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AP CEO calls government seizure of phone records 'unconstitutional,' says chill already felt
Associated PressWASHINGTON (AP) — The Associated Press' president and chief executive says the government's secret seizure of two months of reporters' phone records has already had a chilling effect on newsgathering, a week after the subpoenas were revealed...Tags: Death of Osama bin Laden (2011), Meet the Press (tv program), National Government, Parties and Movements, Central Intelligence Agency
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AP CEO calls records seizure unconstitutional
WASHINGTON (AP) — The president and chief executive officer of The Associated Press on Sunday called the government's secret seizure of two months of reporters' phone records "unconstitutional" and said the news cooperative had not ruled out legal...
Tags: Death of Osama bin Laden (2011), Eric Holder, Meet the Press (tv program), Politics, National Government
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U.S. homeland security notice weighs on OSI Systems' new contracts
Reuters(Reuters) - OSI Systems Inc said the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has issued it a "proposed debarment notice" related to privacy concerns over its full-body passenger scanners used in airports, limiting the company's ability to sign new federal...Tags: U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Transportation Security Administration, OSI Systems Incorporated
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Scale of government's AP records seizure surprises many
WASHINGTON — Three years ago, the Obama administration brought criminal charges under the Espionage Act against Thomas Drake, an Air Force veteran and intelligence expert at the National Security Agency in Maryland. He was not accused of aiding...
Tags: Prosecution, National Government, Justice System, Central Intelligence Agency, Freedom of the Press
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It's news, not espionage
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration has no business rummaging through journalists' phone records, perusing their emails and tracking their movements in an attempt to keep them from gathering news. This heavy-handed business isn't chilling, it's...Tags: Prosecution, National Government, Daniel Ellsberg, Central Intelligence Agency, Justice System
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Spotlighting a terrorism risk, and profiting
WASHINGTON — Over the last decade, former Navy Secretary Richard J. Danzig, a prominent lawyer, presidential advisor and biowarfare consultant to the Pentagon and the Department of Homeland Security, has urged the government to counter what he...
Tags: Vaccines, Terrorism, Laws, U.S. House Committee on Homeland Security, National Government
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Pointing to threat, pulling in profit
Tribune Washington BureauWASHINGTON -- Over the last decade, former Navy Secretary Richard J. Danzig, a prominent lawyer, presidential advisor and biowarfare consultant to the Pentagon and the Department of Homeland Security, has urged the government to counter what he called a...Tags: Vaccines, Terrorism, U.S. House Committee on Homeland Security, Laws, National Government
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AP case fuels complaints on Obama whistle-blower policies
The Justice Department's secret review of Associated Press telephone records gives advocates for federal employees one more reason to doubt the Obama administration's full commitment to protecting whistleblowers, particularly those in national security...Tags: News Media, Eric Holder, Canterbury, Prosecution, Politics
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Editorial: Conservatives should lead on immigration
If President Barack Obama delivers on his promise to sign meaningful immigration legislation in his second term, it could be because he wisely stayed out of the way while Sen. Marco Rubio, a Florida Republican with his eye on the White House, did the...
Tags: Republican Party, Migration, Personal Data Collection, Politics, Elections
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House bill to have more stringent immigrant controls: aides
ReutersWASHINGTON (Reuters) - A bipartisan plan brokered in the House of Representatives will be tougher on illegal immigrants living in the United States than a Senate counterpart, congressional aides said on Friday. But it fails to address the difficult issue...Tags: Republican Party, Illegal Immigrants, Migration, Politics, Barack Obama
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House lawmakers reach tentative deal to revamp immigration
ReutersWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Prospects for passage of a major immigration bill improved on Thursday when a bipartisan group of lawmakers in the House of Representatives declared they had reached a tentative deal, resolving disputes that had threatened to...Tags: U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Illegal Immigrants, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Elections, John Carter
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U.S. authorities seize accounts of major Bitcoin operator
ReutersBy Brett Wolf ST. LOUIS, May 17 (Thomson Reuters Accelus) - U.S. authorities have seized two accounts linked to a major operator in the booming Bitcoin digital currency market, Tokyo-based exchange Mt. Gox. The move may prevent the firm from facilitating...Tags: Computer Crime, Bitcoin, Thomson Corporation, Crime, Law and Justice
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