The FBI and some U.S. Attorneys' offices around the country may be reading emails without a warrant, according to documents obtained by the ACLU and made public Wednesday.
The documents "paint a troubling picture of the government?s email surveillance practices," wrote Nathan Freed Wessler, attorney with the ACLU's Speech, Privacy and Technology Project, in a blog posting.
"Not only does the FBI claim it can read emails and other electronic communications without a warrant ? even after a federal appeals court ruled that doing so violates the Fourth Amendment ? but the documents strongly suggest that different U.S. Attorneys? offices around the country are applying conflicting standards to access communications content," he wrote.
The Fourth Amendment protects citizens against unreasonable searches and seizures.
"The documents we received from the FBI don?t flat out tell us whether FBI agents always get warrants, but they strongly suggest that they don?t."
The ACLU obtained documents from the FBI and U.S. Attorneys' offices via federal Freedom of Information Act requests.
The FBI told NBC News, via an emailed statement, that in "all investigations, the FBI obtains evidence in accordance with the laws and Constitution of the United States, and consistent with Attorney General guidelines."
The bureau's field offices "work closely with U.S. Attorney?s Office to adhere to the legal requirements of their particular districts as set forth in case law or court decisions/precedent."
NBC News also contacted the Department of Justice for comment, and will update this post when we hear back.
Last month, the ACLU shared IRS Criminal Tax Division memos and manuals which indicated the agency is not always following a 2010 appellate court ruling that the government must obtain a warrant before ordering email providers to turn over messages. That information also was obtained through a FOIA request.
In a statement to NBC News then, the IRS did not directly address the ACLU's concerns, but did say "Respecting taxpayer rights and taxpayer privacy are cornerstone principles for the IRS. Our job is to administer the nation's tax laws, and we do so in a way that follows the law and treats taxpayers with respect."
The ACLU said the FBI and U.S. Attorneys' Office documents show "if nothing else" that "federal policy around access to the contents of our electronic communications is in a state of chaos. The FBI, the Executive Office for U.S. Attorneys, and DOJ Criminal Division should clarify whether they believe warrants are required across the board when accessing people?s email."
The civil liberties organization is also pushing for passage of amendments to the federal Electronics Communication Privacy Act. The act was passed in 1986, before email and the Internet became part of everyday life.
The law, as now written, does not require the government to have a search warrant when requesting access to emails and messages more than 180 days old that are stored online. Such information can be gathered by obtaining a subpoena, which is easier to get than a warrant.
A bill by Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vermont ? who authored the original ECPA bill 27 years ago ? would update the law by requiring a search warrant if the government wants to read emails stored with third-party providers, such as Google or Yahoo.
It would also eliminate the 180-day rule and require the government to notify a person whose emails or other electronic communications have been disclosed, within 10 days of obtaining a search warrant. The bill is making its way through the Senate.
?When ECPA was enacted, email was primarily a means of communicating information, not storing it," Leahy said in a statement. "Today, we use our email accounts as digital filing cabinets, where we store many of the personal documents and sensitive information that the Fourth Amendment was meant to protect. This bill takes an essential step toward ensuring that the private life of Americans remains private.?
This story was updated at 4:30 p.m. ET May 8.
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The punk exhibit at the Met (Jennifer Graylock/FilmMagic)
When the legendary downtown music club CBGB closed its doors in New York City in 2006, its many obituaries were quick to pay homage to its infamous bathrooms?facilities so vile even rock stars, who presumably have seen everything, struggled to find the right adjectives to describe their disgust.
?Legendarily nasty,? David Byrne of the Talking Heads once politely declared.
The dungeon-like restrooms, with their missing doors and walls covered floor to ceiling in graffiti and other substances that would make a health inspector cringe, seemed to be a vivid metaphor for CBGB?s status as the place where the anarchic world of punk rock got its start in America in the 1970s.
Still, it may be surprising to some to see a recreation of CBGB?s bathrooms, right down to the toilet grime, about 80 blocks north in the rarefied world of Manhattan?s pristine Upper East Side. It's the opening centerpiece of the Metropolitan Museum of Art?s newest exhibition: ?Punk: Chaos to Couture,? which examines the movement?s influence on high fashion.
