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Reuters

President Bush denied the government was "trolling through" Americans' personal lives, despite a report that a domestic spy agency was collecting phone records of tens of millions of citizens. Defending his administration's espionag

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TPM Muckracker

"When the Attorney General was forced to testify before the House Judiciary Committee a few weeks ago, he misled the Committee about the existence of the program." On April 6, 2006, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales testified before the Hou

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Associated Press

Qwest Communications was the lone holdout in the telecommunications industry when it came to sharing telephone records with the National Security Agency but going it alone was nothing new for former CEO Joseph Nacchio. When the NSA came calling, N

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USA Today

The National Security Agency has been secretly collecting the phone call records of tens of millions of Americans, using data provided by AT&T, Verizon and BellSouth. The NSA program reaches into homes and businesses across the nation by amassing inf

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Associated Press

Congressional Republicans and Democrats demanded answers from the Bush administration about a government spy agency secretly collecting records of ordinary Americans' phone calls to build a database of every call made within the country. Facin

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Associated Press

Low-lying Cessna 172s fly in grid patterns over major cities, capturing eagle-eye images of every square foot from just about every direction. Instead of just the straight-down views that distant satellites gather, the planes photograph America

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Washington Post

The Pentagon's newest counterterrorism agency, charged with protecting military facilities and personnel wherever they are, is carrying out intelligence collection, analysis and operations within the United States and abroad, according to a Penta

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Marine Corp Times

"I understand if I was in civilian clothes. But with what we were wearing and what we were doing......," he said, noting that "we had a flag with us." (And why can they do this. BECAUSE THEY CAN)

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US News and World Report

In the Atlanta suburbs of DeKalb county, local officials wasted no time after the 9/11 attacks. The second-most populous county in Georgia, the area is home to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the FBI regional headquarters, and other

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Associated Press

A U.S. appeals panel sharply challenged the Bush administration over new rules making it easier for police and the FBI to wiretap Internet phone calls. A judge said the government’s courtroom arguments were “gobbledygook.” The skepticism expressed

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Associated Press

U.S. mass transit systems should remain alert against possible terror attacks, the Homeland Security Department said in a new warning that highlighted suspicious activity at unnamed European subway stations last fall. Homeland Security spokesman R

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Mainewebreport

Why is the state even involved in toursim? Here's the story of Lance Dutson, and the story of how the State of Maine Toursim Bureau is attacking him for his criticism of how the state is spending money on luring tourists here.

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Oregon Daily Emerald

Big Brother is watching you. At least that's the message sent by the Univeristy of Colorado-Boulder campus police last week following a massive student celebration on April 20 - the unofficial national pot smoking day.

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Los Angeles Times

The FBI issued thousands of subpoenas to banks, phone companies and Internet providers last year, aggressively using a power enhanced under the Patriot Act to monitor the activities of U.S. citizens, Justice Department data released late Friday showe

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Chris Strohm, National Journal's Technology Da

The Chinese government is implementing an unprecedented program to give its citizens RFID tags to verify their identities. China bought more than 100 million resident tags in 2005 and is expected to buy about 2.9 billion by 2009

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Let me run by you a brief list of items that are "the law" in America today. As you read, consider what all these have in common. The saddest and most telling answer is: They were all the product of the 104th Congress. Every one of the horr

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Democracy Now! (audio link)

During Democracy Now's recent trip to New Orleans, we managed to get inside the largest FEMA trailer park set up after Hurricane Katrina. Shortly after we interviewed hurricane evacuee Donna Azeez, we were kicked out of the park by security guard

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