updated Sun. February 4, 2024
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Antiwar.com
April 27, 2018
Comey was witness to the legal wranglings inside the Bush administration over NSA's illegal domestic spying on Americans, and was in the hospital room when Bush White House officials tried to bully ailing Attorney General John Ashcroft into reauthorizing the Stellar Wind surveillance program. ComeyÃâà...
Charleston Gazette-Mail
April 25, 2018
As Comey recounts in detail, after 9/11 the Bush administration put in place a surveillance program called “Stellar Wind” that Justice Department ... Just before leaving the Bush administration, Comey gave a speech to the National Security Agency in which he said, “It is the job of a good lawyer to say 'yes.
RollingStone.com
April 17, 2018
He describes himself forcefully opposing the NSA's "Stellar Wind" program, which he says went "beyond even the legally dubious. ... "the leader I most admire in government" – appeared to lie about the existence of such programs in testimony before Congress, saying the NSA did "not wittingly" collect dataÃâà...
The Intercept
February 7, 2018
Jeremy blasts the use of former CIA and NSA officials as news analysts and the hypocrisy surrounding the FISA debate. ..... the FISA Amendments Act of 2008, which was effectively a kind of legalization of the warrantless collection had been conducted under the ages of the Stellar Wind program, authorizedÃâà...
TheBlaze.com
January 20, 2018
“NSA senior management is fully aware of this failure, and the Agency is committed to taking swift action to respond to the loss of this data.” ... BREAKING: NSA conveniently wipes out '01-'07 mass surveillance data from warrantless & unconstitutional STELLAR WIND program violating court orders inÃâà...
The Intercept
January 3, 2018
Over the course of about 10 minutes, the source provided a detailed outline of the NSA's massive post-9/11 domestic spying program, which I later learned was code-named Stellar Wind. The source told me that the NSA had been wiretapping Americans without search warrants, without court approval.
WIRED
December 23, 2017
The provision was crafted after the Bush administration's secret warrantless surveillance program, dubbed Stellar Wind, was disclosed to The New York ... The NSA collects hundreds of millions of video chats, instant messages, and emails under Section 702 by compelling companies like Facebook, AT&T,Ãâà...
WhoWhatWhy / RealNewsProject (blog)
December 8, 2017
As his distinguished career with the NSA progressed, he would begin to combine these skills with the evolution of the digital age. .... Those are the three things they removed from the ThinThread program and then translated that software forward to do the Stellar Wind program and eventually how they spiedÃâà...
Motherboard en_us
September 15, 2017
The government got the FISC to approve collection of what it claimed was only metadata off the telecom switches to replace the Internet dragnet part of President Bush's Stellar Wind program. But in approving the collection, judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly limited which categories of data the NSA could obtain.
Lawfare (blog)
September 6, 2017
The secret loosening of internal checks on NSA programs following the 9/11 terrorist attacks resulted in the warrantless surveillance program, Stellar Wind. This program incorporated portions of an earlier NSA program, known as ThinThread, but with its privacy protections stripped out. Edgar reminds usÃâà...
POLITICO Magazine
May 18, 2017
A year after the showdown over STELLAR WIND, Comey journeyed from the Justice Department up the Baltimore-Washington Parkway to Fort Meade, Maryland, the headquarters of the NSA. His speech that day was purportedly in recognition of Law Day, but it carried a coded message for those few in theÃâà...
Ars Technica
July 29, 2013
We've known for years that the STELLAR WIND surveillance program—a massive NSA effort authorized by President George W. Bush after 9/11—eventually led to a dramatic showdown at the bedside of then-attorney general John Ashcroft. The situation surrounding STELLAR WIND was on such shakyÃâà...
TheBlaze.com
June 27, 2013
One of the early NSA whistleblowers, William Binney, detailed to Wired last year about the agency's domestic surveillance program dubbed “Stellar Wind,” making it the first time anyone had gone on record to talk about it. Now, more details about the project's history are emerging as part of the continuingÃâà...
Bucks County Courier Times
December 31, 1999
As Comey recounts in detail, after 9/11 the Bush administration put in place a surveillance program called “Stellar Wind” that Justice Department ... Just before leaving the Bush administration, Comey gave a speech to the National Security Agency in which he said, “It is the job of a good lawyer to say 'yes.
The Daily Jeffersonian
December 31, 1999
As Comey recounts in detail, after 9/11 the Bush administration put in place a surveillance program called “Stellar Wind” that Justice Department lawyers decided, ... Just before leaving the Bush administration, Comey gave a speech to the National Security Agency in which he said, “It is the job of a good lawyer to say 'yes.
