The Lippard Blog

Day one steps are closing Guantanamo Bay, ceasing and prohibiting torture, ceasing and prohibiting extraordinary rendition; steps for the fi...

The Electronic Frontier Foundation has filed Jewel v. NSA to try another tactic in stopping unconstitutional warrantless wiretapping of U.S....

I saw two articles this morning which I think invite comparison. First, Phil Dunkelberger, CEO of PGP Corporation, says people visiting Chi...

There's a telecom panel at the Netroots Nation conference today on the subject of "Big Telecom: An Emerging Threat to Our Democracy...

Ed Brayton at Dispatches from the Culture Wars reports on some recent statements by Attorney General Michael Mukasey during a speech about p...

The March 10 Wall Street Journal contains a fairly detailed description of the data mining operation being run by the NSA . The program de...

Gary D. Barnett, president of a financial services firm in Montana, has written an article about InfraGard for The Future of Freedom Foundat...

Mark Fiore helps teach kids about the importance of warrantless wiretapping . (Hat tip to Bob Hagen.)

Today's Washington Post reports : The FBI, which has had trouble keeping track of its guns and laptops, also has a chronic problem pay...

The Washington Times reported on December 21 that several years ago, Chinese intelligence successfully subverted the National Security Agen...

Former Qwest CEO Joseph Nacchio, found guilty of insider trading in April, is claiming in his appeal that part of the reason Qwest stock dro...

The Bush administration, commenting on Congress' expansion of the Executive branch's warrantless wiretapping powers without needing ...

Julian Sanchez points out the staggering misrepresentation by those arguing that the recent increase in wiretapping power amounts to nothi...

Both houses of Congress have passed a bill that updates the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) to allow warrantless wiretapping wh...

The New York Times editorialized that vice president Dick Cheney was the person who sent then White House counsel Alberto Gonzales and chi...

There's now much discussion in the blogosphere about former Deputy Attorney General James B. Comey's testimony before Congress . Co...

Last night I attended a small event where Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) spoke about his candidacy for president as a Republican. I found it a bit of...

News.com has a nice article about how Global Crossing (my employer) has criticized the extension of CALEA wiretapping rules to VoIP and broa...

In 2000, an article about "The Secret FISA Court: Rubber Stamping Our Rights" created outrage and prompted comments like this: Th...

Although the ACLU's lawsuit against AT&T in Illinois was thrown out , a separate case in Michigan filed on January 17 of this year a...