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  Link   Nancy Pelosi: 'How Dare The Administration' Threaten To Veto Intelligence Reform (VIDEO)
Nancy Pelsoi issued a warning to the Obama administration over the weekend on the importance of the White House standing behind Democratic efforts to expand the scope of intelligence oversight programs ... Huff Post; July 27, 2010 		0
  Link   Chairwoman of powerful intelligence subcommittee used unsecured wireless network at home, group says
... Subsequently, Harman was not named chairwoman of the Intelligence Committee. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said that reports of any wiretaps had nothing to do with it. Pelosi has called ... Raw Story; July 9, 2010 		3
  Link   Pelosi's Deadlock Holds Up Intel Czar Nomination
Speaker Nancy Pelosi is blocking a House floor vote on an intelligence reform bill that, she says, doesn't go far enough to strengthen congressional oversight of sensitive spy operations. Newsweek; June 24, 2010 		5
  Link   Feinstein Cries Uncle, Schedules Spy-Czar Confirmation Hearing
... The senator was demanding that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi allow a House floor vote on a bill containing intelligence oversight reforms that Feinstein is seeking. The senator and ... Newsweek; July 14, 2010 		4
  Link   Pelosi’s Intel Oversight Power Play
Nancy Pelosi is at it again. She does not seem to understand who the enemy is regarding the War on Terror. Instead of coming up with ways to combat the terrorists, she tries to handcuff ... Frum Forum; July 13, 2010 		2
  Link   The Political Scene: Pelosi and Acting on Principle
In this week’s Political Scene podcast, Dorothy Wickenden talks with David Remnick and Ryan Lizza about Israel, Iran, and what Nancy Pelosi knew about the Bush Administration’s use of torture and when. NYT; May 21, 2009 		8
  Link   H.R. 2701: Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2010
To authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2010 for intelligence and intelligence-related activities of the United States Government, the Community Management Account, and the CIA ... GovTrack; Posted on March 9, 2010 		20
  Link   Pelosi Applauds House Passage of the Intelligence Authorization Act
Nancy Pelosi released the following statement on the House passage of the Intelligence Authorization Act, which would strengthen and improve America´s intelligence capabilities by increasing funding ... American Chron; 3/7/2010 		12
  Link   CONFER: Patriot Act debate on the horizon
On Dec. 14, the Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, struck down a Senate plan to extend until 2013 provisions of the Patriot Act that were set to expire last Thursday. Niagara Gazette; January 4, 2010 		66
  Link   House Delays Patriot Act Spy Vote
... House Speaker Nancy Pelosi declined to include a vote on the Patriot Act in a Pentagon funding bill. Threat Level; December 16, 2009 		50
  Link   S.1692: USA Patriot Act Sunset Extenstion Act of 2009
Title: A bill to extend the sunset of certain provisions of the USA PATRIOT Act and the authority to issue national security letters, and for other purposes. Thomas; Linked on November 3, 2009 		60
  Link   H.R. 984: State Secret Protection Act of 2009
To provide safe, fair, and responsible procedures and standards for resolving claims of state secret privilege. Govtrack; Linked on November 3, 2009 		69
  Link   Obama Administration Seeks Renewal of Three Key Parts of PATRIOT Act
The administration has asked lawmakers to extend powers allowing the government to collect a wide range of financial and personal records, as well as monitor suspects with roving wiretaps. Democracy Now!; September 22, 2009 		97
  Link   EFF Supports JUSTICE Bill to Reform the USA PATRIOT Act and Repeal Telecom Immunity
On December 31, three provisions of the USA PATRIOT Act that broadly expanded government surveillance authority in the wake of 9/11 are set to expire. EFF; September 17, 2009 		116
  Link   SENATORS INTRODUCE PATRIOT ACT FIXES TO SAFEGUARD AMERICANS' RIGHTS
