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October 08, 2010

Bank Executive Wins Athena Award

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Fifth Third Women's Financial Group and serves on several boards including the Women & Girls Foundation of Southwest Pennsylvania, the FISA Foundation, [...]

October 08, 2010

FISA Advises The Public On Wills

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The Fiduciary Institute of South Africa (FISA) welcomes the recent "national wills week" initiative by the Law Society of South Africa as a means of [...]

October 08, 2010

Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) | American Civil ...

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On July 10, President Bush signed the FISA Amendments Act of 2008 (FAA). Until Congress enacted the FAA, FISA generally prohibited the government from [...]

October 08, 2010

'Get FISA Right' Fundraising Push For Feingold Underway Get FISA ...

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As a supporter of getting FISA right again, and of repealing the PATRIOT Act, we probably don't have to tell you Russ Feingold is our best ally in the Senate. National security and human rights advocates have had to develop separate [...]

October 08, 2010

FISA Court Proposes New Court Rules | Privacy News - PogoWasRight.org

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Steven Aftergood writes: The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court has proposed new rules to comply with the provisions of the FISA Amendments Act of. [...]

October 08, 2010

St. Catharines RC Bulletins: FISA World Masters Needs Volunteers

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FISA World Masters Needs Volunteers Want to Volunteer? Click here. I would like each and everyone of you to consider Stewardship. My definition of Stewardship is the giving of one's time, talent and treasure. [...]

October 08, 2010

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The Official website of FISA, the international rowing federation. Latest world rowing news, comprehensive live coverage from top international rowing events, rower biographies [...]

October 08, 2010

Two New Judges Appointed To FISA Court

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In March, U.S. District Judge John Bates of the District of Columbia was promoted to chief of the FISA court, taking over for Kollar-Kotelly. Hogan was appointed to the U.S. District Court in 1982, and served as chief judge in D.C. from [...]

October 08, 2010

ACLU Asks For More Transparency In Disclosing Legal Rulings On ...

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The FISA court's refusal to release certain legal rulings led to an uninformed debate before the FAA was enacted. Unless the court releases its rulings interpreting the FAA, the debate about repeal or extension of the FAA will be just [...]

October 08, 2010

T R U T H O U T | ACLU Will Challenge FISA Bill In Court

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Nonetheless, once the House passed a FISA bill that came after negotiations with the Senate and White House, it's eventual fate became clear. Civil liberties advocates had succeeded in delaying Wednesday's vote as long as possible, [...]

October 08, 2010

Valerie Plame Wilson Discusses Her Memoir, FISA And Her Move To ...

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Valerie Plame Wilson's identity is no longer a secret. Five years and two lawsuits later, neither is her story. In her October 2007 memoir, Fair Game: How a Top CIA Agent Was Betrayed by Her Own Government, former agent Wilson [...]

October 08, 2010

Surveillance Court Should Operate More Transparently And Release ...

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The FISC, which was created by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) of 1978, reviews national security-related surveillance applications under FISA, the 2008 FISA Amendments Act (FAA) and the Patriot Act. It also resolves [...]

October 08, 2010

Federal Judge Rules Warrantless Wiretapping Violates FISA

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Federal Judge Vaughn Walker ruled March 31 that the executive branch cannot flatly ignore the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 (FISA)and the Fourth Amendment to the US Constitution in a fiery decision that lambasted both [...]

October 08, 2010

Telecom Donations Tied To FISA Vote | War Is A Crime .org

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Telecom Donations Tied to FISA Vote. Submitted by davidswanson on Wed, 2008-06-25 15:01. Congress Spying. By Mike Lillis, The Washington Independent. Supporters of the spying bill received twice the contributions as those against it. [...]

October 08, 2010

FISA Amendment Just In Time To Steal Election | War Is A Crime .org

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The Act does require that the certification sent to the FISA Court "include the procedures adopted in accordance with subsections (d) [targeting procedures] and (e) [minimization procedures]." However, if this requirement is to have [...]

October 08, 2010

Olbermann Talks FISA Tonight In Special Comment - TVNewser

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last week between Glenn Greenwald and Keith Olbermann about Obama's (and Olbermann's) position on FISA? Well, new week, same topic. Tonight, Olbermann delivers a Special Comment on the subject (he announced this on his Daily Kos blog): [...]

October 08, 2010

EFF: EFF Analysis Of USA PATRIOT Act (Oct. 31, 2001)

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Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. Frequently Asked Questions (and FISA is the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which establishes a legal regime for " [...]

October 08, 2010

Wikileaks Informant To Army CID Allegedly Misrepresented Self ...

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It's unclear whether Webster, in private conversations or emails, disclosed during conversations about FISA his past or ongoing connection to the intelligence community, army, or counter intelligence. Based on his extensive interest in [...]

October 08, 2010

MVP Estate Planning: South African "National Wills" Week

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The Fiduciary Institute of South Africa (FISA) advises individuals to constantly update their will due to a change in assets, relationships and/or other financial circumstances. Also, when choosing an executor or trustee for your will [...]

October 08, 2010

2007 Frontline Segment On Church Committee & FISA Court (w ...

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A closer look at the famous post-Watergate investigation into domestic spying abuses and how it led to a secret court to authorize surveillance requests. By Katelyn Epsley-Jones and Christina Frenzel Frontline | May 15, 2007 The 1975-76 [...]

October 08, 2010

T R U T H O U T | Keith Olbermann | Special Comment Regarding FISA

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Sixth sentence out of Mr. Cheney's mouth: The FISA bill is about, quote, "retroactive liability protection for the companies that have worked with us and helped us prevent further attacks against the United States." [...]

October 08, 2010

Senators Block Consideration Of Wiretap Bill - CNN

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"I'm pleased we were able to delay a vote on FISA until after the July 4 holiday instead of having it jammed through," Feingold said. "I hope that over the July 4 holiday, senators will take a closer look at this deeply flawed [...]

October 08, 2010

Press Release Service | Press Releases | SIRC

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In addition to their extensive national umpiring experience, the above individuals studied for a number of months for the examination, participated in a FISA umpires clinic in March of this year led by FISA Umpiring Commission member [...]

October 08, 2010

Programmatic Surveillance And FISA: Of Needles In Haystacks ...

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Professor Banks argues that the basic framework of FISA should be refashioned. The 2008 amendments to FISA permit broad, programmatic surveillance focused on patterns of suspicious activity and not on a specific individual. [...]

October 08, 2010

Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) | American Civil ...

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On July 10, President Bush signed the FISA Amendments Act of 2008 (FAA). Until Congress enacted the FAA, FISA generally prohibited the government from conducting electronic [...]


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