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The Justice Department acknowledged, in a letter to Congress, that the president's October 2001 eavesdropping order did not comply with "the 'procedures' of" the law. FISA made it a offense to conduct electronic surveillance
A Milan court has issued a European arrest warrant for 22 CIA agents suspected of kidnapping an Egyptian cleric from Italy's financial capital in 2003, Prosecutor Armando Spataro said
Testifying before a Senate committee last April, Gen. Michael V. Hayden, then head of the NSA, emphasized how scrupulously the agency was protecting Americans from its electronic snooping. "We are, I would offer, the most aggressive agency in th
"The word, conservatively, is 'epidemic,' " says Edward Looney, executive director of the Council on Compulsive Gambling of New Jersey. He attributes poker's surge to its glamorization on TV shows such as Bravo's Celebrity P
Two former employees of the nation's main pro-Israel lobby, who are facing trial for allegedly receiving classified information and relaying it to foreign diplomats and the press, are considering lawsuits against the lobbying powerhouse.
Mexico is trying to form a united front in Latin American against a US plan to build a fence along hundreds of miles of its southern border.
The investigation has highlighted the close relationship between the 535 members of Congress and the 27,000 registered lobbyists who shower them with sports tickets and other perks.
Preliminary results in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad indicate that our boy Ahmed Chalabi’s Iraqi National Congress scored a minuscule 0.36 percent of the votes. Out of almost 2.5 million voters in Baghdad, only 8,645 voted for Chalabi.
According to a White House fact sheet, 2005 was a year full of "accomplishments" -- six, single-spaced pages worth distributed to reporters as Bush left town for his holiday break.
The new national surveillance network for tracking car journeys is only the beginning of plans to monitor the movements of all British citizens. Already working on ways of automatically recognising human faces by computer introducing Orwellian stree
Astronomers aided by the Hubble Space Telescope have spied two more rings encircling Uranus, the first additions to the planet's ring system in nearly two decades.
A wave of arrests across Europe has thrown new light on a European terrorist network being developed by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the most prominent insurgent in Iraq.
President Bush calls indicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff "an equal money dispenser'' who helped politicians of both parties. Campaign donation records show Republicans [who are in charge] were a lot more equal than Democrats.
A inquiry by the House and Senate intelligence committees blamed interagency communication breakdowns — not shortcomings of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act or any other intelligence-gathering guidelines. The incident Bush referred to involv
Okay, I'm all for zero restriction gun ownership, but this is just plain weird: Santa Claus points a handgun at a masked terrorist on a Christmas card that the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, sent this year to a number of
Cheney also offered a treatise on how presidential power has waxed and waned through history, calling the presidency a weak institution in the late 1800s, which then got stronger under Theodore Roosevelt.
Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald is not expected to shut down his investigation into the leak of covert CIA officer Valerie Plame Wilson when he finishes his inquiry of White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove's role in the leak
The presiding judge of a secret court that oversees government surveillance in espionage and terrorism cases is arranging a classified briefing for her fellow judges to address their concerns about the legality of President Bush's domestic spying
The agreement would give India access to US nuclear technology, including fuel and reactors, that it has been denied for 25 years. Experts fear that India would acquire nuclear fuel from the US for civilian use, thus freeing up its own stocks for mor
The Sunni Arabs are upset that they are trailing the Kurds, being convinced that they are a much larger group. But since the seats have been allocated to provinces on the basis of voting registration in Jan. 2005, that consideration is irrelevant.
Almost 50 Chinese Catholic priests and nuns holed up for a week in a building they claim as their own and surrounded by police vowed to stay put on Thursday until they get their way.
Nathan Warmack wanted to honor his heritage by wearing a Scottish kilt to his high school dance. Then a principal told him to change into a pair of pants.
Popular bipartisan legislation to try to halt the spread of methamphetamines already devastating some rural U.S. communities was delayed until next year by the Senate on Wednesday.
Republican leaders and Bush wanted to make most of the law permanent, but were stymied by a filibuster in the Senate and had to resort to a 6 month extension. "This will allow more time to finally agree on a bill that protects our rights and fre
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has been a thorn in Washington's side since taking office in 1999. He has threatened to interrupt vital oil shipments to the U.S. and claimed that President George W. Bush is planning an invasion to gain control
Just after being named House Intelligence Committee chairman, Rep. Pete Hoekstra, R-Mich., was invited to the White House for what he thought would be a get-acquainted meeting.
Election officials spooked by tampering in a test last week of Diebold optical-scan voting machines should be equally wary of optical-scan equipment produced by other manufacturers, according to a computer scientist who conducted the test. [They are
Terrorism and conflicts across the Middle East will be major global issues in 2006, U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said at a year-end news conference and he also lashed out at the media for its coverage of the oil-for-food program.
Undercover New York City police officers have conducted covert surveillance in the last 16 months of people protesting the Iraq war, bicycle riders taking part in mass rallies and even mourners at a street vigil for a cyclist killed in an accident, a
In a sharp rebuke, a appeals court denied a Bush administration request to transfer terrorism suspect Jose Padilla from military to civilian law enforcement custody, also refusing to vacate a ruling that gave Bush authority to detain "enemy comb
