In the News
Archives December 2003
December 31, 2003, Medea Benjamin, Alternet, 10 Good Things About a Bad Year
December 31, 2003, Douglas Jehl, New York Times, Philippines to Deport U.S. Brothers Held in Terror Inquiry
December 31, 2003, Rod Smith, Gaming News, Casinos, Airlines Ordered to Give FBI Information
December 31, 2003, Edward Wenk, Jr., Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Threats to Democracy at Code-Red Level
December 31, 2003, Vicki Chachere, AP, Al-Arian to Challenge Patriot Act
December 29, 2003, Jeff Donn, AP, Expanded Fed Role Against Common Crime Called 'Out of Control'
December 27, 2003, Berny Morson, Rocky Mountain News, Protesters Cry Foul, Claim Their Actions Were Nonviolent
December 27, 2003, Brian Foley, Counter Punch, Act Now to Save the Constitution
December 26, 2003, Tom Troy, Toledo Blade, Patriot Act Produces Wave of Opposition Across Nation
December 24, 2003, David Martin, PHX News, With a Whisper, Not a Bang, Bush Signs Part of Patriot II Into Law--Stealthily
December 24, 2003, Emily Jane Goodman, Gotham Gazette, The Bill of Rights Resolution
December 23, 2003, Robert Scheer, AlterNet, Secrets, Lies and Media Privilege
December 22, 2003, Joanne Mariner, CNN, Battlefield Chicago? In the Padilla Case, Federal Court Says No
December 22, 2003, Richard B. Schmitt, L.A. Times, Flaws Seen in War on Terror Data
December 22, 2003, Christopher H. Schmitt and Edward T. Pound, NOW and U.S. News and World Report, Keeping Secrets: The Bush Administration is Doing the Public's Business Out of the Public Eye. Here's How--and Why
December 22, 2003, Stacy A. Teicher, Christian Science Monitor, It's 2 a.m. Do you Know Where Your Workers Are?
December 21, 2003, Adam Liptak, New York Times, Court Leaves the Door Open for Safety System Wiretaps in Autos
December 21, 2003, Editors, The Washington Post, Fairness for Detainees
December 19, 2003, Nat Hentoff, The Village Voice, Criminalizing Librarians
December 19, 2003, Geov Parrish, WorkingForChange.com, Setback for Ashcroft's Radical Agenda
December 19, 2003, Reynolds Holding, San Francisco Chronicle, Courts Affirm Rights of Terror Suspects, Judges Reject Bush Policies on Prisoners in Cuba and U.S.
December 19, 2003, Henry Weinstein, LA Times, Guantanamo Detainees Win Legal Battle
December 19, 2003, David Johnston, The New York Times, In Debate on Antiterrorsim, the Courts Assert Themselves
December 19, 2003, Jim Lobe, OneWorld.net, Rights, Liberties Groups Hail Court Defeats for Bush Anti-terror Measures
December 18, 2003, CBS News, 9/11 Chair: Attack Was Preventable
December 18, 2003, CNN, Court: President Cannot Detain U.S. Citizen as Enemy Combatant
December 18, 2003, Dan Eggen, Washington Post, Justice Dept. Finds Evidence of Abuse of Sept. 11 Detainees
December 18, 2003, Mother Jones, Homeland Insecurity
December 17, 2003, Paul Krugman, International Herald Tribune, Profiteering and Patriotism
December 17, 2003, Nina Bernstein, The New York Times, Crime Database Misused for Civil Issues, Suit Says
December 17, 2003, Reuters, Ashcroft Admonished for Meddling in Terror Case
December 17, 2003, Tom Regan, Christian Science Monitor, Report: Danger of Growing Complacence in U.S. About Terrorism
December 17, 2003, Tom Hundley, Chicago Tribune, Britain Holds 14 Foreigners
December 16, 2003, David Sirota, Christy Harvey and Judd Legum, The Progress Report, Homeland Security: Gilmore's Rebuke
December 16, 2003, Peter Roff, Insight, U.S. Archives Names Top Ten U.S. Documents