U.S. Senators Russ Feingold (D-WI), Dick Durbin (D-IL), Jon Tester (D-MT), Tom Udall (D-NM), Jeff Bingaman (D-NM), Bernie Sanders (I-VT), Daniel Akaka (D-HI) and Ron Wyden (D-OR) have introduced legislation ... Feingold; 9/17/09 		54
  Link   Lawsuit seeks CIA records for Pelosi briefings
The conservative group Judicial Watch has filed a lawsuit to get access to the CIA's records of congressional briefings on terrorism interrogation techniques. AP; July 23, 2009 		33
  Link   Still wrong on wiretapping
One of former President George W. Bush's most disastrous legacies - his warrantless wiretaps - has picked up a curious ally in President Obama. SF Gate; July 20, 2009 		79
  Link   ACLU Responds to US Government Reluctance to Defend CIA Torture Program
American Civil Liberties Union lawyers representing five victims of a US government clandestine extraordinary rendition and torture program, filed its response yesterday to US Justice Department lawyers FCJ; 7/6/09 		79
  Link   Cheney Is Linked to Concealment of C.I.A. Project
The question of how completely the C.I.A. informed Congress about sensitive programs has been hotly disputed by Democrats and Republicans since May, when Pelosi accused the agency of ... NYT; July 12, 2009 		36
  Link   2 senators: CIA concealment may have broken law
However, Cornyn said the new disclosure "looks to me suspiciously like an attempt to provide political cover" to ... Pelosi and other Democrats. Pelosi has accused the CIA of lying ... SF Gate; July 12, 2009 		42
  Link   Report: Too few officials knew of surveillance
Not enough relevant officials were aware of the size and depth of an unprecedented surveillance program started under Pres. Bush, let alone signed off on it, a team of federal inspectors general found. AP; 7/11/09 		46
  Link   Democrats Say C.I.A. Deceived Congress
The director of the CIA, Leon E. Panetta, has told the House Intelligence Committee in closed-door testimony that the CIA concealed “significant actions” from 2001 until late last month ... NYT; July 9, 2009 		66
  Link   Federal Judge Issues Mixed Rulings on Warrantless Wiretapping
A federal district court judge dealt a blow to dozens of plaintiffs Wednesday in a warrantless wiretapping case while providing a lifeline to other similar cases. FCJ; June 5, 2009 		101
  Link   Bush Lets U.S. Spy on Callers Without Courts
Months after the Sept. 11 attacks, President Bush secretly authorized the National Security Agency to eavesdrop on Americans and others inside the United States ... NYT; 2004 but publication postponed until 12/15/05 		241
  Link   Judge Takes Government to Task in Al-Haramain Spying Case
Today, United States District Court Chief Judge Vaughn Walker took the government to task for failing to obey his prior orders in Al-Haramain v. Obama (formerly known as Al-Haramain v. Bush) ... EFF; May 22, 2009 		68
  Link   U.S. judge warns Justice Dept.
A federal judge in SF lashed out Friday at the Obama administration for its refusal to share a classified document with an Islamic group that claims it was illegally wiretapped ... SF Chronicle; May 23, 2009 		68
  Link   Federal Appeals Court Reverses States Secrets Decision
In a partial victory for five men subjected to extraordinary rendition and torture, a three-judge panel with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit unanimously reversed today ... FCJ; April 28, 2009 		180
  Link   Obama Administration Claims “Sovereign Immunity” in Attempt to Dismiss Lawsuit Against NSA over Domestic Surveillance
Glenn Greenwald about how the Department of Justice has demanded the dismissal of a lawsuit brought by the Electronic Frontier Foundation based on “state secrets” and “sovereign immunity.” Dem Now! April 16, 2009 		16
  Link   Jon Stewart on the Harman-AIPAC scandal
Video. The Daily Show; Linked on May 1, 2009 		69
  Link   Pelosi Knew of Harman Wiretap
Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) today acknowledged that she was briefed "a few years ago" by Bush administration officials shortly after Rep. Jane Harman was ensnared in a wiretap. Wash Post; April 22, 2009 		125
  Link   Pelosi: Most lawmakers unaware of spying.
