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Where are all the damned, so-called Libertarians on FISA? How about here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here… have I mentioned that this is all just my own stuff so far, not counting a few thousand more unbylined words on the topic over at The Economist‘s blog? Try Googling “Tim Lee” and […]

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The FISA battle is giving me some perspective on how the process of beshrillification unfolds: (1) Republicans make a series of dubious or straight-up false claims in support of their position. (2) Because the matter is complex, a relatively small number of people are actually paying close enough attention to know how and why the […]

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I’m not normally much of an activist, but if you care at all about the dangers of unchecked executive power to spy on Americans, get on this.

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So, I’ve been saying for a while now that, contrary to the administration’s claims,  there’s just no way on earth that a FISA court judge issued a ruling last spring requiring FISA warrants for all intercepts of foreign-to-foreign communications that happen to pass through U.S. switches.  Even if the FISA court were not incredibly deferential, […]

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Almost everything about this new survey on wiretapping conducted by Newt Gingrich’s American Solutions is a lie. Details here.

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They may get legal immunity, but they won’t be immune from the judgment of the Billboard Liberation Front: (Hat tip: Brian Doherty)

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The Heritage Foundation’s warrantless wiretap clock lets you know precisely how long scary terrorists have been celebrating the president’s inability to eavesdrop on Americans’ international communications at whim: Update: As a commenter notes, the clock misidentifies the last unit in their counter as “milliseconds.” I used to jokingly say of people I regarded as especially […]

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Brought to you by Andy McCarthy: The Court’s action sustains the Sixth Circuit’s decision that the ACLU and its co-plaintiffs did not have standing to challenge the program. (I wrote about that decision for the Weekly Standard, here.) This underscores that the President had constitutional authority to order warrantless surveillance; that the cooperating telecoms were […]

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Apparently, this is a popular question. And it’s popular because it keeps the focus on whether opponents of unchecked surveillance have somehow failed to notice the very real threat we face. If you concede that of course we all understand that threat, then you might have to admit the real problem is simply that some […]

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