American people need to wake up
Daily Press
29, "Why it's no longer the Land of the Free") focused on several nefarious features of 2001's Patriot Act and the most recent National Defense Authorization Act. Assassination of US citizens, warrantless wiretapping, indefinite detention of US …

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Latin American Herald Tribune

Panama Refuses to Extradite Former Spy Chief to Colombia
Latin American Herald Tribune
PANAMA CITY – Panama rejected on Friday a request from Colombia to extradite former spy chief Maria del Pilar Hurtado, who faces charges in Bogota over an illegal wiretapping scandal. The foreign ministry cited the Inter-American Convention on Human …

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Colombian spy agents barred from service for wiretapping Supreme Court
Colombia Reports
Colombia's Inspector General on Wednesday barred two intelligence officials involved in the illegal wiretapping of the Supreme Court from service for 20 years. William Gabriel Romero Sanchez and Martha Liliana Alarcon, alias "Mata Hari" were both …

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Charles Grassley's Curious Obsession
New York Times (blog)
Or the memo justifying warrantless wiretapping of Americans' communications abroad. Did Mr. Grassley take to the Senate floor to denounce those ghastly opinions? Remember, they were later repudiated by another set of lawyers in Mr. Bush's own Office of …

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Spin Meter: Candidates use transparency as a club
Statesman Journal
Just as the Bush administration did, the Obama White House has used the state secrets privilege to turn aside lawsuits seeking accountability for warrantless wiretapping and torture, she said. It has also kept from public view photographs of detainee …

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CHAPMAN: Obama, justices disagree
The Daily News Journal
Warrantless wiretapping in national security cases? For it. Detaining citizens indefinitely without trial? Sure. Assassinating Americans abroad without making public the evidence or the legal rationale? Done. In October 2010, American Civil Liberties …

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Colombia's ex-DAS director has 'no comment' for Panama's press (video)
Colombia Reports
Pilar, the former director of Colombia's now defunct intelligence agency DAS, fled to Panama as a poltical asylum-seeker in November 2010, amid an illegal wiretapping scandal that led to the organization's demise. Representatives of the International …

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The Daily Star

Sehnaoui to raise data issue in Cabinet session
The Daily Star
The device can collect data on all calls made through the station, leading to widespread suspicions that illegal wiretapping is taking place in the country. The data on the disk does not include the content of telephone calls, only who is calling, …

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Don Berna testimony proves Uribe govt conspired against Supreme Court: Judge
Colombia Reports
The Supreme Court judge said he hopes the Prosecutor General's Office will be able to convict those guilty of the illegal wiretapping and spying. Arrubla said, "I hesitate to point fingers. The Prosecutor General's Office will get to each person taking …

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AUC collaborated with Uribe government, spy agency: Don Berna
Colombia Reports
Demobilized paramilitaries worked together with the DAS in the illegal wiretapping of the spy agency with the knowledge of then-director Maria del Pilar Hurtado. "Diego [Alvarez] told me that he had talked to her at one point and that she was informed …

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