... But at a morning meeting with reporters Wednesday, Speaker Pelosi talked about the challenges faced by rank and file members of congressional committees supervising intelligence activities. CSM; 4/22/09 		112
  Link   Pelosi Statement on Wiretapping Activities Under Bush Terrorist Surveillance Program
Nancy Pelosi released the following statement today regarding wiretapping activities conducted under President Bush's Terrorist Surveillance Program ... PR Newswire; April 16, 2009 		101
  Link   Pelosi Splits With Obama On State Secrets, Bush Investigations
Nancy Pelosi struck a discordant chord with the White House on Wednesday, claiming a "difference of opinion" with the administration's approach to litigating warrantless wiretapping lawsuits ... Huff Post; 4/9/09 		147
  Link   Administration defends Bush wire-taps
The Obama administration is again invoking government secrecy in defending the Bush administration's wiretapping program, this time against a lawsuit by AT&T customers ... SF Gate; April 6, 2009 		196
  Link   DOJ Backs Yoo in Padilla Lawsuit
For the Department of Justice, this has been a week of both rejecting and defending John Yoo. The Blog of Legal Times; March 6, 2009 		138
  Link   A Prison of Words
HAS the Obama administration changed the legal rules for detaining suspects in the war on terrorism, or is it continuing in the footsteps of the Bush administration? NYT; March 18, 2009 		115
  Link   Obama’s Response to the al-Haramain Smack-Down? Cheneyesque Reasoning
The Executive Branch's Cheneyesque claim that it has a stranglehold on classified information is crumbling around Cheney's rancid flesh. Fire Dog Lake; February 27, 2009 		23
  Link   The Al-Haramain ruling and the current Congress
A Bush-41-appointed judge yesterday became the third judge -- out of three who have ruled on the issue -- to reject the Bush-43's claim that the President can override or ignore FISA. Salon; July 3, 2008 		139
  Link   US: CIA destroyed nearly 100 interrogation tapes
The CIA destroyed nearly 100 videotapes of terror suspect interrogations, far more than previously acknowledged, the Obama administration said Monday ... SF Gate; March 2, 2009 		45
  Link   Appeals Court Allows Classified Evidence in Spy Case
A federal appeals court dealt a blow to the Obama administration Friday when it refused to block a judge from admitting top secret evidence in a lawsuit weighing whether a U.S. president may bypass Congress. Wired; 2/27/09 		110
  Link   Obama's Efforts to Block a Judicial Ruling on Bush's Illegal Eavesdropping
The Obama DOJ's embrace of Bush's state secrets privilege in the Jeppesen (torture/rendition) case generated substantial outrage, and rightly so. Salon; February 28, 2009 		72
  Link   Obama Backs Bush On Bagram Detainees
The Obama administration, siding with the Bush White House, contended Friday that detainees in Afghanistan have no constitutional rights. Huff Post; February 20, 2009 		103
  Link   Obama's Legal Team Copies Bush's 'State Secrets' Trick to Cover Up Torture and Renditions
On Monday in San Francisco, attorneys representing the Obama administration did what many of the president's supporters would have considered unthinkable on election day ... AlterNet; February 10, 2009 		156
  Link   Obama administration goes to bat for secrecy
For the second time this week, the Obama administration has gone to court in San Francisco to argue for secrecy in defending a terrorism policy ... SF Chron; February 13, 2009 		180
  Link   Obama Backs Off a Reversal on Secrets
In a closely watched case involving rendition and torture, a lawyer for the Obama administration seemed to surprise a panel of federal appeals judges on Monday by pressing ahead with an argument ... NYT; February 9, 2009 		185
  Link   Rendition case in S.F. to test Obama policies
The public is likely to get its first close look at the Obama administration's policies on torture, secrecy and prisoners' rights in a San Francisco courtroom today ... SF Chron; February 9, 2009 		195
  Link   Extraordinary Renditions: No Hope for Change in Obama Administration
A panel of judges on the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals heard arguments in a detainee abuse case Monday that tested the degree to which the Obama administration will depart from the practices ... FCJ; February 10, 2009 		278
  Link   llegal wire-tapping suit now in Obama's court
... Obama dismayed civil liberties groups last summer when he voted to authorize President Bush's clandestine wiretapping program after publicly denouncing it. SF Chron; January 19, 2009 		110
  Link   The Fed Who Blew the Whistle
Thomas M. Tamm was entrusted with some of the government's most important secrets. He had a Sensitive Compartmented Information security clearance, a level above Top Secret. Newsweek; December 13, 2008 		162
  Link   House Leaders Seek Exclusion Of Wiretapped Calls From Renzi Trial
A bipartisan group of House leaders, including Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), want a federal magistrate to suppress some phone calls recording by the FBI ... CBS/Politico; November 26, 2008 		109
  Link   AT&T To Sponsor DNC Denver 2008… FISA vote say wha?
