me (Joseph Zernik, Human Rights Alert (NGO)
me (Joseph Zernik, Human Rights Alert (NGO)When you want to keep the kid's hand out of the cookie jar, you put a lid on it that the kid can't open. Look at the CourtSmart system as a starting point:http://www.courtsmart.com/
And set up a separate grand jury, prosecutor, and court for dealing with public corruption.
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| Partial settlement approved in County lawsuit against MERS Your Houston News Although many lawsuits have been filed in other states, this is the first one to reach this agreement. It was a collaborative effort among the counties, Bank of America, MERSCORP, and MERS that will both ensure increased accuracy in real property ... See all stories on this topic » |
| BofA, Citi Sued by University of California Over Libor Bloomberg Michael O'Looney, a spokesman for London-based Barclays, declined to comment on the lawsuit. Bill Halldin, a spokesman for Charlotte, North Carolina-based Bank of America, and Danielle Romero-Apsilos, a spokeswoman for New York-based Citigroup ... See all stories on this topic » |
| BofA, Wells Fargo Won't Face Mortgage Deal Enforcement Case (1) Businessweek ... which claims Bank of America and Wells Fargo have violated the settlement. The oversight process “will be the most efficient path to improving services to borrowers -- and, we believe, will bring about those reforms more quickly than protracted ... See all stories on this topic » |
| Cracker Barrel, Genesco join lawsuit over credit card fees The Tennessean ... Panera Bread, Ralph Lauren and Thortons. Bank defendants are Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup and Wells Fargo. Contact Duane Marsteller at 615-259-8241 or dmarstelle@tennessean.com. Follow him on Twitter @DuaneMarsteller. Tweet. See all stories on this topic » |
OpEdNews Op Eds 6/30/2013 at 16:18:48 FISA Judge Who Approved Massive NSA Spying Identified?By Rob Kall (about the author)
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On July 14, 2004, the surveillance court for the first time approved the gathering of information by the NSA, which created the equivalent of a digital vault to hold Internet metadata. Kollar-Kotelly's order authorized the metadata program under a FISA provision known as the "pen register/trap and trace," or PRTT.
The ruling was a secret not just to the public and most of Congress, but to all of Kollar-Kotelly's surveillance court colleagues. Under orders from the president, none of the court's other 10 members could be told about the Internet metadata program, which was one prong of a larger and highly classified data-gathering effort known as the President's Surveillance Program, or PSP.
But the importance of her order -- which approved the collection based on a 1986 law typically used for phone records -- was hard to overstate."The order essentially gave NSA the same authority to collect bulk Internet metadata that it had under the PSP," the inspector general's report said, with some minor caveats including reducing the number of people who could access the records.
On May 24, 2006, Kollar-Kotelly signed another order, this one authorizing the bulk collection of phone metadata from U.S. phone companies, under a FISA provision known as Section 215, or the "business records provision," of the USA Patriot Act. "
" Both judges expressed concern to senior officials that the president's program, if ever made public and challenged in court, ran a significant risk of being declared unconstitutional, according to sources familiar with their actions. Yet the judges believed they did not have the authority to rule on the president's power to order the eavesdropping, government sources said, and focused instead on protecting the integrity of the FISA process.
It was an odd position for the presiding judges of the FISA court, the secret panel created in 1978 in response to a public outcry over warrantless domestic spying by J. Edgar Hoover's FBI. The court's appointees, chosen by then-Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, were generally veteran jurists with a pro-government bent, and their classified work is considered a powerful tool for catching spies and terrorists."
