July 30 & 31, 2004, Guantanamo:

• Associated press/The Washington Post, Military Hearing for Guantanamo Detainee Is a First
• Neil A. Lewis, The New York Times, New Fight on Guantánamo Rights
• John Mintz, The Washington Post, Four Detainees At Guantanamo To Get Hearings
• Gina Holland, The Herald Sun, Judge orders Guantanamo defence
• Associated press/USA TODAY, Judge orders U.S. to defend detentions
• Laure Bretton, Reuters/Common Dreams News Center, Frenchmen Say Guantanamo Detention Was Like Hell

July 30, 2004, Dana Priest & Walter Pincus, The Washington Post, Quick Fixes on Intelligence Considered: Administration Explores Short-Term Remedies to Diffuse Political Pressure From 9/11 Report

July 30, 2004, Lynette Clemetson, The New York Times, Homeland Security Given Data on Arab-Americans

July 30, 2004, Maureen O'Hagan, The Seattle Times, Marijuana smuggling case first local use of Patriot Act provision

July 30, 2004, Brian J. Karem, The Montgomery County Sentinel, The Patriot Act is anything but

July 29, 2004, Justin Rood, Congressional Quarterly/Page Fifteeen, Proposal for New White House Intelligence Center Raises Storm Warnings

July 29, 2004, Shannon McCaffrey, Knight Rider/Common Dreams News Center, Canadian Sent to Syrian Prison Disputes US Claims Against Torture

July 29, 2004, Peter Slevin, The Washington Post, Arab Americans Report Abuse: U.-Mich. Study Finds Nearly 60 Percent Fear for Families

July 29, 2004, Knight Rider/Tribune News Service, Military's shameful record of prisoner abuse

July 29, 2004, Eric Lichtblau, The New York Times, Whistle-Blowing Said to Be Factor in an F.B.I. Firing

July 28, 2004, Holy Land Foundation Indicted:

• for more information, see this article from March 12, 2004

July 28, 2004, Greta Wodele, GovExec.com, Panel urges passenger-screening plan similar to CAPPS II

July 28, 2004, Mark Tapscott, The Heritage Foundation, Spawning a Culture of Secrecy

July 28, 2004, The San Francisco Bay View, Webmaster Sherman Austin, jailed under PATRIOT Act, released to halfway house

July 28, 2004, Associated press/Common Dreams News Center, U.S. Wins Dubious 'Big Brother'

July 26, 2004, American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee Press Release, ADC and NLG File Lawsuit Against MBTA Searches in Boston

July 25, 2004, Michael Avery, truthout, The "Demonstration Zone" at the Democratic National Convention: An "Irretrievably Sad" Affront to the First Amendment

July 25, 2004, Eileen MacNamara, The Boston Globe, Fencing freedom in

July 25, 2004, Suzanne Smalley, The Boston Globe, Confusion reigns as security rules

July 25, 2004, Craig Whitlock, The Washington Post, A Secret Deportation Of Terror Suspects: 2 Men Reportedly Tortured in Egypt

July 24, 2004, Karen Abbott, Rocky Mountain News, Warnings precede party conventions: FBI, police visits to young people rile ACLU official

July 24, 2004, Jerry Markon, The Washington Post, Panel's Finding of Guilt Makes Fair Trial Harder

July 24, 2004, Sean P. Murphy, The Boston Globe, Libraries ordered to destroy US pamphlets

July 24, 2004, Editorial, The Washington Post, An Army Whitewash

July 24, 2004, Editorial, The New York Times, Abu Ghraib, Whitewashed

July 24, 2004, Eric Weslander, Lawrence Journal-World, FBI agents come calling on Lawrence anarchists: Investigators fear violent disruption of Democratic convention

July 23, 2004, Nat Hentoff, The Village Voice, 'Just Give Me My Son': Bush defies the Supreme Court by denying due process to noncitizen prisoners

July 23, 2004, United Press International/Fox23 News, 9-11 Panel Wants New Liberties Watchdog