In a very interesting move, AT&T has signed on to sponsor and help pay for the woefully underfunded DNC 2008 Denver Convention just weeks after the party’s presumptive nominee voted for ... TX Hill Country; 7/21/08 		19
  Link   AT&T Throws Party to Support Dems Who Voted to Grant Telecoms Immunity for Illegal Domestic Wiretapping
Democracy Now! goes from the streets to the suites to try and cover one of the first of over 1,200 parties during the Democratic National Convention ... Democracy Now! August 25, 2008 		219
  Link   USA Patriot Act - Wikipedia
, commonly known as the Patriot Act, is a controversial Act of Congress that U.S. President George W. Bush signed into law on October 26, 2001. Wikipedia; Posted on August 19, 2008 		157
  Link   Center for National Security Studies
The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) was first enacted in 1978 (Public Law 95-511) and later amended by the Patriot Act. ... Posted on August 17, 2008 		159
  Link   U.S. May Ease Police Spy Rules
The Justice Department has proposed a new domestic spying measure that would make it easier for state and local police to collect intelligence about Americans ... Washington Post; August 16, 2008 		154
  Link   Democrats Legalize Bush's Crimes
Nancy Pelosi claims that a key positive feature of the new wiretap "compromise" is that the bill reaffirms that the President must follow the law ... Truthout; June 20, 2008 		80
  Link   Laptop seizures - hello, Fourth Amendment?
For at least the last six years, federal border agents have been taking travelers' laptop computers away from them to be searched without any evidence of the travelers' wrongdoing. SF Chron; August 10, 2008 		61
  Link   Colorado “Fusion Center” to Step Up Intelligence Gathering During DNC
Federal and state law enforcement officials in Colorado plan to increase intelligence operations during the Democratic National Convention in Denver and run a fusion center ... Dem. Now!; 8/1/08 		19
  Link   FISA Debate Gets Underway In The House
The House debate about the FISA law is underway. The House has capped debate at just one hour. TPMMuckraker; June 20, 2008 		143
  Link   Who's Watching the Spies?
The White House has rejected ... Nancy Pelosi's pick for a newly created U.S. government civil liberties board--a move that may doom efforts to get the panel up and running ... Newsweek; July 9, 2008 		154
  Link   Muslim ex-charity has evidence it was spied on
An Islamic organization made a last-ditch attempt Tuesday to challenge President Bush's wiretapping program in court ... SF Chron; July 30, 2008 		122
  Link   Nancy Pelosi, How Do You Plead?
Nancy Pelosi was secretly briefed on torture many, many years ago, and yet did nothing to stop those unlawful programs. Indeed, she egged the torturers on. OpEdNews.com; July 21, 2008 		110
  Link   Pelosi Passes the Buck; Gore Let Off the Hook at Netroots Nation
It’s no surprise that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi got a tough reception at Netroots Nation – as bloggers asked about the Iraq War, impeachment and (of course) FISA. Beyond Chron; July 21, 2008 		126
  Link   Nutroots are not Happy with Nancy Pelosi
... : (the agresssive progressive) The next subject was the FISA bill. Speaker Pelosi said that Democrats will revisit the issue in the next Congress ... Thespis; July 20, 2008 		99
  Link   House OKs bill for more access to spy secrets
The House on Wednesday passed legislation governing next year's intelligence budget that demands lawmakers be given greater access to the nation's most closely held secrets. SF Chron; July 17, 2008 		76
  Link   Center for Democracy and Technology
Official website. Posted on July 16, 2008. 		71
  Link   ACLU: Terrorist Watch list Hits 1 Million Names
The nation's terrorist watch list has hit one million names, according to a tally maintained by the American Civil Liberties Union based upon the government's own reported numbers for the size of the list. ACLU; 7/14/08 		116
  Link   ACLU Challenges Unconstitutional Spying Law
In July 2008, Congress capitulated to the White House's demands and scare tactics by passing the FISA Amendments Act of 2008, giving the NSA even more power to spy on Americans without warrants. ACLU; Posted 7/15/08 		125
  Link   R.I.P. -- the 4th Amendment & the Rule of Law
