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Twenty-one percent of the 1,000 adults who replied to the survey conducted Thursday through Sunday said it was very likely or somewhat likely their conversations had been wiretapped, while 52 percent said it was not at all likely.
The USDA plans to make every owner of even one horse, cow, pig, goat, sheep, chicken, or pigeon register in a government database and subject their property and animals to constant federal and state government surveillance, and the animal owner will
The National Counterterrorism Center maintains a central repository of 325,000 names of international terrorism suspects or people who allegedly aid them, a number that has more than quadrupled since the fall of 2003, according to counterterrorism of
Christian Bailey and Paige Craig were living in a half-renovated Washington group house, with a string of failed startup companies behind them until they began winning multimillion-dollar contracts to produce propaganda in Iraq.
Pre-Sept. 11 intelligence conducted by a secret military unit identified terrorist ringleader Mohamed Atta 13 different times. Rep. Curt Weldon (R-PA), said the unit—code-named "Able Danger"—also identified "a problem" in Yemen 2
Struggling to boost it ranks in wartime, the Army has increased the number of recruits who would normally be barred because of criminal misconduct or alcohol and illegal drug problems. 1 in 6 recruits had a problem that disqualified them from militar
Britain's lower chamber of Parliament voted for now to require all citizens who want a passport to have a national identity card as well — a compromise on a measure that originally required all Britons to carry a national ID card. [We'll be b
The Road To Guantanamo, tells the story of 3 British Muslims who travelled in 2002 to a wedding in Pakistan and ended up as terrorist suspects at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp. They were released in 2004.
BERLIN, Feb 14 (Reuters) - The story of three friends who said they set off from Britain for a wedding overseas and ended up as terrorist suspects in Guantanamo Bay is the theme of a provocative and disturbing new film by Michael Winterbottom.
The president of the Flemish Socialist Party, Johan Vande Lanotte, believes that in 10 years time the number of Belgian troops should be cut from 40,000 to 20,000, with the remaining soldiers integrated into a still-to-be-created European army at a l
MORE photographs have been leaked of Iraqi citizens tortured by US soldiers at the notorious Abu Ghraib prison on the outskirts of Baghdad.
In the decade since they voted to join the European Union the islanders of the Aland archipelago in the Baltic Sea have been outvoted and overruled by Brussels, time and again. Now they'll teach Brussels a lesson in democracy it may never forget.
An article at MSNBC's Website was edited to remove references to alcohol, that may have been available at a picnic, which preceded the accidental shooting of a 78-year-old lawyer by Vice President Cheney last Saturday.
Surveillance cameras might soon be required at corner taverns and swanky nightclubs. Mayor Richard Daley wants to identify people entering and leaving the building, eventually including convenience stores, would have to do the same.
Congressional Democrats, led by Rep. Obey of Wisconsin, introduced a bill, H.R. 4694, that would end viable, third-party competition in races for the U.S. House of Representatives.
The Bush administration declared Tuesday that the United States has entered a new phase in its economic relationship with China and promised "rigorous enforcement" of laws aimed at curbing unfair trade practices.
When the government of Malaysia sought to repair its tarnished image in the U.S. by arranging a meeting between President Bush and its controversial prime minister in 2002, it called on lobbyist Jack Abramoff for help.
Grim phrases are on the lips of diplomats, government officials, and aid workers in Kabul when describing Afghanistan these days. Narco state, political disillusionment, military stalemate, donor fatigue, American military pullout.
A former NSA employee said there is another ongoing top-secret surveillance program that might have violated millions of Americans' Constitutional rights. Far more wide-ranging than the warrentless wiretapping recently exposed by the NY Times but
The IRS said that unpaid taxes amounted to $345 billion in 2001, traced mostly to individuals underreporting their income who own their own business. President Bush wants to shrink the gap between taxes owed and taxes paid.
Congress appeared ready to launch an investigation into the Bush administration's warrantless domestic surveillance program last week, but an all-out White House lobbying campaign has dramatically slowed the effort and may kill it, key Republican
"Karl [Rove] was constrained, as was the entire [Whitehouse] communications operation, because the Vice President had arranged for how this [shooting] was to come out."
Many of the left-behinds and their colleagues will now be leaking embarrassing material to enterprising reporters like so many sieves, just as their outraged peers at the CIA, the NSA, the Justice Department, FEMA, and so many other purged and mangle
Syria has switched all of the state's foreign currency transactions to euros from dollars amid a political confrontation with the US, the head of state-owned Commercial Bank of Syria said. "This is a precaution. We are talking about billions
Three former associates of Jack Abramoff say the now-convicted lobbyist frequently told them he had strong ties to the White House through presidential confidant Karl Rove. Frequently Abramoff's cell phone would ring and the lobbyist would tell t
It isn’t just the men beating the teenagers, or the soldier filming the crime who are culpable. The film was shown on a military base in Europe before a whistleblower came forward. Many people witness a crime and take it for entertainment. One person
Under pressure from a FOIA lawsuit, the Justice Department conceded it could begin releasing as early as March 3 the internal legal memos relied on by the Bush administration in setting up the controversial NSA warrantless wiretapping program.
Free-speech advocates have blasted Google and other Internet companies for bowing to China's demands that they censor or turn over information on the communist government's behalf. Congress has proposed legislation to hobble the companies as
People who believe the Constitution would break if it didn't change with society are "idiots," U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia says. "Scalia does have a philosophy, it's called originalism," he said. "That
A computer programmer turned electronic vote-rigging software whistleblower, is planning a run for the US Congressional seat in Florida currently occupied by the man who Curtis alleged once asked him to create a vote-rigging software prototype progra
