for that.

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    • Lawmakers: NSA database incomplete

      Posted by Billbar from USA Today

      Members of the House and Senate intelligence committees confirm that the National Security Agency has compiled a massive database of domestic phone call records. But some lawmakers also say that cooperation by the nation's telecommunication companies was not as extensive as first reported by USA TODAY on May 11.

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    Jon comments on:

    Top court rejects ACLU domestic spying lawsuit

    Kafka anyone?

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    11:39 am 2/20/08
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    Billbar comments on:

    Is the NSA spying on U.S. Internet traffic?

    Whether it's a legal or illegal operation, the descriptions definitely point to NSA monitoring of the internet. Time for another FOIA request, maybe a another lawsuit. Anyone know if there's a internet backbone node in St. Louis?

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    6:58 am 6/21/06
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    Billbar comments on:

    Whistle-Blower's Evidence, Uncut

    Here's the link: http://blog.wired.com/27BStroke6/att_klein_wired.pdf

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    8:23 am 5/22/06
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