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Wiretaps promote freedom

Posted on 02 April 2008 by Robert Christensen

Last spring, former Attorney General John Ashcroft came and spoke on Marquette’s campus. In the speech he addressed a variety of different issues, but one of his primary focuses was the Patriot Act and, in particular, wiretaps. Ashcroft believes that wiretaps do not destroy freedom but foster it. Opponents of wiretaps believe the government [...] Continue Reading

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Tap a keg, not our phone calls

Posted on 02 April 2008 by Jason Ardanowski

One of my (over-21) colleagues on the Warrior told me, “The only thing that we should tap is a keg of beer.” The recent hullabaloo about the 2007 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) court ruling that forbade the National Security Agency (NSA) from wiretapping on U.S. commercial telecoms networks is a bunch of political hot [...] Continue Reading

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Facts about American surveillance

Posted on 02 April 2008 by Adam Covach

According to www.cdt.org, the federal government had the power for legal electronic surveillance long before the PATRIOT Act. The Federal Wiretap Act was approved in 1968 and allowed for surveillance of phone calls, emails, pagers, and other electronic media for the purposes of investigating criminal activities. This act, however, required a court order from a judge [...] Continue Reading

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