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July 2006

July 31, 2006, Editorial/The New York Times, Fooling the Voters

July 31, 2006, Democracy Now!, Enemy Combatant: Moazzam Begg on his Imprisonment at Guantanamo, Bagram, and Kandahar

July 31, 2006, Andrew Buncombe, The Independent/UK, New maximum-security jail to open at Guantanamo Bay

July 31, 2006, Greg Miller, The Los Angeles Times, US Agency Hid Cost Overruns in Iraq, Audit Finds

July 31, 2006, Edward Wong, The New York Times, Tours extended for 4,000 GIs, raising doubt on pullout

July 30, 2006, Edward M. Kennedy, Opinion/The Washington Post, Roberts and Alito Misled Us

July 30, 2006, Anne Plummer Flaherty, Associated Press, Bush administration proposal would bar US terror suspects from civilian courts

July 29, 2006, Dan Eggen, Washington Post, Grand Jury Probes News Leaks at NSA;
Fired Officer Russell Tice Subpoenaed for Aug. 2

July 28, Walter Pincus, Washington Post, Intelligence Panel Cites Progress and Shortfalls at FBI

July 28, 2006, Reuters, U.N. rights body tells US to shut "secret" jails

July 28, 2006, Jeremiah Marquez, Associated Press, Judge Backs Release of Islamic Fundraiser

July 28, 2006, Anushka Asthana, The Washington Post, Immigrant Rights Groups Split Over Senate Bill

July 28, 2006, Spencer S. Hsu, Legal Residents Face Fingerprinting at Ports

July 28, 2006, Lara Jakes Jordan, Associated Press, House Cites Shortcomings of Intel Reforms

July 28, 2006, Scott Lindlaw, Associated Press, ACLU Cites Surveillance of Anti-War Groups

July 28, 2006, Editorial/The Washington Post, Signing Off

July 28, 2006, R. Jeffery Smith, The Washington Post, On Prosecuting Detainees

July 28, 2006, Toni Locy, Associated Press, Court Wants More Guantanamo Arguments

July 28, 2006, R. Jeffrey Smith, The Washington Post, Detainee Abuse Charges Feared

July 27, 2006, Eric Lipton, The New York Times, Green Cards Would Mean Fingerprinting at Airports

July 27, 2006, Luke O'Brien, Wired News, License Plate Tracking for All

Juy 27, 2006, Brian E. Fogarty, Minneapolis Star-Tribune, What We Can Learn From 1920s Germany

July 27, 2006, Griff Witte & Spencer S. Hsu, The Washington Post, Homeland Security Contracts Abused

July 27, 2006, Walter Pincus, The Washington Post, Officials Urge Law to Allow Eavesdropping

July 27, 2006, Andrew Taylor, Associated Press, Administration Seeks Wiretap Changes

July 27, 2006, David S. Cloud & Sheryl Gay Stolberg, The New York Times, White House Bill Proposes System to Try Detainees

July 27, 2006, R. Jeffrey Smith & Josh White, The Washington Post, Proposal Calls for Tribunal-Style Trials

July 26, 2006, Shreema Mehta, The NewStandard, Electronic Patient Data System Raises Privacy Concerns

July 26, 2006, Sam Hananel, Associated Press, Asking about NSA program gets Mo. sued

July 26, 2006, Democracy Now!, American Bar Association: President Bush is "Underming Rule of Law" By Ignoring Laws Passed by Congress

July 26, 2006, Editorial/The Washington Post, Blank Check to Spy

July 26, 2006, Mike Robinson, Associated Press, Judge Dismisses Lawsuit On AT& T Data Handover

July 26, 2006, Reuters, White House has draft bill on terror trials - report

July 26, 2006, Editorial/The Washington Post, What the Hamdan Ruling Really Meant

July 26, 2006, Ruth Marcus, The Washington Post, Ashcroft Nostalgia

July 25, 2006, Laurie Kellman, Associated Press, Sen. Specter Readies Bill to Sue Bush

July 25, 2006, Dan Froomkin, The Washington Post, An Imminent Threat (to the Constitution)

July 25, 2006, Barry Levine, Sci-Tech Today, What Does the NSA Know About You?

July 25, 2006, Bloomberg.com, Guantanamo Inmate Families Renew Bid to Force U.K. Intervention

July 25, 2006, Reuters, Ex-Guantanamo Spaniard cleared by supreme court

July 24, 2006, American Bar Association, BLUE-RIBBON TASK FORCE FINDS PRESIDENT BUSH'S SIGNING STATEMENTS
UNDERMINE SEPARATION OF POWERS

July 24, 2006, David Cole, New York Review of Books/Tom Dispatch, Why the Supreme Court Said No

July 24, 2006, Christina Lamb, Denver Channel, Marshals: Innocent People Placed On 'Watch List' To Meet Quota

July 24, 2006, Aziz Huq, Opinion/TomPaine.com, Wiretapping Unbound

July 24, 2006, John Kifner & Timothy Egan, The New York Times, Officer Faces Court-Martial for Refusing to Deploy to Iraq

July 24, 2006, Charlie Savage, The Boston Globe, Civil Rights Hiring Shifted in Bush Era

July 24, 2006, Katherine Haley Will, The Washington Post, Big Brother on Campus

July 24, 2006, Michael Abramowitz, The Washington Post, Bush's Tactic of Refusing Laws Is Probed

July 24, 2006, The Associated Press, Group Accuses Jordan of Torturing for U.S.

July 23, 2006, Peter D. Kramer, The Washington Post, Do No Harm: A medical ethicist accuses prison doctors at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo of abetting abuse.

