• Bush Compromises On Spying Program (p)(f)
  Switching course on one of his most controversial anti-terrorism policies, President Bush agreed yesterday to submit the administration's warrantless surveillance program to a court for constitutional review. July 14, 2006
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• Bush defends CIA interrogations amid revolt (p)(f)
  President Bush on Saturday defended his proposals to allow tough questioning of suspected terrorists as necessary to keep Americans safe, despite a revolt in his own Republican Party over the issue. With the U.S. Congress considering legislation on how to try and question foreign terrorist suspects, Bush is pushing a proposal to allow for what he calls “an alternative set of procedures” forCIA interrogations.
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• Bush Retreats on Use of Executive Power - washingtonpost.com (f)
  President Bush's decision to submit his warrantless-surveillance program to the jurisdiction of a special intelligence court represents the latest step back from the expansive interpretation of executive power he has asserted since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. Jan 18, 2007
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• Bush won't reauthorize U.S. eavesdropping program (p)(f)
  President Bush has decided not to renew a program of domestic spying on terrorism suspects, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said on Wednesday, ending a tactic criticized for infringing on civil liberties. Jan 17, 2007
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• Bush's Potential CIA Pick Worries Some (p)(f)
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• CIA employees easily identified by Internet searches (p)(f)
  The identities of 2,600 CIA employees and the locations of two dozen of the agency`s covert workplaces in the United States can be found easily through Internet searches, according to an investigation by the Chicago Tribune. March 12, 2006
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• Comments Regarding the Proposed Automated Targeting System
  Comments Regarding the Proposed Automated Targeting System, DHS Docket 2007-0043 (9/5/2007)
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• Consistent Life - Home Page (p)(f)
  We are committed to the protection of life, which is threatened in today's world by war, abortion, poverty, racism, capital punishment and euthanasia. We believe that these issues are linked under a 'consistent ethic of life'. We challenge those working on all or some of these issues to maintain a cooperative spirit of peace, reconciliation, and respect in protecting the unprotected.
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• Court Denies Government’s Refusal to Turn Over NSA Documents
  A federal judge today rejected the government’s broad claims of secrecy in its refusal to make public documents involving the National Security Agency’s (NSA) warrantless wiretapping program. U.S. District Judge Henry Kennedy’s ruling comes in a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit brought last year by the American Civil Liberties Union, the National Security Archive and the Electronic Privacy Information Center. According to the court order, the Department of Justice must, by October 26, provide more substantial reasons for refusing to turn over certain documents.
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• Court is asked to end Bush spy effort (p)(f)
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• CRS Questions Presidential Authority for Warrantless Electronic Surveillance (p)(f)
  Congressionl Research Service Report: Recent media revelations that the President authorized the National Security Agency (NSA) to collect signals intelligence1 from communications involving U.S. persons within the United States, without obtaining a warrant or court order, raise numerous questions (PDF)
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• Data Mining Figured In Dispute Over NSA (f)
  A fierce dispute within the Bush administration in early 2004 over a National Security Agency warrantless surveillance program was related to concerns about the NSA's searches of huge computer databases, the New York Times reported today. July 29, 2007
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• Democrats Press GOP to Ease Off Game Plan for Voter Challenges (p)(f)
  Democrats and independent voting rights groups yesterday called on Maryland Republicans to repudiate their Election Day handbook that advises GOP poll watchers to aggressively challenge the credentials of voters. Nov 2, 2006
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• Democrats Seeking Probe of Spy Program
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• DenverPost.com - HOME (p)(f)
  The plan by Senate Republicans to step up oversight of the National Security Agency`s domestic surveillance program would also approve long-term eavesdropping on Americans without a court warrant, legal experts said on Wednesday. March 10, 2006
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• Disruption Of Hindu Senate Prayer Shows Religious Right Intolerance (f)
  Religious Right Activists Want Government To Reflect Only Their Faith, Says AU’s Lynn. Americans United for Separation of Church and State today deplored the disruption by Religious Right activists of a Hindu chaplain’s prayer to open the U.S. Senate. July 12, 2007
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• Domestic spying controversy - Baltimore Sun Archived Articles (p)(f)
  Archived coverage of the secret domestic wiretap authority granted to the National Secutiry Agency by the Bush administration. Baltimore Sun -- CHECK BACK FOR UPDATES
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• Domestic-spying panel briefed at White House (p)(f)
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• E.U. Report Faults 16 Nations in Probe Of Secret CIA Flights - washingtonpost.com (f)
  The European Parliament on Wednesday approved a report admonishing 15 European countries and Turkey for helping the CIA transport terrorism suspects held in secret or for failing to cooperate in the parliament's investigation of the practice.
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• Elections Chief Stars In Diebold Promotion (f)
  Linda H. Lamone, Maryland's elections administrator, is featured prominently promoting a Diebold Election Systems product that caused delays in last year's elections. Her appearance in the company's new marketing and sales brochure has critics asking whether she violated state ethics law by publicly promoting a vendor.
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