- ACLU lawsuit,
wiretap without a warrant on U.S. soil. and
NSA lawsuit
- Center
for Constitutional Rights New York, letter to Senate Intelligence
Committee,
- CommonDreams
search terms: lawsuit, AT&T, submitted under seal, illegal electronic
surveillance, Negroponte, Lt. General Keith Alexander (director of NSA),
state secrets privilege used to deny info on NSA, phone and internet records
turned over illegally without a warrant or suspicion of wrongdoing. class
action,
- CommonDreams
"In a 72-page written
ruling (.pdf), U.S. District Court Chief Judge Vaughn Walker rejected
the government's argument that merely allowing the case to proceed would
cause critical harm to U.S. national security.
- Constant
Pated, blog
Narus STA-6400, state secrets, prove Bush broke the law.
- John Conyers
- CounterPunch,
Bush wiretaps to identify whistleblowers.
- Dailykos
Narus ST-6400
- Detroit
Free Press "U.S. District Judge Anna Diggs
Taylor declared the administration's secret spying program unconstitutional
and blocked the government from intercepting calls into this country from
abroad that might involve terrorists without getting warrants from the
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court.
- Electronic Frontier
Foundation working to protect civil and free
speech, search AT&T lawsuit.
- Huffington
Post NSA, amdocs, Hayden and Hayden
"the sudden resignation of Goss as the Foggo sex scandal comes creeping
centerwise provided the Department of Defense its best-yet opportunity to
finally seize its long-time intelligence and covert operations rival for
itself"
- Indymedia
- The
Nation History
and structure of global telegraphic surveillance
- NSAWatch
formerly EchelonWatch, resources, surveillance networks, documents.
- OpEdNews
"Amdocs, Hayden, CIA, phone records, database,
billing data, Israeli-based company, 9/11, students, Bobby Ray Inman,
AT&T, BellSouth, Verizon, legality of surveillance, Sen. Spector
- RawStory,
- Salon
Israeli art students, DEA, Amdocs searchable file
- TimesOnline.UK
"A report in the newspaper USA Today, which
claimed that since the 9/11 attacks the National Security Agency (NSA) has
secretly collected the records of billions of domestic calls, also cast
doubt on the confirmation prospects for General Michael Hayden, Mr Bush’s
choice to head the CIA"
- TomPaine
search: Bush's NSA Spying Defense
- Wayne
Madsen Report, exclusive1
- Wired
News, Mark
Klein, "Whistleblower
Outs NSA Spy Room ... Klein's job eventually included connecting
internet circuits to a splitting cabinet that led to the secret room. During
the course of that work, he learned from a co-worker that similar cabinets
were being installed in other cities, including Seattle, San Jose, Los
Angeles and San Diego."
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- BBC
George W Bush personally stopped an inquiry into a controversial programme
to monitor the phone calls and e-mails of Americans, a top official has
said. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said internal investigators wanted
to look at the role justice department lawyers had played in drafting the
programme
- Findlaw,
Dean, Bush's impeachability..
- search terms: Amdocs, Hayden, CIA, phone
records, database, billing data, Israeli-based company,
- Use NSA data to mine all of Karl Rove's
phone calls....right....
- search terms: Hayden was architect of
Bush's domestic spying program. The Federal Intelligence Security Act (FISA)
is prohibited in monitoring people inside the U.S. without express
permission of a federal judge. Nixon era controls. 2005 Bush
issued executive order undermining FISA.
- State secrets privilege defense says a
lawsuit must be dismissed if it can't be litigated without the risk of
exposing military secrets. But there is political fallout from this.
- How does all this tie back to Israel
spying: Jonathon Pollard, Pentagon, Douglas Feith, Mega,
- Jurist,
legal news and research, Bush used argument that warrantless was implicitly
authorized by the resolution for the Authorization for the Use of Military
Force in Afghanistan, but....more
- Rense
All US Phone Call Records And Billing Done In Israel - Part 2 Carl
Cameron Investigates FoxNews.com 12-13-1
- Schneier
search terms: Operation Shamrock, FISA, FISC, and:legal links
- Yahoo,
BellSouth denies working with NSA. Included in $200 billion lawsuit
- Wikipedia
 - go to Amdocs
- search internet: Tony Snow,
FoxNews, Carl Cameron, Israeli Art Students.
 also
see Jonathan
Pollard.com
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- Are Republicans who oppose Bush
warrantless spying are an irrelevant
impotent group?
- AT&T lawsuit
$200 billion
- Amdocs
Israel, phone records database, Hayden
- BellSouth
- Cato
Institute
- Defense
Tech Telcos Deny NSA Ties - and Allowed to Lie?
- FCC, won't
investigate warrantless wiretapping because Bush effectively used the State
Secrets defense to shut them down.
- GOP
search
- GOP
Insight search
- Haaretz
search
- Heritage.org
"....this critical counterterrorism effort isn't intrusive, illegal or
unnecessary...? commentary. see Smith v. Maryland 1979.
- Markle Foundation
- MiddleEast Info
discussion
- Middle East Intelligence
Bulletin Daniel Pipes
- Narus Semantic Traffic Analysis
- Narus & Amdocs more
below
- Narus
Board of Directors: William T. Crowell (DARPA, Markle Foundation, Cylink,
Deputy Director of Operations NSA, Presidents Export Council on
Encryption. Also Yogen K. Dalal (Mayfield Fund), Andrew Kau (Walden
International), Greg Oslan (CNET Inc, AT&T), Tony Pantuso (
NeoCarta, GE), Shahan D. Soghikian (JP Morgan Partners).
- National Institute for
Public Policy, Iran policy
- New
York Times NSA executive order authorizing data mining of phone calls
and file.