July 23, 2004, The Daily Misleader, Ashcroft Publicly Misleads 9/11 Commission

July 23, 2004, Andris Straumanis, Minnesota Public Radio, Despite federal assurances, critics still worry about Patriot Act's reach

July 23, 2004, Mike Plaisance, The Republican, Library complies with Patriot Act

July 22, 2004, ACLU Press Release, 9/11 Commission Report Takes on Patriot Act, Government Secrecy; ACLU Outlines Civil Liberties Problems With Cabinet-Level Spymaster

July 22, 2004, Elise Ackerman, The Mercury News, Guantanamo techniques improperly used elsewhere, report finds

July 22, 2004, Associated press/CBSNews, Army Finds More Abuse Cases

July 22, 2004, Duncan Campbell, The Guardian, Rumsfeld knew all about me, says American 'jailer' held in Kabul

July 21, 2004, Rebecca Carr & George Edmonson, Cox News, Lawmakers Frustrated By Delays In Declassifying Documents

July 21, 2004, United Press International/The Washington Times, Yemen seeking Guantanamo inmates release

July 21, 2004, Jerry Seper, The Washington Times, Revolving door at border

July 19, 2004, Mike Schneider, Associated press/The Miami Herald, New FBI interviews amount to intimidation, CAIR leader says

July 20, 2004, Paul Krugman, The New York Times, The Arabian Candidate

July 19, 2004, Nat Hentoff, The Village Voice, The Ghost Prisoners: Exposing our secret interrogation centers—around and outside our laws

July 19, 2004, Allan Lengel, The Boston Globe, Anthrax investigation presses on 3 years later: Probe keeps returning to town in Maryland

July 18, 2004, Bert Dalmer, The Des Moines Register/Reclaim Democracy, Many of Bush Administration's Claimed "Terrorism" Arrests Are Misleading

July 18, 2004, Editorial, The Washington Post, More Patriot Act Games

July 18, 2004, Ralph Ranalli & Rick Klein, The Boston Globe, Surveillance targeted to convention: Wide network of cameras planned

July 18, 2004, Brian Bergstein, Associated press/USA TODAY, Crime database changing on privacy fears

July 18, 2004, David Rose, The Observer/Guardian Unlimited, Germany to drop 9/11 plot charges: Evidence against only man jailed for terror attack 'weak'

July 17, 2004, Geoffrey Forden, The Boston Globe, Protecting us without tainting the Constitution

July 17, 2004, Mary Beth Sheridan, The Washington Post, Interviews Of Muslims To Broaden: FBI Hopes to Avert A Terrorist Attack

July 17, 2004, INDOlink, Stop Racial Profiling Of US Muslims: House Democratic Leader

July 17, 2004, MoveOn/AlJazeera, U.S. hides videotapes of new abuse cases at Abu Ghraib

July 16, 2004, Neil A. Lewis, The New York Times, U.S. Is Readying Review Panels for Cuba Base

July 16, 2004, Ryan Singel, Wired News, Life After Death for CAPPS II?

July 16, 2004, Sara Kehaulani Goo & Robert O'Harrow Jr., The Washington Post, New Airline Screening System Postponed: Controversy Over Privacy Leads to CAPPS II Paring, Delay Until After Election

July 16, 2004, Abner Mikva, Washington Post Editorial, Dangerous Executive Power

July 15, 2004, Fox News, Florida Citizens to Help Catch Terrorists

July 15, 2004, Josh White & R. Jeffrey Smith, The Washington Post, House Panel Reviews Iraq Prison Reports

July 15, 2004, John J. Lumpkin, Associated press/The Boston Globe, Guantanamo detainee is 4th to face terrorism charges

July 15, 2004, Reuters/The New Zealand Herald, Ex-Guantanamo prisoner walks free

July 15, 2004, Editorial, The Washington Post, The CIA's Prisoners

July 15, 2004, Editorial, News Journal, The Patriot Act went too far

July 15, 2004, Robert Gard & Deborah Pearlstein, The San Francisco Chronicle, JUSTICE AND THE WAR ON TERRORISM: Extend high court rulings to all U.S. detainees

