A presentation on this important First Amendment case (Media Alliance is one of the 19 plaintiffs) prepared by Joe Nicholson. First Unitarian vs NSA helped to end mass blanket telephone metadata sweeps by the NSA.
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Strange Bedfellows: Bush Security Apparatus Letter to Congress
This letter, signed by a who’s who of Bush-era military politicos was sent to Congress before the Amash/Conyers vote.
Signatories include Alberto Gonzalez, John Negroponte, Stephen Hadley, Porter Goss and Michael Chertoff.
The Amash/Conyers vote (the amendment to defund the telephone metadata spying program was defeated 217-205) was a bizarre vote by even DC standards. Continue reading Strange Bedfellows: Bush Security Apparatus Letter to Congress