Domestic Wiretapping

Covers the various controversies about wiretapping.

Provides information about domestic spying and wiretapping, discussing how efforts to protect the nation sometimes conflict with Constitutional rights to privacy and freedom of speech and reviewing the history of intelligence gathering.

On March 9, 2007, a panel of three experts attended a briefing on domestic wiretapping in the war on terror at the U. S. Commission on Civil Rights. These experts presented their insights on the constitutional implications of wiretapping in the war on terror, the role of the President and Congress in national security policy-making and program authorization, and the impact of surveillance program on Arab Americans and other groups.

On March 9, 2007, a panel of three experts attended a briefing on domestic wiretapping in the war on terror at the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. Gregory T. Nojeim, Assistant Director and Chief Legislative Counsel of the American Civil Liberties Union, Washington Legislative Office; Dr. John Eastman, Professor at Chapman University School of Law and Director of the Claremont Institute Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence; and Kareem W. Shora, National Executive Director of the American-Arab Anti Discrimination Committee presented their insights on the constitutional implications of wiretapping in the war on terror, the role of the President and Congress in national security policy-making and program authorization, and the impact of surveillance programs on Arab Americans and other groups.