July 15, 2004, Randy Dotinga, Wired News, Make a Killing From Antiterrorism

July 15, 2004, Grant Gross, International Data Group/Computerworld, RFID users say no privacy law needed: Privacy advocates cite the need to protect consumers from potential RFID abuses

July 15, 2004, Michael Roberts, The Denver Westword, I Fathered a Terror Suspect: Losing the name game at our country's airports

July 14, 2004, Mimi Hall & Barbara DeLollis, USA TODAY, Plan to collect flier data canceled

July 14, 2004, The Washington Post, TSA May Change Screening: Redesign Considered for Airport Program

July 14, 2004, USA TODAY/Tucson Citizen, Ashcroft pushing Patriot Act extension

July 13-15, 2004: Department of Justice report on the USA PATRIOT Act:

• Editorial, The Washington Post, More Patriot Act Games
• Doug Moe, The Capital Times, Ashcroft takes credit, due or not
• Greg Kocher, The Herald-Leader, Internet records led investigators to couple's child porn
• Michael Isikoff & Mark Hosenball, Newsweek, At Work: The Patriot Act
• Shannon McCaffrey, Detroit Free Press, Report says Patriot Act has helped, Critics attack the study over case omissions
• Bryan Bender, The Boston Globe, AG touts Patriot Act; opponents unconvinced
• Tom Regan, The Christian Science Monitor, New skirmishes in the Patriot Act battle: Ashcroft report praises it, but opponents call report 'suspect.'
• ACLU Press Release, Ashcroft’s Patriot Act Report to Congress Omits Key Information, ACLU Says

July 13 & 14, 2004, House rejection of amendment to protect reader privacy:

• Ellyn Ferguson, The Olympian, Smith recants vote on Patriot Act
• Jim Brunner, The Seattle Times, Smith backtracks on vote opposing Patriot Act change
• Editorial, The Olympian, Our Views: Smith cast wrong vote on Patriot Act

July 13, 2004, James Ridgeway, The Village Voice, Speechless: Ashcroft again screws down the lid on whistle-blower Sibel Edmonds

July 13, 2004, Associated press/The Boston Herald, Treasury secretary says vigilance needed to deny financing to organizations that plan terrorist acts

July 13, 2004, Naomi Koppel, Associated press/Common Dreams News Center, Red Cross Fears U.S. Is Hiding Detainees

July 13, 2004, Bloomberg, U.S. Holds Terror Suspects at Secret Locations, Red Cross Says

July 13, 2004, Seth Kugel, The New York Times, An Immigrant, a Terrorist List and a Day Trip Gone Wrong

July 13, 2004, Editorial, The Advocate, Fighting terror shouldn't limit rights

July 10, 2004, Josh White, The Washington Post, U.S. to Tell Detainees of Rights: Pentagon Outlines New Procedures

July 10, 2004, William Glaberson, The New York Times, Man Gets 5 Years for Lying in Terror Inquiry

July 9, 2004, Nat Hentoff, The Village Voice, Putting Bush in His Place: The Supreme Court succeeds in stripping the president of unconstitutional authority

July 8 & 9, 2004, House rejects bill to protect reader privacy:

• Dan Morgan & Charles Babington, The Washington Post, House GOP Defends Patriot Act Powers: Partisan Rancor High as Plan to Soften Anti-Terror Law Is Defeated
• Eric Lichtblau, The New York Times, Effort to Curb Scope of Antiterrorism Law Falls Short
• Joel Barkin, Common Dreams News Center, Destroying Democracy
• Editorial, The San Francisco Chronicle, Arm twisting in Congress
• Alan Fram, Associated press/Common Dreams News Center, Bush Prevails as House Refuses to Curb Patriot Act
• Agence France Presse/Common Dreams News Center, White House Moves to Protect Right to Spy on Readers
• FINAL VOTE RESULTS

July 8, 2004, Associated press/CBS, Qaeda Still Chattering

July 8, 2004, Guantanamo trials and review hearings:

