Judge strikes down FBI secrecy orders
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A provision of the Patriot Act that requires people who are formally contacted by the FBI for information to keep it a secret is unconstitutional, a federal judge ruled on Thursday.
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Surveillance powers granted to the FBI  under the Patriot Act, a cornerstone of the Bush  Administration's war on terror, were ruled unconstitutional by  a judge on Wednesday in a new blow to U.S. security policies.
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A federal appeals court removed a serious legal challenge to the Bush administration's warrantless wiretapping program yesterday, overruling the only judge who held that a controversial surveillance effort by the National Security Agency was unconstitutional.
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A provision of the controversial Patriot Act which allowed the FBI to clandestinely demand information from ISPs has been ruled unconstitutional.
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A divided federal appeals court today dismissed a case challenging a National Security Agency wiretap program, reversing a trial judgeâs order that the program be shut down.
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A federal judge has ordered the FBI to turn over files on John Lennon to a California professor who said the documents show Britain's domestic spy agency shadowed the late Beatle's political activities.
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A federal judge on Wednesday rejected a surveillance provision of the USA Patriot Act which requires Internet providers to supply personal information about customers to the federal government, and bars them from disclosing that they received a special
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A judge has ordered Spain's state intelligence agency to declassify any documents it has about secret CIA flights shuttling terrorism suspects, court officials said on Wednesday.
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A federal judge on Wednesday found  unconstitutional a part of the United States' anti-terror  Patriot Act that allows the FBI to demand customer records from  businesses without court approval.
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LOS ANGELES, Jan. 6 -- A federal judge Thursday dismissed all charges against a Chinese American woman accused of using a sexual affair with an FBI agent to gain unauthorized access to classified documents.
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A federal judge Thursday dismissed all charges against a Chinese-American woman accused of using a sexual affair with an FBI agent to gain unauthorized access to classified documents.
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A federal judge in Los Angeles, who previously struck down sections of the Patriot Act, has ruled that provisions of an anti-terrorism order issued by President George W. Bush after September 11 are unconstitutional.
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A federal judge has ordered the FBI  to turn over files on John Lennon to a California professor who  said the documents show Britain's domestic spy agency shadowed  the late Beatle's political activities.
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A judge has struck down several government rules on campaign fund raising, ordering tougher restrictions on big political money in the long term while creating uncertainty about
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The Bush administration asked a federal judge yesterday to suspend her order barring eavesdropping on suspected terrorists, saying any halt in the surveillance would leave the nation more vulnerable to terrorist attack.
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In a blow to the Department of Justiceâs post-Sept. 11, 2001, powers, a federal judge said the governmentâs ability to conduct secret and unchallengable searches of Internet and telephone records violates the Constitution.
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A federal judge ruled that the provision broadly violated the Constitution by giving federal authorities unchecked powers to obtain private information.