Google: FBI Is Spying on Internet Users with So-Called National Security Letters

Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI has been demanding that Google divulge account information of up to thousands of its users to authorities without warrants, Wired.com reports. Google revealed it has received numerous National Security Letters from the FBI since 2009. Those letters, which the FBI has abused in the past, are written demands to compel…

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California Champions Bill to Protect Illegal Immigrants

Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com While Arizona and Alabama impose tough crackdowns on illegal immigration, California lawmakers are creating a bill that would protect many illegal immigrants, Reuters reports. California lawmakers are crafting a bill that would bar local police from referring a detainee to immigration officials unless he or she has been convict of a serious…

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Constitutional Clause Causing Headaches for Justice Department in Probes on Capitol Hill

By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — A 2007 court ruling saying FBI agents violated the Constitution when they raided the Congressional office of Rep. William J. Jefferson in 2006, appears to be haunting the Justice Department. Washington Post reporters Jerry Markon and R. Jeffrey Smith report that the 2007 ruling, based on the “speech or…

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