December 16, 2003, Philip Shenon, New York Times, Panel on Terror Calls for Board on Protecting Civil Liberties
December 15, 2003, Nat Hentoff, The Washington Times, John Ashcroft: Unintentional First Amendment Promoter
December 15, 2003, Benjamin Duncan, Aljazeera.net, Fears Over Patriot Act
December 15, 2003, David Cunningham, the Boston Globe, Squelching Dissent in the Name of Democracy
December 15, 2003, Brigid O'Neil, Common Dreams, Uncle Sam's Guantanamo Prison: Outside the Rule of Law
December 14, 2003, Audrey Hudson, The Washington Times, Bug Devices Track Officials at Summit
December 14, 2003, AP, Bush Signs Intelligence Bill Expanding FBI Authority to Demand Business Records
December 14, 2003, Charlie Savage, Boston Globe, Post-9/11 Limits on Dissent Claimed
December 13, 2003, CBS News, New FBI Intel Rules Worry Critics
December 12, 2003, Ryan Singel, Wired, Profiling System Takeoff Delayed
December 12, 2003, Eric Lichtblau and Timothy L. O'Brien, New York Times, Efforts to Fight Terror Financing Reported to Lag
December 12, 2003, Charlie Savage, Boston Globe, Patriot Act Hearings Sought by Democrats
December 12, 2003, Colleen Creamer, Nashville City Paper, League of Cities to Adopt Federal Resolutions
December 11, 2003, Ron Harris, AP, Prize-Winning Drawing Called 'Hate Speech;' Pulled Over 'Insurance Issues'
December 11, 2003, Alan Cooperman, Washington Post, Secret Service Takes Blame for Waiter's Exit
December 11, 2003, John Soloman, AP, Detroit Terror Case in Danger of Reversal
December 10, 2003, Roger Normand, The Nation, Facing the Human Rights Abyss
December 10, 2003, Charisse Jones, USA Today, Terror Suspect's Attorney Lands in the Spotlight
December 9, 2003, Ryan Singel, Wired, Immigrant Database Draws Fire
December 9, 2003, Toni Locy, USA Today, Courts Test U.S. Strategy in Legal War on Terror
December 9, 2003, Ryan Singel, Wired, Immigrant Database Draws Fire
December 8, 2003, AP, Officials: Some Bail Bondsmen Keeping Money From Immigrants
December 7, 2003, Robyn E. Blumner, St. Petersburg Times, From Tommy Franks, a Doomsday Scenerio
December 6, 2003, Tom Stephens, Counter Punch, Above and Beyond the Law, Justice Takes a Holiday
December 5, 2003, Audrey Hudson, The Washington Times, Bill Seen as Threat to Civil Liberties
December 5, 2003, Charlie Savage, The Boston Globe, Guantanamo Ruling Seen Triggering Shift in Detainees
December 5, 2003, Duane Bourne, St. Petersburg Times, Protesters Say Freedoms Snapped Away
December 4, 2003, Nat Hentoff, Village Voice, J. Edgar Hoover Back at the 'New' FBI
December 4, 2003, Reuters, Guantanamo Lawyer Quits After Threat
December 4, 2003, CBS News, Silencing Voices of Dissent
December 4, 2003, Charles Proctor, Daily Bruin, Academic Activists Fear Greater Surveillance
December 4, 2003, Eric Lichtblau, New York Times, Appeals Court Casts Doubt on Parts of Key Antiterrorism Law
December 4, 2003, Larry Margasak, AP, Court Hears Appeal on Moussaoui
December 4, 2003, Charles Levendosky, International Herald Tribune, Dismantling U.S. Democracy
December 3, 2003, James Meek, The Guardian, US fires Guantanamo defence team
December 2, 2003, Paul Koring, Globe and Mail, Guantanamo Releases Related to Court Ruling
December 2, 2003, Laurence Arnold, AP, Report: U.S. Weak in Sharing Terror Info
December 1, 2003, Frank Griffiths, AP, U.S. to Transfer 100 Detainees from Guantanamo
December 1, 2003, Joanne Mariner, Find Law, A Guantanamo-Size Hole in the Constitution
December 1, 2003, Editors, Tri-City Herald, Ashcroft's Suspicions Need a Reality Check



