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Privacy Advocates Expect Whistleblowers to Share Warrantless Wiretap Info After Inauguration Day By RYAN SINGEL Nov. 11, 2008 When Barack Obama takes the oath of office on January 20, Americans won't just get a new...

By Randall Mikkelsen Nov 7, 2008 WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The FBI tracked about 108,000 potential terrorism threats or suspicious incidents from mid-2004 to November 2007, but most were found groundless, a...

October 7, 2008 By William Glaberson WASHINGTON -- A federal judge on Tuesday ordered the Bush administration to release 17 detainees at Guantánamo Bay by the end of the week, the first such ruling...

Guidelines Released Amid Protest from Congress, Privacy Groups and American Public FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE -- 10/3/2008 CONTACT: (202) 675-2312 or media@dcaclu.org (212) 519-7829 or 549-2666 or media@aclu.org Washington, DC -- New FBI guidelines governing investigations were released today...

By Matt Taibbi and David Ray Griffin October 6, 2008 Alternet.org A poll of 17 countries that came out September of this year revealed that majorities in only nine of them "believe that...

by P. Devlin Buckley September 5, 2008 The American Monitor Law firms representing victims of the 9/11 attacks in an ongoing legal dispute with wealthy Saudis suspected of financing al-Qaeda have recently turned their attention to two...