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New York Times

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

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New York Times

A surveillance program approved by President Bush to conduct eavesdropping without warrants has captured what are purely domestic communications, despite a requirement by the White House that one end of the intercepted conversations take place on for

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CBS News (Canada)

The Whitehorse school group is among a list of more than 1,500 anti-war groups considered a risk to American security. They have been lumped in with other organizations such as the Florida Quakers and student unions from major American universities.

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Washington Post

A federal judge has resigned from the court that oversees government surveillance in intelligence cases in protest of President Bush's secret authorization of a domestic spying program

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by Geoffrey R. Stone (HuffingtonPost.com)

In early 2002, President Bush secretly authorized the NSA to monitor international telephone calls and international email messages without any showing of probable cause to believe that a participant in the communication was involved in unlawful or t

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New York Times

Counterterrorism agents at the FBI have conducted numerous surveillance and intelligence-gathering operations that involved, at least indirectly, groups active in causes as diverse as the environment, animal cruelty and poverty relief, newly disclose

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Washington Post

FBI counterterrorism investigators are monitoring domestic U.S. advocacy groups engaged in antiwar, environmental, civil rights and other causes, the American Civil Liberties Union charged yesterday as it released new FBI records that it said detail

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The Raw Story

The President believes that he has the power to override the laws that Congress has passed. This isn't how our democratic system of government works. The President doesn't get to pick and choose which laws he wants to follow. He is president,

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UPI

US authorities must be able to determine a person's previously used identities and past activities. Some U.S. government agencies have made exceptional progress with biometric technologies. Biometrics—automated methods recognize persons based on

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Washington Post

Its Directorate of Field Activities (DX) "assists in preserving the most critical defense assets, disrupting adversaries and helping control the intelligence domain," ... surveillance of potentially threatening people or organizations insid

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Washington Post

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

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USA Today

James Bamford, author of two books on the National Security Agency, said "I didn't hear him specify any legal right, except his right as president, which in a democracy doesn't make much sense. What Bush said is he went around the law, w

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La Times

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.

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