• Amnesty International Press Release, USA: Administration continues to show contempt for Guantánamo detainees' rights
• Charlie Savage, The Boston Globe, Tribunals to weigh detainees' status: Setup is response to Supreme Court ruling on rights
• John Mintz, The Washington Post, Pentagon Sets Hearings for 595 Detainees
• Bloomberg, Pentagon Says Nine More Guantanamo Detainees Will Face Trials

July 8, 2004, The Times Union/Associated Press, Ashcroft and the Patriot Act

July 7, 2004, Sarah Lai Stirland, GovExec, TSA tests 'trusted traveler' program amid concerns

July 7, 2004, Barbara Ehrenreich, Common Dreams News Center/Minneapolis Star Tribune, The King and W.: Their George and Ours

July 7, 2004, Bob Franken, CNN, Detainee will challenge U.S. tribunals: Supreme Court rulings provided client options, lawyer says

July 7, 2004, Clyde Wayne Crews Jr., The Washington Times, Can you overhear me now? (VoIP wiretapping)

July 7, 2004, Conor Gearty, The Guardian/Arab news/Al-Jazeerah, US in a Fix Over Court Ruling on Guantanamo Prisoners

July 6, 2004, Justin Rood, The Congressional Quarterly, Pentagon Has Access to Local Police Intelligence Through Office in Homeland Security Department

July 6, 2004, Saul Hansell, The New York Times, You've Got Mail (and Court Says Others Can Read It)

July 6, 2004, Gerald Carbone, The Providence Journal/Scripps Howard News Service, Patriot Act's surveillance contentious issue

July 6, 2004, Shaun Waterman, United Press International, Freed Gitmo detainees back in rebel ranks, officials say

July 6, 2004, Paisley Dodds, Associated Press, AP Tours Guantanamo Bay Detention Center

July 5, 2004, New York Times, Fingerprint Systems Superior in ID Tests

July 5, 2004, William Safire, The New York Times, Rights of Terror Suspects

July 5, 2004, Anne E. Kornblut, Boston Globe, Translator Sibel Edmonds in eye of storm on retroactive classification

July 5, 2004, Richard B. Schmitt, Los Angeles Times, FBI Delays Interviews in Fighting Terror Plot

July 5, 2004, David Johnston, The New York Times, Fears of Attack at Conventions Drive New Plans

July 4, 2004, Don Van Natta Jr. and Tim Golden, New York Times, Officials Detail a Detainee Deal by 3 Countries

July 4, 2004, R. Jeffrey Smith, Washington Post, Slim Legal Grounds for Torture Memos: Most Scholars Reject Broad View of Executive's Power

July 4, 2004, Sylvia Smith, Fort Wayne Journal Gazette editorial, Striking a Blow for Liberty

July 4, 2004, Elena Lappin, The New York Times, Your Country Is Safe From Me (foreign journalists denied entry into U.S.)

July 4, 2004, New York Times editorial, About Independence

July 3, 2004, Voice of America News, Lawsuit Challenges Guantanamo Prisoners' Detention

July 2, 2004, Nat Hentoff, Village Voice, Disappearing Prisoners

July 2, 2004, Brandon Mayfield, The Portland Tribune, Freedom takes vigilance, courage

July 2, 2004, Scott Gold, Los Angeles Times, Quiet End to Muslim Brothers' Trial

July 2, 2004, Editorial, The New York Times, Intercepting E-Mail

July 1 & 2, 2004, Supreme Court rulings (Guantanamo detainees, Padilla, Hadmi):

• David Cole, The Nation, No Blank Check
• Neil A. Lewis & David E. Sanger, The New York Times, Administration Changing Review at Guantánamo Bay
• Charles Lane, The Washington Post, Justices Move to Define Detainees' Court Access: Order Seeks Opinion From 9th Circuit About Where a Case Should Be Heard
• David Ignatius, The Washington Post, The Balance of Justice Amid a War
• Josh White, The Washington Post, Lawyers Seek Access To 53 at Guantanamo: Letter to Rumsfeld Faxed Yesterday

July 1, 2004, Jonathan Krim, The Washington Post, Court Limits Privacy Of E-Mail Messages: Providers Free to Monitor Communications

July 1, 2004, Associated press/New York Times, U.S. Drops Charges for Saudi Student