In the News
Archives Index
Current News
Grassroots News
Archives - January 2004
January 30, 2004, Bruce Schneier, ZDNET, Total Surveillance Becoming Reality
January 30, 2004, Bill Nemitz, Portland Press Herald, Homeland Security? Search for Illegal Aliens Alienates City
January 30, 2004, Dan Eggen, Washington Post, Attorney General Defends Patriot Act
January 30, 2004, Declan McCullagh, CNET, Surveillance Powers Should Stand, U.S. Officials Say
January 29, 2004, Gina Holland, AP, Justice Warns Against Civil Rights Apathy
January 29, 2004, Curt Anderson, AP, Ashcroft: Bush Would Veto Bill Scaling Back Patriot Act (Also see Ashcroft's letter to Orrin Hatch, Chair, Committee on the Judiciary (PDF))
January 29, 2004, Jenny Falcon, Voice of America, USA Patriot Act Author Supports Some Modifications of Controversial Law
January 29, 2004, John A. Russo, San Francisco Chronicle, Patriot Act: Forgoing Liberty for Safety?
January 27, 2004, Rima Merriman, Jordan Times, Impact of U.S. Security Measures on Foreign Students
January 27, 2004, Dan Eggen Washington Post, 9/11 Panel Faults U.S. for Letting Hijackers In
January 27, 2004, Editors, New York Times, The Politics of Security
January 27, 2004, Matthew Rothschild, The Progressive, Blowing the Whistle on the Patriot Act
January 27, 2004, Eric Lichtblau, New York Times, Judge Voids Part of Antiterror Act
January 25, 2004, Editors, Knoville News-Sentinel, 'First Amendment Zones' Restrict Free Speech
January 24, 2004, Editors, St. Petersburg Times, MATRIX Repositioned
January 23, 2004, Agence France Presse, Canadian Sues U.S. for Sending Him to Syria for Torture
January 23, 2004, David Stout, New York Times, Bush Tells Mayors He Will Press for Urban Security Funds
January 22, 2004, Al Jazerra.net, U.S. Council Defies Bush Over Patriot Act
January 22, 2004, Eric Lichtblau, New York Times, Lawmakers Not Rushing to Take Up Terrorism Act
January 21, 2004, Shaun Waterman, UPI, Patriot Act Renewal a 'Can of Worms'
January 21, 2004, Nina Bernstein, New York Times, Trip Home Becaomes Kafkaesque Ordeal
January 21, 2004, Editors, Washington Post, Screening Terrorists
January 21, 2004, Chris Strohm, GovExec.com, September 11 Commission Faces Fight Over Deadline Extension
January 21, 2004, Haider Rizvi, Inter Press Service, Bush Pushes Plan to Permit Internet Surveillance
January 20, 2004, Declan McCullagh, CNET News, Bush Wants Patriot Act Renewed
January 20, 2004, Thanassis Cambanis, Boston Globe, Resistance to Patriot Act Gaining Ground
January 19, 2004, Geov Parrish, WorkingforChange.com, Martin Luther King: Terrorist?
