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Washington Post

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

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New York Times

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

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by Anthony Gregory (Lew Rockwell.com)

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

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Reuters

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

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Herald Sun

THE Pentagon has confirmed it will go ahead with plans to prosecute accused Australian terrorist David Hicks by military commission for "violations of the law of war" at the US military base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba

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Washington Post

Groups opposing the provision say the public access to the records recently brought to light unclassified DIA files that included photographs of prisoner abuses in Iraq and alleged criminal misconduct by agency employees.

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Washington Post

Offered to help the United States. Instead, Turkistani was taken to a US military base in Afghanistan, where he was stripped, bound and thrown behind bars. Then strapped him into an airplane, fitted him with dark goggles and sent him to the U.S. dete

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Washington Post

Just two days into an experimental program that would place undercover air marshals in train, bus, ferry and other mass transit stations, the Transportation Security Administration said its test has been scaled back, owing to confusion over the rollo

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CNET

What do mandatory drug testing, cigarette taxes and methamphetamine restrictions have to do with protecting America from terrorists? As far as I can tell, the answer is "nothing." But they nevertheless appear in a 219-page proposed law to r

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KSDK News

"There is no other agency that I am aware of where the agency is totally exempt either from FOIA or FACA," said Pete Weitzel, coordinator of the Coalition of Journalists for Open Government. "That is a cause for major concern and shoul

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Christian Science Monitor

An unusual coalition of lawmakers and activists opposed to parts of the USA Patriot Act is mounting a last push to persuade Congress to take more time before voting to extend some of the law's most controversial provisions.

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New York Times

Chinese officials have barred most newspapers outside of the immediate region of the incident to report on it, to banning place names and other keywords associated with the event from major Internet search engines, such as Google, to prevent news of

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MSNBC

A year ago, at a Quaker Meeting House in Fla., a small group of activists met to plan a protest of military recruiting at local high schools. What they didn't know was that their meeting had come to the attention of the U.S. military. A secret 40

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