Thu 16 Feb 2012
A Brewing Battle Over Warrantless Wiretapping
Posted by k under Civil Liberties , DemocracyNo Comments
Jameel Jaffer
One of the hardest-fought civil liberties battles of the George W. Bush era involved the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), the post-Watergate statute that was meant to rein in domestic surveillance undertaken in the name of national security. It’s almost certain that we’ll have an equally hard-fought battle over FISA this year, both in the courts and in Congress. (more…)