EFF sues over telecom immunity for wiretapping

From Wired magazine’s Threat Level:
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) filed a brief Thursday claiming that the government’s attempt to give retroactive immunity to the companies that helped the Bush administration’s warrantless spying program violates the Constitution by ripping from the courts the power to hear citizens’ grievances against the government.
The EFF’s brief, filed in response [...]

Senators answers questions about homeland security (and other issues)

Democrat Tom Harkin and Republican Christopher Reed answered a series of questions about national issues.  Many questions his on other topics, but Homeland Security-related questions include:

Would you vote for a defense or supplemental appropriations bill that includes a fixed timeline for withdrawal from Iraq?
Should the government be allowed to monitor electronic communications in the interest [...]

Senate Intelligence Committee to investigate claims of questionable eavesdropping

From the New York Times:
The chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Senator John D. Rockefeller IV, said Thursday that the committee would investigate claims by two military eavesdroppers that they routinely listened in on private calls home from American military officers, aid workers and journalists stationed in Iraq.
The two former intelligence officers, Adrienne Kinne, an [...]