FCNL Rights and Liberties Weekly

Volume 4, No. 2

January 16, 2006

NSA Spying: As part of its online briefing book, the Center for Democracy and Technology has compiled a list of resources about domestic spying by the National Security Agency. It can be found here:

http://cdt.org/security/nsa/briefingbook.php

Alito Nomination: Senate Judiciary Committee has concluded its hearings on the nomination of Judge Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court, and a Judiciary Committee vote is set for January 24. Below, find a link to FCNL’s letter of concern on the issue of Judge Alito’s views about the expansion of executive power, and a briefing from People for the American Way (PFAW) about decoding the language of the hearings (and news articles quoting from the hearings).

FCNL’s Letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee:

http://www.fcnl.org/issues/item.php?item_id=1679&issue_id=67

PFAW’s Hearing Primer:

http://media.pfaw.org/pdf/Decoding_White_House_Codebook_in_Alito_Hearings.pdf

First Amendment ‘Must Reads’: The First Amendment Center Online collected its “most important postings” in 2005 here:

http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/collection.aspx?id=16129

Executive Power: Former Vice President Al Gore delivered a remarkable speech for the transpartisan Liberty Coalition on January 16 at Constitution Hall in Washington. He discussed the growth of executive power and the timidity of the legislative branch, especially in light of domestic surveillance, torture, and the “war on terror.” Find the text of the speech here:

http://www.libertycoalition.net/gore-speech

or watch the speech from C-SPAN here (RealPlayer required):

rtsp://video.c-span.org/project/ter/ter011606_gore.rm

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