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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
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.
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.
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.
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
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
A jury yesterday convicted a former national Republican official of two telephone harassment charges for his role in a phone-jamming plot against New Hampshire Democrats on Election Day 2002.
Jack Anderson, the Pulitzer Prize-winning muckraking columnist who struck fear into the hearts of corrupt or secretive politicians, inspiring Nixon operatives to plot his murder, has died at 83. The pill finally worked Liddy.
Bush singing his year in review. [Turn audio on.]
President Bush acknowledged that he had secretly authorized the NSA to eavesdrop on international communications of Americans and other domestic residents with known links to al Qaeda. Bush added that members of Congress had been notified of it more
A senior at UMass Dartmouth was visited by federal agents two months ago, after he requested a copy of Mao Tse-Tung's tome on Communism called "The Little Red Book" from the library.
President Bush said that senators who are blocking renewal of the terrorism-fighting Patriot Act are acting irresponsibly and standing in the way of protecting the country from attack.
Concerned that other additions to the Army's Field Manual on interrogations – specifically, 10 new classified pages – may open a back door to condoning practices that McCain is trying to prohibit.
The U.S. Senate and House of Representatives approved a revised $8 billion tax incentive package to help rebuild the hurricane-devastated Gulf Coast after resolving differences over tax breaks for casinos and affordable housing.
The House acted Friday to stem the tide of illegal immigration by taking steps to tighten border controls and stop unlawful immigrants from getting jobs. But lawmakers left for next year the tougher issue of what to do with the 11 million undocumente
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
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.
President Bush has personally authorized a secretive eavesdropping program in the United States more than three dozen times since October 2001.
Republican Sen. Conrad Burns is attempting to cut his ties to indicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff, saying he will return about $150,000 in donations he received from Abramoff and the lobbyist's clients and associates.
In a 279-109 vote, the GOP-controlled House approved a resolution saying the chamber is committed "to achieving victory in Iraq" and that setting an "artificial timetable" would be "fundamentally inconsistent with achieving v
"The president has authorized NSA to fully use its resources consistent with US law and the Constitution to defend the US and its citizens," the official said, adding that congressional leaders have also been briefed more than a dozen ti
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter put the Bush administration on notice that his panel would hold hearings into a report that the NSA eavesdropped without warrants on people inside the US.
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.
A group of U.S. senators, demanding increased protection of civil liberties, defied President George W. Bush on Friday by blocking renewal of the USA Patriot Act, a centerpiece of his war on terrorism. "God forbid that there be a terrorist attac
A political operative with hacking skills could alter the results of any election on Diebold-made voting machines -- and possibly other new voting systems in Florida -- according to the state capital's election supervisor, who said Diebold softwa
Some politicians will say something obligatory about Bill of Rights Day and the cherished freedoms and liberties of America's heritage, and perhaps about how the troops fighting in the foreign war du jour are fighting for those very freedo
The compromise version of the Patriot Act to which House and Senate conferees agreed last week and for which the House voted is an unforgivable assault on basic American values and core constitutional liberties.
The domestic debate on US policy towards Iraq is finally shifting against the war, with a majority of Americans supporting either immediate withdrawal or withdrawal within 2 years time. Two years might seem like a long while, but considering that the
Australians were warned today to stay away from beaches in three cities this weekend with police saying they have credible evidence that racial violence was being planned.
