• RNC Chief Defends Domestic Wiretaps (p)(f)
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• RNC Points To Spy Orders By Carter, Clinton (p)(f)
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• Ruling Limited Spying Efforts (f)
  A federal intelligence court judge earlier this year secretly declared a key element of the Bush administration's wiretapping efforts illegal, according to a lawmaker and government sources, providing a previously unstated rationale for fevered efforts by congressional lawmakers this week to expand the president's spying powers. Aug 3, 2007
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• Rumsfeld Offers Strategies for Current War (p)(f)
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• Rumsfeld Rebuked By Retired Generals (p)(f)
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• Rumsfeld Urges Using Media to Fight Terror (p)(f)
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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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• Scholar Stands by Post-9/11 Writings On Torture, Domestic Eavesdropping (p)(f)
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• Science vs. politics gets down and dirty (f)
  Science has been a field of battle from the earliest days of the Bush presidency. These are a few of the flashpoints in the struggle between many of the nation's scientists and the White House. Aug 5, 2007
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• Secret Court to Govern Wiretapping Plan - washingtonpost.com (p)(f)
  The Bush administration has agreed to shift course and let a secret but independent panel of federal judges oversee the government's controversial domestic spying program. The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court will have final say in approving wiretaps. Jan 17, 2007
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• Secret Surveillance May Have Occurred Before Authorization (p)(f)
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• Security agency whistleblowers seek stronger protections (2/14/06) (p)(f)
  The whistleblowers recounted their allegations and how they were retaliated against, in some cases by having their security clearances revoked or their careers ruined. They said agency managers seemed more focused on cover-ups and retaliation than investigating allegations or addressing exposed problems. govexec Feb 14, 2006
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• Security Of Electronic Voting Is Condemned (p)(f)
  Paperless electronic voting machines used throughout the Washington region and much of the country "cannot be made secure," according to draft recommendations issued this week by a federal agency that advises the U.S. Election Assistance Commission. Dec 1, 2006
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• Sen. Arlen Specter quizzes the attorney general (p)(f)
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• Senate Intel Cmte Report re Intel Community’s Prewar Intel Assessments on Iraq (p)(f)
  The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence’s Report on the U.S. Intelligence Community’s Prewar Assessments on Iraq is intended to provide the Senate and the American public with a substantial record of the facts underlying the conclusions of the Committee regarding the intelligence community’s prewar assessments of Iraq’s programs for weapons of mass destruction and its ties to terrorism. Sep 8, 2006
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• Senate Probes Clash Over CIA Reports on Iraq Arms (p)(f)
  The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence said in a September 8 report that it launched the investigation after the CIA's former chief of European clandestine operations appeared on the CBS' "60 Minutes" news magazine in April. The official, Tyler Drumheller, told CBS that the Iraqi government source had said Iraq had no active unconventional weapons program. Sep 15, 2006
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• Senator Specter Calls for Hearings on U.S. Spy Program - New York Times (p)(f)
  President Bush refused to say whether the National Security Agency eavesdropped without warrants on people inside the United States but leaders of Congress condemned the practice on Friday and promised to look into what the administration has done. NYT Dec 16, 2005
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• Senator Specter Speaks About Patriot Act, NSA (p)(f)
  Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter put the Bush administration on notice Friday that his panel would hold hearings into a report that the National Security Agency eavesdropped without warrants on people inside the United States. Washington Post Dec 16, 2005 VIDEO (did Not work for me)
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• Senators Agree on Detainee Rights (p)(f)
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• Senators Defy Bush On Terror Measure (p)(f)
  How to square the CIA’s techniques with the Geneva Conventions, which say wartime detainees must be “treated humanely.” Bush says the US complies with the conventions if interrogators abide by a 2005 law barring “cruel, inhuman, or degrading” treatment of captives. McCain and his allies say that is too narrow. CIA officers should abide by the common understanding of the treaty’s meaning, including a ban on “outrages upon personal dignity.”
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