January 19, 2004, Kari Lydersen, AlterNet, Civil Liberties: The 2004 Forecast
January 19, 2004, AP, Terror Financing Case in Florida Puts Patriot Act to the Test
January 18, 2004, Sara Kehaulani Goo, Washington Post, Northwest Gave U.S. Data on Passengers
January 17, 2004, Anne Gearan, AP, White House Asks Supreme Court for Ruling on Padilla
January 17-18, 2004, Marjorie Cohn, CounterPunch, The Guantanaom Concentration Camp, Wrong Treatment in the Wrong Place
January 16, 2004, Editors, The Gleaner, Detainees: All Have Right to Fair Trial
January 16, 2004, Sue Pleming, Reuters, U.S. Still Holds Child Detainees at Guantanamo
January 12-16, 2004, Supreme Court Refuses to Hear Case on Secrecy of 9-11 Detainees:
- January 12, 2004, David Stout, New York Times, Justices Refuse to Review Cases on Secrecy and 9/11 Detentions
- January 12, 2004, MAS Net, Supreme Court Rules U.S. Can Keep Secret Detainee Names
January 15, 2004, BBC News, Red Cross to Renew Guantanamo Call
January 15, 2004, Dan Eggem Washington Post, Military Tribunals May Try 9/11 Suspects
January 14, 2004, Editors, The New York Times, Keeping Detentions Secret
January 14, 2004, Kurt Nimmo, CounterPunch, Bush and the Supreme Court, Amputating the Bill of Rights
January 12, 2004, Pam Zubeck, The Gazette, Wedding Bells or Deportation Cells: Marriage Condition Absurd, Some Say
January 12, 2004, Sara Kehaulani Goo, Washington Post, U.S. to Push Airlines for Passenger Records
January 11, 2004, Louise Christian, The Guardian, Guantanamo Bay: A Global Experiment in Inhumanity
January 10, 2004, David G. Savage, L.A. Times, Justices to Rule on Rights of Terror Suspects; High Court Case Will Test Bush's Power to Jail Without Charges
January 9, 2004, Steve Lilienthal, The Washington Dispatch, Sleeping Better In Seattle: Passing The SAFE Act Resolution
January 9, 2004, Jordan Smith, The Austin Chronicle, Patriot II, Piece by Piece
January 8, 2004, Naomi Klein, The Nation, The Year of the Fake
January 8, 2004, Eric Lichtblau, New York Times, US Reasserts Right to Declare Citizens to be Enemy Combatants
January 7, 2003, Bill Berkowitz, WorkingforChange.com, America's Homegrown Terrorists
January 7, 2004, CNN, U.S. Tells Brazil to Change Security Program (Scroll down to bottom of page)
January 7, 2004, Scott Gold, Los Angeles Times, Case Yields Chilling Signs of Domestic Terror Plot
January 7, 2004, Chris Strohm, GovExec.com, Inaccurate Databanks Pose Challenge for New Visitor Tracking System
January 7, 2004, Arie Farnam, Christian Science Monitor, From Afar, Americans Try to Steer Presidential Election
January 7, 2004, Rod Smith, Gaming Wire, Sources: FBI Gathered Visitor Information Only in Las Vegas
January 7, 2004, Kareem Fahim, Village Voice, Britain's Dark Places: The Other Guantanamos
January 6, 2004, Earl Ofari Hutchinson, Bush's Dubious Scorecard on Terrorist Prosecutions
January 6, 2004, Kim Zetter, Wired, Bush Grabs New Power for FBI
January 2004, Jaime Adame, Gotham Gazette, Civil Liberties and Police Surveillance
January-February 2004, Rob Gurwitt, Mother Jones, Defender of the Free World
January 5, 2004, William New, National Journal's Technology Daily, Pentagon Failed to Study Privacy Issues in Data-Mining Effort, IG Says
January 5, 2004, Joanne Mariner, FindLaw, Interrogation, Torture, The Constitution, and the Courts
January 5, 2004, Editors, The Washington Post, Silence on the Hill . . .
January 5, 2004, AP, U.S. Begins Tracking Foreign Arrivals
January 5, 2004, Audrey Hudson, The Washington Times, Cities in Revolt Over Patriot Act
January 4, 2004, James Bovard, San Francisco Chronicle, Quarantining Dissent: How the Secret Service Protects Bush from Free Speech
January 4, 2004, Jimmy Breslin, Newsday, The New American System of Justice
January 4, 2004, Kenneth Roth, L.A. Times, In Bush's America, Rules of War Trump Civil Law
January 4, 2004, Christopher Pyle, San Francisco Chronicle, Torture by Proxy: How Immigration Threw a Traveler to the Woods
January 4, 2004, Editors, The Washington Post, Too Much Power
January 3-4, 2004, Kurt Nimmo, CounterPunch, Watch Out for Organic Farmers! Ashcroft Goes After the Left
January 3-4, 2004, Mike Whitney, CounterPunch, Constitution in the Crosshairs
January 2, 2004, Frank Oliveri, Gannett News Service, Police Database Called Intrusive by Rights Group