• Ehrlich Wants Paper Ballots For Nov. Vote (p)(f)
  A week after the primary election was plagued by human error and technical glitches, Maryland Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. (R) called yesterday for the state to scrap its $106 million electronic voting apparatus and revert to a paper ballot system for the November election. September 21, 2006; Page A01
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• Election Officials Seek Out Data Cards (p)(f)
  four dozen cards -- holding potentially hundreds or more votes -- had not yet been uploaded into a central server. Sep 21, 2006
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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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• EPA Pesticide Testing on Children (p)(f)
  A new rule by the Environmental Protection Agency governing pesticide tests on humans is sparking protests from congressional Democrats and environmentalists, who say it fails to adequately protect vulnerable test subjects. Washington Post Jan 24, 2006
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• Ex-FDA Chief Would Not Aid Plan B Inquiry (p)(f)
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• Ex-Surveillance Judge Criticizes Warrantless Taps (f)
  A federal judge who used to authorize wiretaps in terrorism and espionage cases criticized yesterday President Bush's decision to order warrantless surveillance after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. "We have to understand you can fight the war [on terrorism] and lose everything if you have no civil liberties left when you get through fighting the war," said Royce C. Lamberth, a U.S. District Court judge in Washington and a former presiding judge of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, speaking at the American Library Association's annual convention. July 30, 2007
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• Experts Examine Bush Health Plan (p)(f)
  Economists are still sorting out the implications of the broad health-care proposals President Bush unveiled this week, but already some clear winners and losers are emerging. Jan 25, 2007
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• F.B.I. Raid Divides G.O.P. Lawmakers and White House - New York Times (p)(f)
  Resentment boiled among senior Republicans for a second day on Tuesday after a team of warrant-bearing agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation turned up at a closed House office building on Saturday evening, demanded entry to the office of a lawmaker and spent the night going through his files. May 24, 2006 NYT
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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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• 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)
  www.9-11pdp.org Dec 5, 2005
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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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• 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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