Administration Set to Use New Spy Program in US (read)

  The military is using the FBI to skirt legal restrictions on domestic surveillance to obtain private records of Americans' Internet service providers, financial institutions and telephone companies, the ACLU said (read)

  Spy-in-the-sky drone sets sights on Miami (read)



U.S. Terror Watch List Surpasses 900,000 Names, ACLU Estimates. (read)

2007 Spying Said to Cost $50 Billion. (read)

  The U.S. House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved a bill saying that anyone offering an open Wi-Fi connection to the public must report illegal images including "obscene" cartoons and drawings. (read)

  Firefighters taking new roles as "anti-terrorist" eyes of the US government. (read)

   More Than 755,000 on US Terrorist Watch List. (read)

   Verizon Says It Turned Over Data Without Court Orders. (read)

   The American Civil Liberties Union said that newly uncovered documents show that the Pentagon secretly sent hundreds of letters seeking the financial records of private citizens without court approval. (read)

   Flying surveillance devices at Sept. 15 Mass March and Die-in. (read) 

   Activist Silenced for Fear of Surveillance. (read) 

   Republicans pushed 'bogus terror threat' to expand wiretapping laws. (read) 

   The FBI spied on the widow of Martin Luther King Jr. for several years after his assassination in 1968, according to newly released documents that reveal the FBI worried about her following in the footsteps of the slain civil rights icon. Coretta Scott King might try to tie "the anti-Vietnam movement to the civil rights movement" according to some of the nearly 500 pages of intelligence files, which go on to show how the FBI trailed King at public appearances and kept close tabs on her travel. (read)   
    American Spy Satellite to Snoop on U.S. Citizens (read)   
 
   US Doles Out Millions for Street Cameras - not just big cities, but places like Madison, Wis., Liberty, Kan. (population 95) and Scottsbluff, Neb. (population 14,000, where police used a $180,000 Homeland Security Department grant to purchase four closed-circuit digital cameras and two monitors) (read) (listen)

   You Have No Rights - Matthew Rothschild, editor of The Progressive explains how our president became a "medieval king," and why your civil liberties are in greater danger than ever. (read) (listen) 

  The FBI is gathering information about Americans to help search for potential terrorists, insurance cheats and crooked pharmacists. (read) 

  Judges OK warrantless monitoring of Web use. (read) 

The Ongoing War on the Left:


  CIA to reveal 'skeletons' - Agency to declassify records of abuses, from domestic spying to assassination attempts. (read) 

  500,000 names: FBI Terror Watch List 'Out of Control'. (read)

  FBI Data Mining Program Raises Eyebrows in Congress. (read)

  GAO Says Homeland Security is Breaking Privacy Laws. (read)

  Record Number of Secret Warrants in 2006. (read)

  Wal-Mart has hired a number of former CIA, FBI and Justice Department officials to create a sophisticated counter surveillance team to spy on its employees. (read)

   NYPD spied on convention protest planners (read)

   FBI misused Patriot Act to obtain information on citizens (read)

   US Military Spied on Hundreds of Antiwar Demos. (read)

   Military Is Expanding Its Intelligence Role in US- The Pentagon has been using a little-known power to obtain banking and credit records of hundreds of Americans. (read)

   Feds Pushing for Internet Records. The federal government wants your Internet provider to keep track of every Web site you visit. (read)

   Bush Signing Statement Claims Power to Open Americans' Mail (read)

   FBI taps cell phone mic as eavesdropping tool (read)

   NYCLU Report Documents Rapid Proliferation Of Video Surveillance Cameras, Calls For Public Oversight To Prevent Abuses (read)

   The federal government plans this month to launch the nation's first airport screening system that takes potentially revealing X-ray photos of travelers in an effort to find bombs and other weapons (read)

   U.S. government quietly rates millions of travellers for terrorism potential (read)

   U.S. near the bottom in privacy study - the U.S. was determined to be an "extensive surveillance society,” (read)

   Congress Considering Strip Searching Students (read)

   Gonzales: ISPs must keep records on users (read)

   IRS goes after church for anti-war sermon (read)

   Miami airport may train all 35,000 workers to spot suspicious people - even Starbucks coffee servers may be trained to watch travelers for suspicious movements (read)

   House approves U.S.-Mexican border fence (read)

   BYU Professor put on leave over 9/11 claim (read)

   "Judge Rules Bush's Surveillance Program Unconstitutional" (read)

   "FBI plans new Net-tapping push" (read)

   "The Bush administration has been quietly tracking people suspected of bankrolling terrorism through a secret program that gives the government access to a massive data base of international financial transactions" (read)

  "A massive government database contains the phone records of tens of millions of Americans" (read)

  "U.S. can open private mail in "terrorism" fight" (read)

  "U.S. Obtains Internet Users' Search Records" (read)

  "FBI Investigated 3,501 People Without Warrants" (read)

  "Unrepentant Bush reveals he ordered secret wiretaps in U.S." (read)

   "Spy Agency Watching Americans From Space" (read)

  "U.S. News has identified nearly a dozen cases in which city and county police ... have surveilled or harassed animal-rights and antiwar protesters, union activists, and even library patrons surfing the Web" (read)