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February 17, 2012
A Brewing Battle Over Warrantless Wiretapping
From the article: "One of the hardest-fought civil liberties battles of the George W. Bush era involved the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), the post-Watergate statute that was meant to rein in domestic surveillance undertaken in the name of national security. It's almost certain that we'll have an equally hard-fought battle over FISA this year, both in the courts and in Congress. The first volley may come as early as next week, because the administration must decide by Tuesday whether to ask the Supreme Court to intervene in the ACLU's constitutional challenge to the FISA Amendments Act, the 2008 law that ratified and expanded the Bush administration's warrantless wiretapping program. And that law is scheduled to sunset in December, which means that the litigation will unfold against the background of a congressional reauthorization debate."
Read Article by Jameel Jaffer, The Huffington Post
Health Care Innovation: From Regulation To ‘Bigger Brains’
Read Article by Emi Kolawole, The Washington Post
DOJ Kills Wireless Network In Budget Request
From the article: "The Justice Department has made it official—the Integrated Wireless Network program is over and there is no funding requested for it in the next fiscal year…The termination of the wireless network is just one of dozens of relatively small cuts being proposed for an array of smaller programs in the department. While the major agency budgets in the department budget remain relatively intact, there are small shifts in funding, both up and down, proposed for information-sharing and intelligence technologies and programs…The integrated wireless network project was initiated in 2004 and within a short time grew to $5 billion in projected costs and coverage for more than 80,000 agents at Justice, Homeland Security and Treasury. About $350 million had been spent to date, according to a recent report from the Government Accountability Office."
Read Article by Alice Lipowicz, Federal Computer Week
