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...Democrats, would usurp G.O.P.-led Senate committees by convening oversight hearings on issues--such as flawed prewar intelligence on Iraq--that Democrats feel have not been sufficiently probed. The policy committee normally promotes party positions on issues and has the statutory authority to hold hearings, but it can't subpoena witnesses. Frist spokesman Bob Stevenson says, "This is a political stunt, nothing more, nothing less...
Indeed, from the PATRIOT Act on, the Bush Administration has failed to win the trust of those concerned with the civil liberties of students. Earlier this year, federal authorities in Iowa served a subpoena ordering Drake University to turn over the records of student peace activists. Just last month, the FBI conducted raids on student dorms at North Carolina State University in the wake of a non-student demonstration in another part of town. And immigrant students have been subjected to especially intense surveillance under the Student and Exchange Visitor Information System (SEVIS...
Because, it turns out, EZ-Pass statements count as third party records, in much the same category as electricity or natural gas bills. The upshot of this is that each of these, in the eyes of the law, can be easily obtained through a subpoena process, circumventing altogether the sticky rules that have developed around the acquisition of a fourth-amendment search warrant or a wiretap. The specific procedural guidelines for acquiring a subpoena are quite complicated, and can be laid out in each instance by legislation, but in practice the rule tends...
...quite clear on this point, is that if Google stores this information, and if it’s accessible to them, that they will happily share it with a court if they’re asked to do so by law—for example, by way of a subpoena. Worse still, neither Google nor the government is even compelled to let you know that the information is even being sought after...
...surface personal details which are at best humiliating and at worst could do you long term harm. This isn’t all just theory, either: despite fervent efforts by the ACLU and the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), Yahoo! has, for example, responded to a number of subpoena requests by corporations for the names of employees who had been criticizing company management pseudonymously on stock market discussion boards...