On October 14, almost 4 dozen civil rights organizations (including Media Alliance) wrote to the Chair and Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee Bob Goodlatte and John Conyers about pending reform to Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). Continue reading 4 Dozen Civil Rights Groups Demand Warrants for Section 702 Searches
Here is the May 2012 NSA audit documenting 2,776 incidents in the preceding 12 months of unauthorized collection, storage, access to or distribution of legally protected communications.
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.
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
