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American Bar Association president Michael S. Greco said Friday that American civil liberties were under stress in a time of conflict, but that policymakers should resist the temptation to "take shortcuts with the Constitution." He made his...

US Sen. Arlen Specter (R-PA) , chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said Wednesday that he is working on legislation that would require court supervision of President Bush's domestic surveillance program ....

Former US President Jimmy Carter said Monday that President Bush overstepped his constitutional powers by authorizing the NSA's domestic surveillance program . The former president was also critical of Monday's testimony ...

US Senate Judiciary Committee hearings on the Bush administration's controversial domestic surveillance program opened Monday with testimony from US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales after senators argued over whether or not he should...

Current and former intelligence officials and private sector sources, speaking anonymously, have said that the National Security Agency warrantless surveillance program monitoring communication coming from outside the US to US residents has yielded few actionable results,...

Michael J. Kelly : "President Truman used American involvement in the Korean War as justification for seizing privately owned U.S. steel mills when a labor strike threatened to cripple that industry and bring production to a...

JURIST Guest Columnist Susan Herman of Brooklyn Law School says that reauthorization of the USA PATRIOT Act is up for debate again in Congress just as revelations about the NSA domestic surveillance program remind us why executive power needs to...

US President George W. Bush on Wednesday defended his authorization of the National Security Agency (NSA) warrantless domestic surveillance program in a visit to the agency’s headquarters, saying that “the work they do is...

US President George Bush on Monday defended his authorization of the domestic surveillance program employed by the National Security Agency (NSA) , saying that he was acting under a Congressional mandate to protect the US...

Judges who serve on the US Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) met with officials from the Department of Justice Monday for a closed-door briefing on the president's decision to allow warrantless domestic eavesdropping [JURIST news...