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Exclusive — Rand Paul: We’re Going To Take NSA All The Way To Supreme Court. And Win – Breitbart

By innovate | May 7, 2015 by innovate

“We initiated a lawsuit on this over a year ago, and we are excited that the appeals court agrees with us,” Paul said. Now, they’re saying it’s illegal in that Section 215 of the PATRIOT Act doesn’t authorize that—that the government has gone too far—I think that’s a good first step. We want the Supreme Court to eventually rule on whether this is Constitutional or not. Our main complaint, or one of our main arguments…

DEA chief: US abandoned plan to track cars near gun shows

By innovate | January 28, 2015 by innovate

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Drug Enforcement Administration abandoned an internal proposal to use surveillance cameras for photographing vehicle license plates near gun shows in the United States to investigate gun-trafficking, the agency’s chief said Wednesday. DEA Administrator Michelle Leonhart said in a statement that the proposal memorialized in an employee’s email was only a suggestion, never authorized by her agency and never put into action. The AP also learned that the federal Bureau of Alcohol,…

NSA surveillance policies raise questions about the viability of the attorney-client privilege

By innovate | September 2, 2014 by innovate

The NSA responded to Silkenat on March 10 in a letter (PDF) from Alexander that expressed the agency’s own commitment to “the bedrock legal principle of attorney-client privilege” while appearing to acknowledge that there have been cases in which privileged communications between attorneys and clients have become available to the agency. “Given the inevitability of incidental collection of U.S. person information during the course of NSA’s lawful foreign intelligence mission—to include potentially privileged information—the issue…