Login | Register

310 online

Most Popular Choices

16

General News 4/16/2009 at 8:40 PM EDT

Problems in Wiretapping Bring Change

Quicklink Submitted By Sheila Samples No comments

Managing Editor
Sheila Samples

Become a Fan
(49 fans)

The discovery of the unauthorized wiretaps was first reported by the New York Times on its Web site. The Times, quoting unnamed intelligence officials, described the intercepts as a significant "overcollection" of domestic communications of Americans, one that went beyond limits set by Congress last year in approving an expansion of U.S. secret wiretaps.

Read the rest of the story HERE:

At www.washingtonpost.com

Rate It | View Ratings

Sheila Samples Social Media Pages:

Sheila Samples is an Oklahoma writer and a former civilian US Army Public Information Officer. She is a Managing Editor for OpEd News, and a regular contributor for a variety of Internet sites.

Related Topic(s): Congress; Domestic Spying; Domestic Surveillance-Wiretapping; Intelligence Agencies; Secret Ops; Wiretaps, Add Tags

Go To Commenting

The views expressed herein are the sole responsibility of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of this website or its editors.

Contact Author

Contact Editor

Author Page

View Authors' Articles

OpEdNews ~~depends upon~~ can't survive without your help.

If you value this article and the work of OpEdNews, please either Donate or Purchase a premium membership.

STAY IN THE KNOW
If you've enjoyed this, sign up for our daily or weekly newsletter to get lots of great progressive content.

To View Comments or Join the Conversation:

Congress Switchboard: 202-224-3121

To remove advertising from OpEd News, please become a premium member.

"You have something special and important here. Somehow you manage to teach and suggest and introduce the reader to concepts in a way that feels inclusive. Like, we're thinking about it together. Partly it might be because the subject, bottom-up, is innately understood by all of us and so it feels like you're stirring up stuff we already know. But also I think it's because you truly are practiced at connection consciousness and so it's natural for you (I'm guessing) to write about it with a desire to include us. As a reader I was learning more because it feels like you're inviting me to think with you."

Tsara Shelton, author

Art Instruction for People
At All Skill Levels

Top Content
in the Last 2 Days
(by Page Views)

It's Finally Time for the Justice Department to Take Off the Gloves! by allen finkelstein ( With membership, you can see # of pageviews)

COPs CALLS FOR DOJ to Investigate Integrity of 2024 Presidential Election by Marta Steele ( With membership, you can see # of pageviews)

Naomi Wolf: Pfizer's Crimes Against Humanity by Meryl Ann Butler ( With membership, you can see # of pageviews)

Who Is Greedier--the Left Or Right Wing? by Martha Rosenberg ( With membership, you can see # of pageviews)

What explains the velocity of light? (Thanksgiving ponderings) by Gary Lindorff ( With membership, you can see # of pageviews)

About that "Freedom" to Erase My Ancestor's Struggle for Freedom by Dr. Lenore Daniels ( With membership, you can see # of pageviews)

Introducing a fractal poetic by Gary Lindorff ( With membership, you can see # of pageviews)

Tomgram: Arnold Isaacs, With Trump's Return, Truth Is in Deadly Danger by Tom Engelhardt ( With membership, you can see # of pageviews)

Trump is an archetype folks and I am the freckle on a whale by Gary Lindorff ( With membership, you can see # of pageviews)

Let's play devil's advocate while the dust is still rising. by Gary Lindorff ( With membership, you can see # of pageviews)

The GOP's "Little Secret" to Steal the White House by Ted Millar ( With membership, you can see # of pageviews)

Gaza Scorecard: Israel Fails in Every Level of Compliance by Meryl Ann Butler ( With membership, you can see # of pageviews)

Sanders: No more arms sales to Netanyahu by Meryl Ann Butler ( With membership, you can see # of pageviews)

Democracy: The Big Cash Give-Away by John Hawkins ( With membership, you can see # of pageviews)

Surrendersurrender by Gary Lindorff ( With membership, you can see # of pageviews)

NDEs, Spirit and Politics by Meryl Ann Butler ( With membership, you can see # of pageviews)

I am not strong now, but I will be stronger: Open letter, day after. by Gary Lindorff ( With membership, you can see # of pageviews)

Peace Decides Elections by David Swanson ( With membership, you can see # of pageviews)

Five Fantasiestucke Op. 25 for the Flash Revolution Ahead by John Hawkins ( With membership, you can see # of pageviews)

Tomgram: Liz Theoharis and Shailly Barnes, Trump 2.0 by Tom Engelhardt ( With membership, you can see # of pageviews)

If there is a nuclear war, I will blame Biden. (Joe obviously hasn't read "Frankenstein") by Gary Lindorff ( With membership, you can see # of pageviews)

To Putin by Gary Lindorff ( With membership, you can see # of pageviews)

Mark Thompson: Vote Hacking, Spoonamore's "Duty to Warn" Letter by Meryl Ann Butler ( With membership, you can see # of pageviews)

Taking Stock of Election Shock by Elayne Clift ( With membership, you can see # of pageviews)

An Open Good Riddance Letter to FDA Commissioner Califf by Martha Rosenberg ( With membership, you can see # of pageviews)

Go To Top 50 Most Popular

Ad info: click here

Classics of Liberal Thinking

Progressive Radio Links