Feingold, Durbin, and Wyden Demand the OLC Opinion on Exigent Letters

By: emptywheel Friday January 22, 2010 1:16 pm

As I reported yesterday, the Dawn Johnsen-less OLC wrote an opinion on January 8 retroactively authorizing the FBI’s inappropriate use of the exigent letters to snoop on Americans’ telecomm records. Now, Senators Feingold, Durbin, and Wyden, have demanded that opinion from Eric Holder. Of note, they tie their demand into DOJ IG Glenn Fine’s comment [...]

We Can’t Afford the MaxTax

By: emptywheel Tuesday September 15, 2009 10:48 am

The Senate is talking about something I talked about last week: how unaffordable the MaxTax is for the middle class.

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