Rumor is circulating the ... Nancy Pelosi, is making a play to put Karl Rove above the law. Reportedly she is saying he should not be held in contempt ... Scoop; July 14, 2008 		114
  Link   Choose Your Adversaries Wisely
Earlier this week, the Senate passed a really lousy law. I mean a real dog. The sort of law that you usually only see in a police state. It’s not as bad as the Alien and Sedition Acts, but ... FCJ; July 12, 2008 		79
  Link   Bush signs contentious wiretap bill
President Bush signed a bill Thursday that overhauls rules about government eavesdropping and grants immunity to telecommunications companies ... AP; July 11, 2008 		4886
  Link   Pelosi canny, but still in a bit of trouble
... this former opponent of the Iraq war negotiated a deal to fund it for another year. Then, this longtime defender of civil liberties compromised on a surveillance bill ... Daily Democrat; July 11, 2008 		90
  Link   Bush wins passage of spy bill
Pres. Bush won final congressional approval on ... of a bill granting liability protection to telecommunication companies that took part in the warrantless domestic spying program he began ... Reuters; 7/9/2008 		105
  Link   Compromising the Constitution
Congress has been far too compliant as Pres. Bush undermined the Bill of Rights and the balance of powers. It now has a chance to undo some of that damage — if it has the courage ... NYT; July 8, 2008 		222
  Link   Stand up, Senators
Warrantless wiretapping of Americans should outrage Congress ... . But, in a display of political expediency, the Senate is about to bless it, following a similar cave-in by the House last month. SF Chron; 7/9/08 		165
  Link   Electronic Frontier Foundation
When our freedoms in the networked world come under attack, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is the first line of defense. ... Linked on July 7, 2008 		70
  Link   AT&T Whistleblower Urges Against Immunity for Telecoms in Bush Spy Program
We speak with Mark Klein, a technician with AT&T for over twenty-two years. Democracy Now! July 7, 2008 		267
  Link   The political establishment and telecom immunity -- why it matters
Nancy Soderberg was deputy national security advisor and an ambassador to the United Nations in the Clinton administration. Today, she has an Op-Ed in the Los Angeles Times defending the FISA bill ... Salon.com; 7/5/08 		171
  Link   Calitics: Exclusivity Argument Goes Up in Flames
The main talking point that ... Dianne Feinstein and Nancy Pelosi have used to claim the necessity of the FISA capitulation is that under this law, the FISA Court will be the "exclusive means" ... Calitics; July 3, 2008 		113
  Link   U.S. House Passes Wiretap Bill Protecting Telecoms
The U.S. House Friday overwhelmingly approved a sweeping new surveillance law that effectively would shield telecommunications companies from privacy lawsuits ... Free Internet Press; June 20, 2008 		135
  Link   Pelosi Says More Debate on FISA Would Be ‘Healthy’
It would be “healthy” if the Senate spends more time debating an overhaul of domestic-spying laws now moving through Congress, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Tuesday. WSJ; June 24, 2008 		20
  Link   Time magazine uncritically prints Nancy Pelosi's "justifications" for the FISA "compromise"
The article has only one purpose -- to depict the spying "compromise" as a brilliant and heroic centrist masterstroke by Nancy Pelosi to protect us from Terrorists. OEN; June 23, 2008 		91
  Link   Chris Dodd’s Speech and a Glimmer of Hope for Stopping the FISA Bill
Back in December, Harry Reid’s plan was to have the Senate quickly pass the Cheney/Rockefeller FISA bill before the Senate recessed for Christmas. Salon.com; June 25, 2008 		19
  Link   Feingold to Filibuster Warrantless Wiretapping Bill
Russ Feingold ... will take steps this week to filibuster a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) reform proposal that provides retroactive immunity to telecommunications corporations. Madison Capital Times; 6/25/08 		109
  Link   Telecom Donations Tied to FISA Vote
... Pelosi ... made clear that she opposed telecom immunity, but was forced to accept a compromise for the sake of passing a bill. The immunity language was a concession to the White House ... Wash Independent; 6/24/08 		202
  Link   Sen. Russ Feingold weighs in on the Telecom Bill on Dem. Now!
