Slashdot | NSA Data Mining Much Larger Than Reported: "The New York Times is reporting that the 'volume of information harvested from telecommunication data and voice networks, without court-approved warrants, is much larger than the White House has acknowledged.'"

(Via /.)

BBC NEWS | Europe | EU-wide warrant over 'CIA kidnap': "An Italian court has issued Europe-wide arrest warrants for 22 suspected CIA agents accused of helping to kidnap a Muslim cleric in Milan in 2003."

(Via BBC News.)

Salon.com News | Bush's impeachable offense: "Yes, the president committed a federal crime by wiretapping Americans, say constitutional scholars, former intelligence officers and politicians. What's missing is the political will to impeach him."

(Via Salon.)

t r u t h o u t - Senators Seek Probe of Bush's Spying Orders: "Rebuffing assurances from President George W. Bush, bipartisan members of the US Senate's Intelligence Committee called on Tuesday for an immediate inquiry into his authorization of spying on Americans.

    

But Vice President Dick Cheney predicted a backlash against critics of the administration's anti-terrorism policies as he forcefully defended a program that critics say may have exceeded Bush's powers.

    

Republican Sens. Chuck Hagel of Nebraska and Olympia Snowe of Maine joined Democratic Sens. Carl Levin of Michigan, Dianne Feinstein of California and Ron Wyden of Oregon in calling for a joint investigation by the Senate Intelligence and Judiciary Committees into whether the government eavesdropped 'without appropriate legal authority.'"

(Via t r u t h o u t.)

t r u t h o u t - Pentagon Violated Law by Keeping Database on Anti-War Activists: "Washington - Pentagon analysts appear not to have followed guidelines that require deleting information on American citizens and groups from a counterterrorism database within three months if they pose no security threats, Pentagon officials said on Thursday.

    

As a result, dozens of alerts on antiwar meetings and peaceful protests appear to have remained in the database, even though analysts had decided that those involved presented no threat to military bases or personnel, said the officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the program is classified."

(Via t r u t h o u t.)

t r u t h o u t - Bush Vows to Continue Spying on Americans: "Reacting to Bush's vow to continue spying on Americans, Sen. Russell Feingold, D-Wis., said the president's remarks were 'breathtaking in how extreme they were.' Feingold said it was 'absurd' that Bush said he relied on his inherent power as president to authorize the wiretaps. 'If that's true, he doesn't need the Patriot Act because he can just make it up as he goes along. I tell you, he's President George Bush, not King George Bush.'"

(Via t r u t h o u t.)

Schneier on Security: Computer Crime Hype: "I guess this is the season for sensationalist hype of computer crime: first CNN, and then USA Today (drug users and Internet crime, for a double-scary story).

Beware the Four Horsemen of the Information Apocalypse: terrorists, drug dealers, kidnappers, and child pornographers. Seems like you can scare any public into allowing the government to do anything with those four."

(Via Schneier on Security.)