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ACLU obtains document detailing CIA torture program

donal brown August 25, 2009

In response to an ACLU Freedom of Information Act lawsuit, the government turned over documents describing the interrogation techniques used by the CIA as late as 2007. -DB American Civil Liberties Union Press Release August 24, 2009 NEW YORK – The government today handed over to the American Civil Liberties Union a detailed official description of the CIA’s interrogation program. That document, a December 2004 CIA background paper sent to the Justice Department’s Office of Legal

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SLAPP case: Firm brings more notoriety to itself by appealing suit

donal brown August 25, 2009

A management firm who lost a case against a griper defending himself refuses to let the matter die, appealing the case to the Ninth Circuit. -DB Techdirt Commentary August 24, 2009 By Michael Masnick from the bad-idea dept Remember that discussion a few months ago about how most lawyers apparently understood the Streisand Effect, and knew better than to file bogus lawsuits against individuals putting up “gripes” sites about their business? We’ve already seen that’s

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Blogger intends to sue Google over outing

donal brown August 25, 2009

After Google revealed the identity of an anonymous blogger, her lawyer promised to sue citing the First Amendment right to speak anonymously. -DB Wired August 24, 2009 By Kim Zetter An anonymous blogger unmasked by Google last week following a court order has vowed to sue the internet giant for violating her privacy. Rosemary Port, who operated a blog called “Skanks in NYC,” was outed last week after failing in her efforts to quash a subpoena

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Obama continues Bush procedures on warrantless surveillance of U.S. citizens

donal brown August 25, 2009

The EFF legal director says the Obama administration has embraced the Bush policies on surveillance and more disturbingly the Bush principle that the executive branch is above the law. -DB ACS Blog Commentary August 17, 2009 By Cindy Cohn Both former NSA Director Michael Hayden and former Justice Department attorney John Yoo have taken to the editorial pages of major national newspapers this summer to defend the so-called Presidential Surveillance Program, the still-shadowy set of programs

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When threats pass muster as ‘true threats’

donal brown August 24, 2009

The executive director of the First Amendment Center says that impolite, heated, intemperate and even vile remarks are protected under the First Amendment but there is no sure legal protection for threats that name specific persons and carry a reasonable chance of being enacted in an immediate way. -DB First Amendment Center Commentary August 23, 2009 By Gene Policinski Saying that someone deserves to be killed certainly gets anyone’s attention. But when does saying that or

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