Tag Archives: usapa
Hey remember the USA PATRIOT Act?
The ACLU has made a useful post talking about the Department of Justice’s released statistics about their surveillance activities. Surveillance is up. Section 215 is sunsetting. Osama is dead. What now? The government more than quadrupled its use of secret … Continue reading
We have always been at war with the USA PATRIOT Act
Congress Extends Library Provision of Patriot Act to 2011. Grar.
America’s Most Dangerous Librarians
Mother Jones had a good article (print version) about the Connecticut librarians [“radical bookworms” in MJ’s terms, oy!] who fought the USA PATRIOT Act. It’s a little overblown, in my opinion, but has a good sequence of events. Worth understanding … Continue reading
Federal court rules USA PATRIOT Act’s National Security Letters unconstitutional
The EFF has just reported that the gag order provisions in the USA PATRIOT Act concerning National Security Letters are unconstitutional. This is NOT the Connecticut case, but a related one concerning the records of an internet service provider. Here … Continue reading
USA PATRIOT Act gag orders allows people to spread falsehoods about USAPA itself
One of the things that’s so harmful about the USA PATRIOT Act’s gag order, in my opinion, is that the people who have the best firsthand information about it are the ones that are least free to talk about it. … Continue reading