The show, which opens to the public on Thursday and runs through Aug. 14, combines punk-era artifacts like the CBGB re-creation with clothes from designers like Zandra Rhodes and Vivienne Westwood, who have been credited as the first designers to translate the punk aesthetic to fashion.
The exhibit then transitions into more recent designs seemingly influenced by punk over the last four decades, including creations from Christian Dior, Chanel, Balenciaga, Alexander McQueen and Burberry.
About 100 different designs are on display, many of which showcase what the museum touts as punk?s ?do it yourself? ethos, including dresses made out of trash bags and clothes constructed with other unusual materials like wire, metal chains and other hardware.
?No other movement has had a more enduring influence on high fashion,? Andrew Bolton, the show?s curator, said during a preview of the exhibit on Monday. ?Punk was all about celebrating individual creativity and not being afraid. It was about being brave and challenging the status quo, elements that have been embraced by the fashion world.?
For the celebrity obsessed, one of the most recognizable items in the exhibit is Gianni Versace?s safety-pin dress, which made a star out of model/actress Elizabeth Hurley. Hurley made headlines when she wore the gown to the 1994 premiere of ?Four Weddings and a Funeral,? starring her then-boyfriend Hugh Grant.
The clothes are accompanied by music and videos of old concert footage from the defining musical artists of the era, including Sid Vicious, Johnny Rotten, Blondie and the Ramones.
While the artists have been widely credited for their influence on rock music, Bolton said the Met?s goal was to also honor their style and how it shaped the fashion world.
?We always wanted the show to be about treating punks heroically and with the reverence they deserve in the history of fashion,? Bolton said. ?When you look at Sid Vicious or Johnny Rotten, they are extraordinary in terms of their individuality and their heroism [in terms of style]. We wanted to create almost altar pieces to them with the show.?
But the Met?s show has prompted mixed reactions among veterans of the punk movement who see the irony of a fancy museum paying homage to a genre that found its genesis in rebelling against the establishment and rich people.
On Monday, the punk exhibit was the central theme of the Met?s annual Costume Institute Ball, which was organized by fashion luminaries, including Vogue editor Anna Wintour, and attended by dozens of celebrities and society types who turned out in expensive frocks allegedly inspired by the punk aesthetic.
It was an event that seemed to be the antithesis of everything the punk movement rebelled against during its early days. Ahead of the ball, Legs McNeil, a legendary rock writer who created Punk magazine in 1975, raged against the exhibit and the ball in an interview with the New York Times, calling it a ?masturbatory fantasy for Anna Wintour and Vogue,? whom he accused of trying to co-opt a style that the fashion world once rejected.
In a review of the show published Monday, Times fashion critic Suzy Menkes gave the exhibit a lukewarm review for its ?sanitized and bloodless version of punk?s origins and influences.? Among other things, she criticized the exhibit for ignoring the Mohawk, a hairstyle that came to life in the punk era, in favor of outfitting mannequins with frizzy wigs.
But Bolton has pushed back against his critics, insisting it was never his goal to offer a ?comprehensive history? of the punk movement but rather to examine the ?impact? of punk on couture over the last 40 years.
?It meant many different things to people, and it still does. People feel an ownership of it, even those who didn?t live through it and experience it directly,? Bolton said.
He added, ?Punk began as an impulse, as a feeling. It?s this emotional connection that makes it so difficult to define or identify or characterize. What we tried to do was show how it engaged and inspired the imagination.?
Denver Nuggets head coach George Karl, left, jokes with Portland Trail Blazers head coach Terry Stotts before an NBA basketball game in Denver, Sunday, April 14, 2013. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)
In recent years, George Karl has marked off major career accomplishments, and Wednesday he got another big one ? his first NBA coach of the year award.
With a roster of players that didn't have an all-star, a schedule that put the Nuggets on the road for 22 of their first 32 games and injuries to key players, the Nuggets flourished under Karl's direction. They finished with a franchise-record 57 wins, had the league's best home record (38-3) and had streaks of 15 wins overall and 24 consecutive home wins. Their 57-25 mark was the fourth-best record in the NBA.
"What I hope everybody understands is this is not about me," Karl said Thursday morning at news conference where he accepted the Red Auerbach Trophy. "It's about a lot of people, and a lot of people in my past. And I am proud to have that trophy."
