Sarah Stillman, The Use and Abuse of Civil Forfeiture. The New Yorker, 12 August 2013. “Under civil forfeiture, [US people] who haven’t been charged with wrongdoing can be stripped of their cash, cars and even homes.
December 16, 2005
Bush Lets U.S. Spy on Callers Without Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court Warrants
James Risen and Eric Lichtblau, Bush Lets U.S. Spy on Callers Without Courts. The New York Times, 16 December 2005. “Months after the Sept. 11 attacks, President Bush secretly authorized the National Security Agency to eavesdrop on Americans and others inside the United States to search for evidence of terrorist activity without the court-approved warrants ordinarily required for domestic spying, according to government officials.” James Risen and Eric Lichtblau won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting for their stories on warrantless domestic eavesdropping.