Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The National Security Agency is likely violating the Constitution by gathering the dialing records of all phone calls in the U.S., the Los Angeles Times reports. The ruling by U.S. District Judge Richard J. Leon delivered a significant blow to the NSA and lays the groundwork for a Supreme Court battle. Leon’s…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Last time I checked, John Mitchell of the Nixonian era was no longer our Attorney General. But you’d be hard pressed not to feel that the crooked Mitchell was heading up the Justice Department, which we now learn, secretly obtained two months of telephone records of reporters and editors for The…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Last time I checked, John Mitchell of the Nixonian era was no longer our Attorney General. But you’d be hard pressed not to feel that the crooked Mitchell was heading up the Justice Department, which we now learn, secretly obtained two months of telephone records of reporters and editors for The…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Can the FBI force a phone company to turn over its customer records for an investigation? The question is at the center of a rare civil complaint filed by the U.S. Department of Justice, which claims the phone company was interfering with national security, reports the Wall Street Journal. The case, which…