The Nuggets finished third in the Western Conference, though they were upset by sixth-seeded Golden State in the first round of the playoffs.
But this is a regular-season award, and the Nuggets were as good as most teams in the league. As a result, Karl received 404 votes, including 62 first-place votes. The award is voted on by a panel of 121 sports writers and broadcasters.
Miami coach Erik Spoelstra finished second in the voting followed by New York's Mike Woodson, San Antonio's Gregg Popovich and Indiana's Frank Vogel.
During the season, Karl earned two Western Conference coach of the month awards. He is the sixth-winningest coach in NBA history and his 1,131 wins are the most of any active coach.
He is the second coach in franchise history, after Doug Moe, to garner the honor. Moe won the 1987-88 season when the Nuggets went 54-28 and advanced to the conference semifinals.
In 8? seasons as the Nuggets head coach, Karl is 423-257 in the regular season with three division titles and 21-39 in the playoffs. In 25 seasons as head coach, Karl is 1,131-756 in the regular season and 80-105 in the playoffs. He's coached 22 times in the postseason.
Streetsblog Chicago's John Greenfield tips us to the anonymous (for now) Logan Square Driver, who Greenfield says is the Stephen Colbert of the Safe Streets Movement.
Like Colbert's skewering of conservative media by posing as an oft clueless bloviator, Logan Square Driver advocates making streets safe for pedestrians, bicyclists and other non-drivers by donning the guise of an entitled asshole motorist who feels sharing the road with bicycles is an inconvenience, at best.
Logan Square Driver's Twitter feed has been live since last September. The Tumblr site went up a couple weeks ago. Greenfield writes whoever is behind the anonymous (for now) blog has a good knowledge of the local transportation history and the urban planning issues at the heart of the "drivers versus cyclists" argument. Calling motorists "True Warriors," Logan Square Driver asks drivers to make fun of cyclists who choose to use a "toy" to get around town while "dressed like a superhero."
Take this post where LSD theorizes on what could happen if trucks are lost.
My hat goes off to Michael Ennis, who deploys this tactic beautifully when complaining about Seattle?s anti-driver policies hurting ?Boeing executives who need to move airplane parts around the region, and for the freight industry that needs to get goods to market.? He paints a picture in which anything that hurts the working man who just wants to use his car to drive around the block to pick up a gallon of milk also hurts the successful executive who wants to ship two tons of steel to a factory!
This risk when using this tactic, of course, is the the brighter members of the co-op-shopping crowd may recognize that it is, in fact, trucks, rather than passenger vehicles, that deliver such goods. Have no fear! Instead, take a page from the True Warriors in Prospect Park West, who, led by Chuck Schumer?s lovely wife, went so far as to sue to remove bike lanes. Fedex and the Postal Service, it turns out, use the same road space as our single-occupant-vehicles! In other words, anything that inconviences us, inconveniences them (the engines of our economy, I remind you), which further inconveniences us! In other words, anything that inconviences drivers is by definition exponentially inconvenient to everyone! Including ambulance drivers!
The Twitter feed is just as funny, but in a smaller number of characters.
In a city that's given us the @MayorEmanuel Twitter feed, the SoYeahDuh! Tumblr and Twitter and other social media accounts parodying real-life Chicago politicians, political and social issues and everyday life, Logan Square Driver is a welcome addition.
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When running a local Domain server for a couple of PC's as i do. The users local data is wiped on logging off , thus the preferences for this app and the download lists dissapear each time DUHH
can a different location be spacified for the config file and file lists on the command line so that this app can be used
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Exactly 18 years ago today, Reggie Miller beat New York in Game 1 of the 1995 Eastern Conference Semifinals with his iconic ?eight points in 8.9 seconds? run. And now with New York and Indiana meeting again to relive their playoff rivalry, Miller and Spike Lee are having their own little game-within-the-game.
To juice up the fans? emotions earlier in the day, Reggie baited them all on Twitter:
Later, Spike made out like Chris Bosh in a postgame interview, videobombing Miller like a pro.
But the best part of all didn?t come until the final moments of New York?s 26-point blowout win. As the seconds were ticking away in the fourth quarter, we?re pretty sure we could make out a ?Reg-gie sucks!? chant serenading down from the upper deck. Eighteen years later and the fans still haven?t forgotten.
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