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		<title>John Yoo weighs in on NSA/PRISM leak</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2013/06/12/john-yoo-weighs-in-on-nsaprism-leak/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Jun 2013 21:14:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Civil liberties]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Berkeley&#8217;s John Yoo, the Cal law professor who previously was the George W. Bush administration’s architect of legal policies supporting the war on terror and “enhanced interrogation techniques,” wrote a piece in the National Review urging the prosecution of NSA/PRISM leaker Edward Snowden – and perhaps some other folks, too: Recall that the Obama Justice [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Patron saint of whistleblowers to talk in Berkeley</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2013/06/11/patron-saint-of-whistleblowers-to-talk-in-berkeley/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jun 2013 17:39:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Norman Solomon]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/?p=23418</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Perhaps the most famed whistleblower in U.S. history will take part in a panel discussion tonight in Berkeley about new revelations of government surveillance. Daniel Ellsberg, who in 1971 leaked the “Pentagon Papers” exposing U.S. policy on the Vietnam war, will participate in the panel at 7:30 p.m. tonight in St. John’s Church, 2727 College [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lee, progressives hold hearing on drone policy</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2013/05/09/lee-progressives-hold-hearing-on-drone-policy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2013/05/09/lee-progressives-hold-hearing-on-drone-policy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 17:24:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Barbara Lee]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Adam Baron]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/?p=23094</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, including the caucus’ Peace and Security Task Force Chair Congresswoman Barbara Lee, D-Oakland, held a hearing Wednesday on U.S. drone policy. At issue were lethal drones operations abroad, questions of due process, implications for executive and congressional war-making authority, and the precedent being set as other nations rapidly adopt [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bill would force police to get warrants for emails</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2013/03/20/bill-would-force-police-to-get-warrants-for-emails/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2013/03/20/bill-would-force-police-to-get-warrants-for-emails/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Mar 2013 23:14:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[California State Senate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Civil liberties]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mark Leno]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/?p=22557</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A Bay Area lawmaker’s new bill would require California law enforcement agencies to get a search warrant before asking service providers to hand over a private citizen’s emails. SB 467 by state Sen. Mark Leno, D-San Francisco, is sponsored by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a San Francisco-based civil liberties group. Leno introduced a place-holder version [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Zoe Lofgren offers bill to limit domestic drone use</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2013/02/15/zoe-lofgren-offers-bill-to-limit-domestic-drone-use/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2013/02/15/zoe-lofgren-offers-bill-to-limit-domestic-drone-use/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2013 18:49:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Civil liberties]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[H.R. 627]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Preserving American Privacy Act]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ted Poe]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new bill coauthored by a Bay Area congresswoman would establish due process protections for Americans against government-operated unmanned aerial drones in U.S. airspace. H.R. 637, the Preserving American Privacy Act by Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D-San Jose, and Rep. Ted Poe, R-Texas, would also forbid law enforcement and private drones from being armed with firearms [...]]]></description>
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		<title>9th Circuit to rehear challenge to state DNA law</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2012/07/25/9th-circuit-to-rehear-challenge-to-state-dna-law/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2012/07/25/9th-circuit-to-rehear-challenge-to-state-dna-law/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jul 2012 01:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/?p=20503</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals agreed Wednesday to rehear a challenge to California’s law requiring law enforcement officers to collect DNA samples from all adults arrested for felonies. The lawsuit was filed in 2009 by the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California; spokeswoman Rebecca Farmer said Wednesday that oral arguments will be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DiFi floats bill to bar citizens&#8217; indefinite detention</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2011/12/15/difi-floats-bill-to-bar-citizens-indefinite-detention/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2011/12/15/difi-floats-bill-to-bar-citizens-indefinite-detention/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 01:08:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Dianne Feinstein]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/?p=18326</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee Chairwoman Dianne Feinstein today introduced a bipartisan Due Process Guarantee Act of 2011, which states that American citizens apprehended inside the United States can’t be indefinitely detained by the military. This has been a hot topic in recent weeks, as Congress debated a National Defense Authorization Act that had included a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ACLU loses in court vs. OPD, declares victory</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2011/12/13/aclu-loses-in-court-vs-opd-declares-victory/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2011/12/13/aclu-loses-in-court-vs-opd-declares-victory/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 00:35:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A federal judge has rejected civil-rights groups’ request for a preliminary injunction to keep Oakland Police from using excessive force against Occupy protesters and other demonstrators. Nonetheless, the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California declared victory. “(E)ven without a favorable ruling at this juncture, we&#8217;ve reached our ultimate goal with the lawsuit: stopping further [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Perez, Steinberg urge review of pepper-spray use</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2011/11/21/perez-steinberg-urge-review-of-pepper-spray-use/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2011/11/21/perez-steinberg-urge-review-of-pepper-spray-use/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 20:31:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/?p=17891</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[California Assembly Speaker John A. Pérez, D-Los Angeles, just issued this statement amid the uproar over police’s use of pepper spray against nonviolent protesters Friday at the University of California, Davis: “I was appalled at the apparent use of excessive force by the UC Davis police force at a peaceful student demonstration. “All Americans deserve [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Judge won&#8217;t issue TRO against Oakland Police</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2011/11/17/judge-wont-issue-tro-against-oakland-police/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2011/11/17/judge-wont-issue-tro-against-oakland-police/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2011 18:51:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Civil liberties]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A federal judge yesterday denied civil liberties groups’ and activists’ request for a temporary restraining order to keep Oakland police from using excessive force in violation of their own crowd-control policies. The American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California and the National Lawyers Guild had sued the Oakland Police Department on Monday on behalf of [...]]]></description>
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