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Appeals Court: FBI Does Not Have to Release Memo Granting Permission to Gather Phone Records

allan11 years ago01 mins

Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A confidential Justice Department legal opinion on the extent of the FBI’s surveillance authority does not have to be released to the public, a federal appeals court ruled, the Washington Post reports. The January 2010 memo gave the FBI permission to gather phone call records from telecommunications companies. The U.S. Court of…

Supreme Court Case Pits Protesters’ Rights to Be Heard Against Politicians

allan11 years ago02 mins

The Daily Astoria Editorial Can political protests be restricted so that political leaders don’t have to listen? This is one way of framing the issue before the U.S. Supreme Court when it considers this term whether Secret Service agents were right in ordering protesters to be removed from President George W. Bush’s sight and hearing…