• Federal Appeals Court Rules Against Bible Display At Texas Courthouse (p)(f)
  A federal appeals court has held that a Bible display outside a Texas county courthouse violates the separation of church and state. The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled yesterday that a religious memorial outside the Harris County Civil Courthouse violates the First Amendment principle of church-state separation. Aug 16, 2006
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• Federal Court Strikes Down NSA Warrantless Surveillance Program (p)(f)
  In an American Civil Liberties Union case, a federal court today ruled that the Bush administration’s program to monitor the phone calls and e-mails of Americans without warrants is unconstitutional and must be stopped. This is the first ruling by a federal court to strike down the controversial National Security Agency surveillance program. Aug 17, 2006
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• Federal Court Strikes Down Patriot Act National Security Letters
  A federal court today struck down the amended Patriot Act's National Security Letter (NSL) provision. The law has permitted the FBI to issue NSLs demanding private information about people within the United States without court approval, and to gag those who receive NSLs from discussing them. The court found that the gag power was unconstitutional and that because the statute prevented courts from engaging in meaningful judicial review of gags, it violated the First Amendment and the principle of separation of powers.
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• Feingold Seeks Senate Censure of Bush (p)(f)
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• Files Say Agency Initiated Growth of Spying Effort - New York Times (p)(f)
  The National Security Agency acted on its own authority, without a formal directive from President Bush, to expand its domestic surveillance operations in the weeks after the Sept. 11 attacks, according to declassified documents released Tuesday. New York Times Jan 4, 2006 Registration Required
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• Final Report on 9/11 Commission Recommendations December 5, 2005 (p)(f)
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• For Americans, Getting Sick Has Its Price (p)(f)
  Americans pay more when they get sick than people in other Western nations and get more confused, error-prone treatment, according to the largest survey to compare U.S. health care with other nations. Washington Post November 4, 2005; Page A02
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• For Muslim Who Says Violence Destroys Islam, Violent Threats
  New York Times (p)(f)
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• Former Abu Ghraib Guard Calls Top Brass Culpable for Abuse (p)(f)
  One of the original seven military police soldiers singled out by the Pentagon for their roles in abusive techniques, Ambuhl is speaking out because she believes the truth has been obscured by high-ranking officials intent on covering up a policy of abuse. Washington Post January 23, 2006; A03
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• Former Bush campaign official sentenced to prison (p)(f)
  A senior official in U.S. President George W. Bush’s re-election campaign was sentenced to 10 months in prison on Wednesday for his role in suppressing votes in a key U.S. Senate race, a scandal that Democrats charge may involve the White House. May 17, 2006
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• Fox News Sunday, Interview With President Bill Clinton, 9/22/06 (p)(f)
  I’m being asked this on the Fox network. ABC just had a right-wing conservative run in their little Pathway to 9/11, falsely claiming it was based on the 9/11 Commission report, with three things asserted against me directly contradicted by the 9/11 Commission report. And I think it’s very interesting that all the conservative Republicans, who now say I didn’t do enough, claimed that I was too obsessed with bin Laden. All of President Bush’s neo-cons thought I was too obsessed with bin Laden. [AND MUCH MORE]
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• Fox's Baier selectively cited New Yorker, Washington Post articles on Iran war planning; failed to note consideration of nuc...
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• Free Press : War on the Press (p)(f)
  America’s leadership is waging a war against the journalistic standards and practices that underpin not only a free press but our democracy. The Fourth Estate is withering under an unprecedented White House assault designed to intimidate, smear and discredit investigative journalism — and allow the president and his political cronies to lie with impunity.
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• Frist Says AMT Fix May Be Deferred (p)(f)
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• Gonzales Defends Surveillance (p)(f)
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• Gonzales: Congress doesn`t need to act on NSA program North County Times - North San Diego and Southwest Riverside County Ne...
  Attorney General Alberto Gonzales made clear Wednesday that the White House is not seeking congressional action to inscribe the National Security Agency`s monitoring into U.S. law, even as members of Congress negotiate with the Bush administration about legislation. MArch 8,2006
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• Gonzales's Truthfulness Long Disputed (f)
  When Alberto R. Gonzales was asked during his January 2005 confirmation hearing whether the Bush administration would ever allow wiretapping of U.S. citizens without warrants, he initially dismissed the query as a "hypothetical situation." But when Sen. Russell Feingold (D-Wis.) pressed him further, Gonzales declared: "It is not the policy or the agenda of this president to authorize actions that would be in contravention of our criminal statutes." July 30, 2007
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• Google defies US over search data (p)(f)
  The internet search engine Google is resisting efforts by the US Department of Justice to force it to hand over data about what people are looking for. CNN Jan 20, 2006
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• GOP Accepts Deal on Patriot Act (p)(f)
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• GOP Official Faces Sentence in Phone-Jamming (p)(f)
  In October 2002, Charles McGee, executive director of the New Hampshire Republican Party, was mailed a Democratic flier that offered Election Day rides to the polls. The circular listed telephone numbers of party offices in five cities and towns. "I paused and thought to myself, I might find out -- I might think of an idea of disrupting those operations," McGee later testified. May 17, 2006
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