“One of the Greatest Intrusions, Potentially, on the Rights of Americans Protected Under the 4th Amendment”–Sen. Feingold Blasts Telecom Spy Bill; Democracy Now! June 24, 2008 		215
  Link   Congressional leaders OK eavesdropping deal
After a yearlong battle over U.S. wiretapping laws, House and Senate leaders announced a compromise Thursday on legislation to expand the government's eavesdropping authorities ... SF Gate; June 20, 2008 		70
  Link   Have You Had Enough Yet??? Have you had enough yet? Democrats Hand Telecomms Immunity
On the heels of Nancy Pelosi’s House giving George Bush more money than he asked for to fund the occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan ..., Nancy Pelosi’s House grants blanket immunity to the telecomms. FCJ; 6/20/08 		126
  Link   Bush Gives Dems STDs
The least popular, most lawless president in American history took to the Rose Garden today to thank congressional Democrats for having unprotected political sex with him. Huffington Post; June 20, 2008 		192
  Link   Unintended Consequences: Spitzer Nabbed
When Congress passed the Patriot Act in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks, law-enforcement agencies hailed it as a powerful tool to help track down the confederates of Osama bin Laden. Newsweek; March 24, 2008 		256
  Link   House to have secret session for surveillance debate
The House of Representatives agreed to go into a secret session Thursday night to debate revisions to federal surveillance laws, closing off the chamber for the first time since 1983 ... CNN; March 13, 2008 		238
  Link   Citizens vs. spies
A Bay Area man and a San Francisco nonprofit are at the center of an epic, ongoing battle over privacy rights involving all three branches of the United States government. SFBG; February 20, 2008 		145
  Link   The real FISA problem
EDITORIAL It's no secret that the nation's telecommunications companies have been spying on Americans without any sort of legal warrants. SFBG; February 20, 2008 		150
  Link   Down With Tyranny -- Blogspot
Watching AG Michael Mukasey evade the obvious fact that waterboarding is torture-- and the reluctance of Democrats to press him-- I was reminded of how the first Pres. Bush got away with. February 1, 2008 		142
  Link   A showdown on spying
First torture and now wiretaps. The White House followed last week's refusal to rule out waterboarding by bullying the Senate into widening a wiretap program. SF Chron; February 14, 2008 		189
  Link   House Adopts 15-day Extension Of Protect America Act
With a partisan stalemate in the Senate holding up any revision to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, the House today adopted a 15-day extension of the Protect America Act ... CBS News; January 29, 2008 		301
  Link   Admiral wants to shut Guantanamo
The chief of the U.S. military said Sunday he favors closing the prison here as soon as possible because he believes negative publicity worldwide about treatment of terrorist suspects is damaging. AP; January 14, 2008 		106
  Link   UC Berkeley Lawyer Who Justified Torture of Detainees Sued
A man who was held in isolation for more than three years before being tried and convicted of aiding terrorists filed suit Friday against the UC Berkeley law professor and former Justice Department official ... SF Chron; 1/5/08 		109
  Link   2003 Letter Told CIA: Trashing Tapes Would Harm Image
More than two years before the CIA destroyed interrogation videotapes, top officials were urged to preserve them by Jane Harmon ... Los Angeles Times; January 4, 2008 		126
  Link   FBI Effort Will Build Biggest Biometric Database
The FBI is embarking on a $1 billion effort to build the world’s largest computer database of peoples’ physical characteristics. SJ Mercury News; December 27, 2007 		115
  Link   Creeping Fascism: From Nazi Germany to Post 9/11 America
Americans today are seeing the same sheepish submissiveness that characterized Germany after the burning of the Reichstag. AlterNet; December 29, 2007 		206
  Link   Lawyer urges judge to open CIA tapes inquiry
A lawyer for a group of terrorism suspects ... told a court on Friday that trusting the Justice Department ... would amount to putting the fox in charge of the hen house. Reuters; December 21, 2007 		147
  Link   White House defends response on CIA tapes
The White House on Wednesday defended its response to disclosures about the CIA's destruction of videotapes that showed harsh interrogations of two terrorism suspects. Reuters; December 19, 2007 		135
  Link   9/11 Panel Study Finds That C.I.A. Withheld Tapes
A review of classified documents by former members of the Sept. 11 commission shows that the panel made repeated and detailed requests to the Central Intelligence Agency in 2003 and 2004 for documents ...NYT; 12/22/07 		115
  Link   CIA to Hand Over Videotape Docs After Congress Threatens Subpoenas
The CIA has announced it will begin handing over documents to Congress about the destruction of videotapes showing the interrogation of two prisoners held in secret jails. Democracy Now! December 21, 2007 		204
  Link   It's Time to Clean the House
Nancy Pelosi should resign as Speaker of the House of Representatives. Since she won’t, I hope the voters in her liberal California district throw her out next November. Common Dreams; December 11, 2007 		139
  Link   Pelosi and Torture
That House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has been a disappointing leader for House Democrats, few serious observers of the congressional condition will deny. The Nation; December 10, 2007 		121
  Link   Was Pelosi aware of CIA's tactics?