- TMCnet
Amdocs, Israeli Business Arena Via Thomson Dialog NewsEdge,
- Topix
Amdocs DOX page
- US-Israel.org
- US
News & World Report , Gergen rebuttal to "The Israel
Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy"
- NSA
- Verizon
- Walden Media, Walden International, Walden
Israel Ventures II, Walden VC II, Ambex
- Whitehouse
Bush
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- New
York Times and file
A senior government official, granted anonymity to speak for
publication about the classified program, confirmed on Friday that the
security agency (NSA) had
access to records of most telephone calls in the United States.
The official said the call records were used for the limited purpose
of identifying regular contacts of "known bad guys." The
official would not discuss the details of the program, including the
identity of companies involved. lawsuit
(EFFsuit) see Amdocs / Narus
- New
York Times and file
In 2004, more than 80 percent of the 463 billion domestic calls made
in the United States were local, according to the Federal
Communications Commission. Verizon said yesterday that "phone
companies do not even make records of local calls in most cases
because the vast majority of customers are not billed per call for
local calls.". but see Narus
- New
York Times Because federal law protects the privacy of phone
records in the absence of warrants, companies providing such records
could face legal action. Yesterday in Manhattan, a class-action suit
filed against Verizon after the USA Today
article appeared was expanded to include BellSouth and AT&T as
defendants, The Associated Press reported. It asked $200 billion in
damages.
- ACLU
"The American Civil Liberties Union today strongly condemned a
new proposal drafted by Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen
Specter (R-PA) that embraces the president’s claims of inherent
power to secretly wiretap Americans without meaningful checks. Also
today, the organization renewed its request to the Justice Department’s
Inspector General to open an investigation into the involvement of the
department in the warrantless spying on Americans by the National
Security Agency .... Specter’s new draft would replace a
bill he had previously introduced, S.2453, the National Security
Surveillance Act of 2006. The new version would pardon the president
for authorizing the warrantless wiretapping of Americans, in violation
of current criminal and intelligence laws. Specifically, the new bill
would amend the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) and the
criminal code by allowing wiretapping at the direction of the
president outside of those existing laws. This move would create a
retroactive exception to criminal liability when warrantless
wiretapping is done at the president’s direction under a claim of
inherent authority."
- ACLU
v. NSA lawsuit: "The ACLU is suing the National Security
Agency for violating the U.S. Constitution. The illegal NSA spying
program authorized by President Bush just after September 11, 2001,
allows the NSA to intercept vast quantities of the international
telephone and Internet communications of innocent Americans without
court approval. Without a system of checks and balances, the
government can monitor any phone call or e-mail they want, and they
can collect and disseminate any data they find however they like. Just
knowing that the government is spying without cause on innocent
Americans sends a chilling message to all of us that our conversations
are not our own. The NSA's warrantless surveillance must end and
checks and balances be restored."
- Information
Clearing House on Fox
News (Carl Cameron) investigative report and Eric
Umansky BellSouth subcontracts with an Israeli company known as
Amdocs to handle its billing, as do several other U.S. phone
companies. In 2001, U.S. intelligence officials were on record as
saying that the information that Amdocs handled was so valuable that a
great deal could be learned if sophisticated data-mining techniques
were used against that information -- Brit? Information
Clearing House search Amdocs, Israeli art students.
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- Information
Clearing House Fox News has learned that the N.S.A has held
numerous classified conferences to warn the F.B.I. and C.I.A. how
Amdocs records could be used. At one NSA briefing, a diagram by the
Argon national lab was used to show that if the phone records are not
secure, major security breaches are possible.
- see Amdocs
/ Narus relationship
- Information
Clearing House, Carl Cameron report: Comverse works closely
with the Israeli government, and under special programs, gets
reimbursed for up to 50 percent of its research and development costs
by the Israeli Ministry of Industry and Trade. But investigators
within the DEA, INS and FBI have all told Fox News that to pursue or
even suggest Israeli spying through Comverse is considered career
suicide.
- Wired
Blog: One of the questions to emerge in press analysis of
Wednesday's court hearing in the EFF's case against AT&T is
whether the company might be legally immunized if the attorney general
wrote a secret letter authorizing the alleged internet wiretaps.
Declan McCullagh at CNET News.com parsed the AT&T lawyer's oral
arguments carefully, and concluded that the company may have received
certification from the Justice Department under this section of Title
18 U.S.C. 2511
- London's 7/7 where Visor Consulting headed up by the
ex-spokesman of Scotland Yard Peter Power was conducting drills of a
terrorist attack at the exact locations at the exact times where Verint
Systems (Comverse) was running security and hasn't released the
videos from inside the tube,
- CommonDreams
"FBI Plans New Net-Tapping Push" search terms: new
legislation that would require ISP's to create wiretapping hubs for
police surveillance...introduced by Sen. Mike DeWine, Ohio Republican,
CALEA
- CommonDreams
"In a 72-page written
ruling (.pdf), U.S. District Court Chief Judge Vaughn Walker
rejected the government's argument that merely allowing the case to
proceed would cause critical harm to U.S. national security.
search terms: Case 3:06-cv-00672-VRW Document 308, Northern
District of California, Tash Hepting et al Plaintiffs,v AT&T
CORPORATION, et al Defendants. AT&T Inc., violate First and
Fourth Amendments to the Constitution, by illegally intercepting,
disclosing, divulging and/or using plaintiffs' communications.
collaborating with the National Security Agency NSA in a massive
warrantless surveillance program. Section 109 of FISA, Section
802 of Title III of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of
1968, Section 705 of Title VII of the Communications Act of 1934,
Section 201 of Title II of the ECPA, Seciton 201 of the Stored
Commications Act, California Unfair Competition Law, Mark Klein, J.
Scott Marcus, state secrets privilege, Negroponte, Alexander,
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