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Digital video recording pioneer ReplayTV plans to announce it will start selling software to allow personal computers to tune in and record live television next year in a deal with Hauppauge Digital's Hauppauge Computer Works.
The NSA first began to conduct warrantless eavesdropping on telephone calls and e-mail messages between the US and Afghanistan months before President Bush officially authorized a broader version of the agency's special domestic collection progra
It would be "wholly imprudent" for the Supreme Court to hear Jose Padilla's challenge to his military detention as an enemy combatant, the Bush administration told the court in urging the justices to dismiss Mr. Padilla's case as mo
"In clandestine parlance, Lincoln Group was a 'cutout' — a third party — that would provide the military with plausible deniability," said a former Lincoln Group employee who worked on the operation. "To attribute products to [
Finally get a glimpse into the Iraqi experience, from four intrepid independent photojournalists. Begins with the American invasion and moves through the rise of the insurgency in Falluja and Sadr City and culminates with the siege of Najaf and the M
Sheehan pulls absolutely no punches in deeming the president and his top aides war criminals, liars, murderers, cowards, and morally corrupt political figures. As she reminds us, all they offer to justify the blood on their hands is smoke and mirrors
Colombia slammed the United States for interfering in the country's internal affairs after U.S. Ambassador William Wood said he was worried that far-right paramilitaries may interfere in upcoming elections.
Lawyers for a former pupil at a top British independent school have accused the government of colluding with the CIA to send him to a series of prisons where he was abused. Bisher al-Rawi, a former student at Millfield now being held at Guantanamo
Shades of Bush: Spymasters warned Tony Blair before the July 7 suicide bombings that Al-Qaeda was planning a “high priority” attack specifically aimed at the London Tube.
"Law enforcement traditionally has been supported when they use deadly force based on their belief that someone has a weapon," said Brian Tannebaum, FLA Assoc. of Criminal Defense Lawyers. "No charges will be filed — you can put all yo
Former Secretary of State Colin Powell said that the US will have a military presence in Iraq for years. And "the fact that we have procedures in place that would deal with people responsible for terrorist activities that is called rendition is
Repeated protestations from President Bush, Secretary of State Rice and other officials that "we do not torture" miss the point that the US has by any meaningful standard engaged in illegal cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment of prisoner
According to Deliso's two sources, the Turkish newspaper Hurriyet and former FBI translator Sibel Edmonds, the outing of Valerie Plame may have severely damaged a CIA operation to monitor a nuclear black market faciliated by the shadowy but well-
James Bamford, author of two books on the National Security Agency, said "I didn't hear him specify any legal right, except his right as president, which in a democracy doesn't make much sense. What Bush said is he went around the law, w
The high-ranking intelligence official, said Sen. Graham is "misremembering the briefings," which in fact were "very, very comprehensive." They were intended "to make sure the Hill knows this program in its entirety, in order
It was a year of clashes, between nature and man, science and religion, and sometimes even between scientists. Along the way, some important and amazing discoveries were made.
Lawmakers have been caught by surprise by the existence of secret US prisons abroad, the CIA's detention overseas of innocent foreigners, and the discovery that the military has been engaged in domestic spying. The GOP-controlled House and Senate
WASHINGTON — The Senate on Friday blocked legislation to renew the Patriot Act, delivering a dramatic rebuff to President Bush that reflected rising concern over his treatment of civil liberties and privacy rights in the war on terrorism.
One such document was not turned over to the grand jury by the Feb. 6, 2004 deadline: an email White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove had sent in July 2003 to then-Deputy National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley. In the email, Rove told Hadley t
A leading Sunni politician said Friday his party would be open to an alliance with secular Shiites and Kurds to form a coalition government to run the country once the results are in from this week's parliamentary elections.
Some 57 percent of those surveyed said the U.S. military should stay until Iraq is stabilized, while 36 percent favor an immediate troop withdrawal. A year ago, 71 percent of respondents favored keeping troops in Iraq until it was stabilized.
Two of the four presumed suicide bombers who killed 52 commuters in the July 7 London attacks were scrutinized by British intelligence last year but were not considered a threat.
U.S. Sen. Trent Lott is suing his insurance company over his beachfront Pascagoula home, which was leveled by Hurricane Katrina. The issue is whether a wind-driven storm surge is the same as flooding.
A German intelligence officer gave a CIA counterpart a file about a German citizen the US was holding as a terrorist suspect in Afghanistan in early 2004, a German magazine said on Saturday.
Sen. John McCain and several other lawmakers said on Friday that they would push to tighten lobbying rules as an influence-peddling scandal centered around former lobbyist Jack Abramoff continued to spread.
Copley columnist Doug Bandow resigned as senior fellow at the libertarian Cato Institute after admitting that he had accepted payments from indicted Washington lobbyist Jack Abramoff for writing articles favorable to his clients.
Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist's AIDS charity paid nearly a half-million dollars in consulting fees to members of his political inner circle, according to tax returns providing the first financial accounting of the presidential hopeful's
Thousands of people rallied on Friday to applaud "shock jock" Howard Stern, who after years of raging against government regulations on obscenity, broadcast his last show on public airwaves before heading to unregulated satellite radio.
On July 9, 2003, senior presidential adviser Karl Rove was well prepared as he returned a telephone call from columnist Robert Novak. On his desk were talking points and other briefing materials that then-White House Political Director Matt Schlapp a
House and Senate negotiators agreed to a measure that would enable the government to keep prisoners at Guantánamo Bay indefinitely bargaining with the Bush administration, Congressional negotiators eliminated an explicit ban on the use of torture der