... If Pelosi ... [has] another version of these events, it's time to come clean. As matters now stand, [she] not only concealed torture but, more significantly, ... abetted the waterboarding of our democracy. SF Chron; 12/12/07 		122
  Link   Agency official's role in CIA tape case probed
At a conference in El Paso, in mid-August, Rep. Silvestre Reyes of Texas, the Dem. chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, heaped praise on CIA agent Jose Rodriguez Jr. SF Chron.; December 10, 2007 		121
  Link   Ex-CIA Agent: Waterboarding OK'ed at Top
The CIA's waterboarding of a top al-Qaida figure was approved at the top levels of the U.S. government, a former CIA agent said Tuesday as Congress grilled agency director Gen. Michael Hayden. SF Gate; 12/11/07 		112
  Link   Some in Congress learned of waterboarding in '02
In 9/02, 4 members of Congress, including Nancy Pelosi, were given a virtual tour of the CIA's overseas detention sites and the harsh techniques interrogators it had devised to try to make prisoners talk. SF Gate; 12/09/07 		140
  Link   Dems demand Justice Dept. memos that OKd use of harsh interrogations
Democratic lawmakers assailed the Justice Dept.l on Thursday for issuing secret memos that authorized harsh CIA interrogation techniques. SF Chron; October 5, 2007 		151
  Link   Congress Discloses Intel Earmarks for First Time
In a break with tradition, Congress has revealed close to $80 million in earmarks boosting spy technology and training as part of the 2008 defense appropriations bill. The Hill; November 24, 2007 		91
  Link   ACLU Statement on RESTORE ACT, ACLU Urges Congress to Include Individual Warrants for Americans
Today the Democratic leadership unveiled the RESTORE Act. What follows are the ACLU’s comments on that draft. ACLU; October 9, 2007 		103
  Link   Pelosi Says She Was Never Briefed ‘About The Secret Memos’ Authorizing CIA Torture
Recently, after the NYTimes revealed that Bush gave the CIA secret approval in 2005 to use harsh interrogation techniques, WH Spokeperson Dana Perino said members of Congress had been “fully briefed." Think Progress; 10-09-07 		23
  Link   Judge Rules Provisions in Patriot Act to Be Illegal
A federal judge in Oregon ruled Wednesday that crucial parts of the USA Patriot Act were not constitutional because they allowed federal surveillance and searches ... without demonstrating probable cause. NYTimes; 09-27-07 		225
  Link   Gonzales's work expanded power of the presidency
In the aftermath of Alberto Gonzales' resignation and the U.S. attorney firings scandal, many have forgotten about the role he played in creating profoundly troubling policies. SF Chron; August 28, 2007 		290
  Link   Congress to probe domestic spy satellite use
The Department of Homeland Security's top intelligence, privacy and civil rights officials will be called before Congress next week ... The Raw Story; August 28, 2007. 		86
  Link   Check out this ACLU ad in the Chronicle ...
When Democratic leaders (Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi) follow along with Bush's plans to eavesdrop on Americans, it's BAAAAAAD ... SF Chron; 8/28/2007 		117
  Link   I Know What You Did Last Summer
On the first weekend in August, the U.S. government shredded the 4th Amendment, the one requiring court-approved "probable cause" before Americans can be searched or spied upon. Newsweek; August 16, 2007. 		115
  Link   National Lawyers Guild Calls on Congress to Repeal Warrantless Domestic Surveillance
Congress put its stamp of approval on the unconstitutional wiretapping of Americans by amending the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) in the "Protect America Act of 2007." Common Dreams; 08-14-07. 		123
  Link   House Passes Changes in Eavesdropping Program
Under pressure from Pres. Bush, the House gave final approval Saturday to changes in a terrorism surveillance program, despite serious objections from many Democrats. NYTimes; August 5, 2007. 		117
  Link   Bush Urges Congress to Pass Wiretap Bill
Congress is rushing to expand the military’s authority to wiretap phone calls and e-mails on US soil. The Bush administration, warning that terrorists may soon attack again, is pressuring lawmakers to approve the legislation before their August rec 		142
 

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