Posts Tagged ‘warrantless’

Nancy Pelosi’s culture of corruption – Jane Harman

April 22nd, 2009 | No Comments

This one is getting pretty wild pretty quick: Rep. Jane Harman, a California Democrat long involved in intelligence issues, was overheard on a 2005 National Security Agency wiretap telling a suspected Israeli agent that she would lobby the Justice Department to reduce espionage-related charges against two former officials of the American Israeli Public Affairs Committee. [...]

The politics of warrantless wiretaps

August 3rd, 2007 | No Comments

Not too terribly long ago, we had a major todo over warrantless wiretaps. First there was a lot of rhetoric circling around this “abuse of the Constitution”. In March, 2006, Russ Feingold decided to make it political. He offered a bill to the Senate to censure the President over the use of warrantless wiretaps. Only [...]