• Defense lawyers challenge DUI breath test machine (p)(f)
  Timothy Muldowny`s lawyers decided on an unconventional approach to fight his drunken driving case: They sought computer programming information for the Intoxilyzer alcohol breath analysis machine to see whether his test was accurate. March 12,2006
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• FBI Violated Constitution in Raid (f)
  A federal appeals court today ruled that the FBI violated the Constitution during a search of Rep. William J. Jefferson's Capitol Hill office last year and ordered the agency to return all privileged materials. Aug 3, 2007 The Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia did not say that a raid on a congressional office was unconstitutional. But it ruled FBI agents skirted the law when they viewed paper documents during the May raid before giving the Louisiana Democrat an opportunity to challenge whether the papers were protected under the Constitution's "speech or debate" clause.
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• Freedom of Navigation - Ocean Report (f)
  The U.S. has always recognized and defended the traditional freedoms of navigation and overflight on and over the world's oceans for military and commercial purposes. Internationally agreed-upon freedoms of navigation key to our ability to import raw materials and export finished products to global markets are essential to our economic security. Freedom of navigation is also essential for national security, enabling the worldwide movement of U.S. military forces and the sealift and airlift needed for their support. [undated]
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• House approves changes in terror spy program (f)
  (08-05) 04:00 PDT Washington -- Under pressure from President Bush, the House on Saturday gave final approval to changes in a terrorist surveillance program despite serious objections from many Democrats about the scope of the executive branch's new eavesdropping power.
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• House Approves Wiretap Measure (f)
  a secret court ruling earlier this year that complicated the wiretapping of purely foreign communications that happen to pass through a communications node on U.S. soil. The bill would give the National Security Agency the right to collect such communications in the future without a warrant. But it goes further than that: It also would allow the interception and recording of electronic communications involving, at least in part, people "reasonably believed to be outside the United States" without a court's order or oversight. Aug 5, 2007
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• Md. Officials Oppose New Legal Policy At Comcast (f)
  Montgomery County officials have taken the unusual step of warning Comcast cable subscribers about an imminent change to the terms of their agreement with the cable provider that would limit customers' rights to take legal action. July 31, 2007
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• Same Agencies to Run, Oversee Surveillance Program (f)
  The Bush administration plans to leave oversight of its expanded foreign eavesdropping program to the same government officials who supervise the surveillance activities and to the intelligence personnel who carry them out, senior government officials said yesterday. Aug 7, 2007
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