National Blog - page 161
LIVE BLOG: Patriot Act Showdown!
Welcome! C4L Staff, Norm Singleton, Tim Shoemaker, and Megan Stiles will be live blogging the action in the Senate tonight here. Be sure to hit refresh! Also there is still time to call your Senators and tell them to vote NO: [...]
Campaign for Liberty Joins Coalition Against New Pro-surveillance Bills
Campaign for Liberty has joined a broad coalition of organizations in sending a letter to the Senate opposing the FISA Improvements Act of 2015 and the the FISA Reform Act of 2015. These pieces of legislation are being promoted by surveillance [...]
Fearmongering in the Face of Patriot Act Expiration
The clock is ticking as certain provisions of the Patriot Act are set to expire Sunday at midnight. If the Senate doesn't act (something they are usually great at), Section 215 of the Patriot Act will expire. The government has been using [...]
Campaign for Liberty supports the End Warrantless Surveillance Act
Campaign for Liberty has joined a coalition of anti-surveillance state groups from across the political spectrum in support of the End Warrantless Surveillance Act (HR 2233), legislation introduced by Republican Representative Ted Poe (TX-02), [...]
RON PAUL: Janet Yellen is Right: She Can’t Predict the Future
This week I found myself in rare agreement with Janet Yellen when she admitted that her economic predictions are likely to be wrong. Sadly, Yellen did not follow up her admission by handing in her resignation and joining efforts to end the Fed. [...]
A Sunset is a Beautiful Thing
Jennifer Granick, writing in Forbes magazine, explains why the best thing Congress could do regarding Sec. 215 of the PATRIOT Act, is just let it expire. With the Senate scheduled to began debate on whether or not to extend Sec. 215 and the [...]
Watch Norm Singleton on Ron Paul Liberty Report
Earlier today C4L Vice President of Policy Norm Singleton was on the Ron Paul Liberty Report talking to Dr. Paul about the latest updates on the Patriot Act. Watch below:
Bruce Fein Schools Neocon on Surveillance State
Writing in the Huffington Post, Bruce Fein, former associate deputy attorney general and general counsel of the Federal Communications Commission under President Reagan, corrects the numerous errors made in Andrew McCarthy's defense of the [...]
Another lie from the Surveillance State Defenders
Defenders of the Sec. 215 "bulk data" collection program claim that there is "not a single documented case where the program has been used to violate an individual's rights or otherwise been abused." March Wheeler, at Empty Wheel, examines this [...]
Let the Patriot Act Expire
SPRINGFIELD, Virginia - Today, Campaign for Liberty applauded Senator Rand Paul’s filibuster of numerous attempts to extend controversial surveillance provisions of the so-called “PATRIOT” Act. The Senate first failed to invoke cloture [...]