TODAY ON VOT3R - Politics STORIES (Free subscription) | 22/11/2008
Over at the Electronic Frontier Foundation's blog, Deeplinks, Kevin Bankston writes about what Obama could do to stop telco amnesty, framing his post in response to this NYT story by Eric Lichtblau and James Risen, the reporting duo who broke the illegal spying story back in December 2005. They write:...
Daily Kos (Free subscription) | 22/11/2008
Over at the Electronic Frontier Foundation's blog, Deeplinks, Kevin Bankston writes about what Obama could do to stop telco amnesty, framing his post in response to this NYT story by Eric Lichtblau and James Risen, the reporting duo who broke the illegal spying story back in December 2005. They write: WASHINGTON — President-elect Barack Obama will face a series of early decisions on...
TalkLeft (Free subscription) | 18/11/2008
Eric Lichtblau and James Risen , who broke the warrantless wiretapping story for the NYTimes (and justly earned the Pulitzer Prize), raise an important question: President-elect Barack Obama will face a series of early decisions on domestic spying that will test his administration's views on presidential power and civil liberties. The Justice Department will be asked to respond to motions...
Ars Technica (Free subscription) | 18/11/2008
... that much lucre without anything to show for it. Ok, ok, Vista notwithstanding. Eric Lichtblau and James Risen, the latter-day Woodward and Bernstein who broke the NSA warrantless wiretapping story, that Barack Obama will have a chance to signal his approach to surveillance almost immediately upon taking office. With a number of lawsuits implicating the NSA program pending, will Obama's...
New York Times (Free subscription) | 09/11/2008
... Times, where he covers law enforcement and national security affairs. In 2006, he shared a with James Risen of The Times for national reporting for their disclosure of the Bush administration’s program of wiretapping without warrants. The bridegroom is the author of “Bush’s Law: The Remaking of American Justice” (Pantheon, 2008). He graduated from Cornell. He is a son of Bernice Lichtblau...
