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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
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
5 government whistleblowers said they had faced retaliation for calling attention to alleged government wrongs, such as prisoner abuse in Iraq and illegal surveillance at the NSA. Told their stories to the House Government Reform Committee's nati
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 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.
MORE photographs have been leaked of Iraqi citizens tortured by US soldiers at the notorious Abu Ghraib prison on the outskirts of Baghdad.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Liberty Loving Bloggers and Blog readers will want to add this one to their blog rolls and favorites. Kent Snider Director of Ron Paul's Liberty Comittee launches new blog.
"The work has resumed (at the Natanz enrichment facility)," said Javad Vaidi, a member of Iran's Supreme National Security Council.
Mr. Hackett said Senators Charles E. Schumer (D-NY) and Harry Reid (D-NV), the same party leaders who persuaded him to enter the Senate race, had pushed him to step aside so that Rep. Sherrod Brown, could take on the Republican incumbent.
"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."
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
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.
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
Waste and fraud marked the federal government's assistance programs for Hurricane Katrina victims, with 10,000 mobile homes going unused and evacuees spending emergency money on nude dancing, tattoos, casino gambling and a diamond engagement rin
The 78-year-old lawyer who was shot by Vice President Dick Cheney in a hunting accident has some birdshot lodged in his heart and he had a "a minor heart attack" this morning, hospital officials said.
House Resources Committee, Rep. Richard Pombo (R-CA) has a long, sordid history of treating the US Treasury as a personal slush fund that might finally be catching up with him. So let's get caught up ourselves: “This August, my family and I rente
The high-flying housing market should make a safe landing by gradually losing altitude, the White House suggested. "A gradual slowing of homebuilding appears more likely than a sharp drop because the elevated level of house prices will sustain h
When Chinese companies flooded the Nigerian market with cheaper versions of the generators Rex Nwankwu once imported from Italy, he said his business was imperiled. "People would rather buy the cheap and inferior Chinese generators, than buy one
A Muslim cultural institute in Germany criticised Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for disparaging the Holocaust, daring him to visit the Auschwitz concentration camp. "In this place of horror he can again deny the Holocaust, if he has the
In another sign of the pressing demand for officers, the Army is recalling hundreds of officers who had returned to civilian life but who are still subject to call-up, sparking protests from some who have already served in Iraq and now face more than