July 23, 2006, David B. Caruso, Associated Press, Human Rights Watch alleges prisoner abuse, says detainees were mistreated after '04 scandal

July 23, 2006, Todd Dvorak, Associated Press, Dissenters take their fight to the courts

July 22, 2006, Mark Mazzetti, New York Times, C.I.A. Worker Says Message on Torture Got Her Fired

July 21, 2006, Brian Bennett and Adam Zagorin, Time Magazine, More Legal Trouble at Gitmo: Salim Hamdan's legal notes confiscated

July 21, 2006, Anushka Asthana, The Washington Post, Domestic Detainee From 9/11 Released

July 21, 2006, James Bovard, Opinion/The Boston Globe, The 'terrorist' batting average

July 21, 2006, Dana Milbank, The Washington Post, For Bush and the NAACP, Uneasy Does It

July 21, 2006, Vicki Allen, Reuters, White House talking on Guantanamo trials

July 21, 2006, Dana Priest, The Washington Post, Top-Secret World Loses Blogger

July 21, 2006, David Kravets, Associated Press, Judge Won't Dismiss Eavesdropping Lawsuit

July 21, 2006, Dan Eggen, The Washington Post, Surveillance Bill Meets Resistance in Senate

July 21, 2006, Charles Babington, The Washington Post, Voting Rights Act Extension Passes In Senate, 98 to 0

July 20, 2006, Adam Tanner, Reuters, Judge rejects U.S. request on eavesdropping lawsuit

July 20, 2006, Matt Kelley, USA Today, Feds sharpen secret tools for data mining

July 20, 2006, Huck Gutman, Common Dreams/Opinion, Lying about the Ruinous Cost of the War in Iraq

July 20, 2006, Demian Bulwa, San Francisco Chronicle, Terror Database Tracks University of California Protests

July 20, 2006, Michael Abramowitz, The Washington Post, Conservative Anger Grows Over Bush's Foreign Policy

July 20, 2006, Lara Jakes Jordan, Associated Press, Katrina Audit Shows Fraud, Abuse

July 20, 2006, Editorial/The New York Times, Tap-Dancing as Fast as He Can

July 20, 2006, Matt Spetalnik, Reuters, Bush confronts limits of power in world crises

July 20, 2006, Walter Pincus, The Washington Post, Detainees Used Al-Qaeda Prison Manual, Report Says

July 20, 2006, Democracy Now!, Report Confirms Chicago Police Tortured Black Prisoners

July 19, 2006, Mark Sherman, Associated Press, Bush Blocked Eavesdropping Program Probe

July 19, 2006, Matthew Rothschild, The Progressive, Homeland Security Spies on Student Anti-War Groups

July 19, 2006, ACLU Press Release, ACLU Says New Specter-Cheney NSA Bill Provides Sham Oversight, Says Congress Must Be Independent of the Executive

July 19, 2006, Catherine Komp, The NewStandard, Specter Caves to White House Demands on NSA Bill

July 19, 2006, Carl Jeffers, Op-Ed/The Seattle Times, Supreme Court, media team up to rein in Bush excesses

July 19, 2006, Joanne Mariner, FindLaw, "Enemy Combatants" Who Have Never Seen Combat

July 19, 2006, Editorial, The Boston Globe, Try detainees lawfully

July 18, 2006, Alexander G. Higgins, Associated Press, U.N. Human Rights Experts Chastise U.S.

July 18 2006, Robert Pear, The New York Times, Bush Administration Plans Medicare Changes

July 18, 2006, Adrian Croft, Reuters, Yo Bush! Blair Mocked as US Poodle

July 18, 2006, Neal Pierce, Seattle Times, Repairing American Democracy

July 17, 2006, Alison Espach, CNS News, Gov't Documents Prove Abuse of Patriot Act, Says ACLU

July 17, 2006, Andrew Buncombe, The Guardian UK, Bush "Will Be Given More Power to Eavesdrop" in Bill

July 17, 2006, Morning Call, White House barely has to budge in Sen. Specter's surveillance compromise

July 17, 2006, Joseph Margulies, Editorial/The Washington Post, Wiggle Room on Cruelty

July 17, 2006, Peter Spiegel, The Los Angeles Times, Is US Winning? Army Chief Is at a Loss

July 16, 2006, David S. Broder & Dan Balz, The Washington Post, How Common Ground of 9/11 Gave Way to Partisan Split

July 16, 2006, Editorial, The New York Times, The Real Agenda

July 16, 2006, Morton H. Halperin, Editorial/The Los Angeles Times, Bush: Worse Than Nixon

July 16, 2006, Editorial/The Los Angeles Times, License to wiretap

July 15, 2006, Editor& Publisher, Staffers at Santa Barbara Paper Join Large Protest

July 15, 2006, Editorial, Washington Post, Wiretap Surrender

July 15, 2006, Eric Lichtblau, New York Times, Wiretapping critics oppose secret court

July 15, 2006, Andrew Buncombe, The Independent, Bush 'will be given more power to eavesdrop' in bill

July 14, 2006, Vicki Allen, Reuters, White House sends mixed signals on detainee trials

July 14, 2006, Jane Sutton, Reuters, Saudis expected home from Guantanamo within year

July 14, 2006, R. Jeffrey Smith & Jonathan Weisman, The Washington Post, Policy Rewrite Reveals Rift in Administration

July 14, 2006, Andrew Cohen, The Washington Post, NSA Review Must Include the Supreme Court

July 14, 2006, Charles Babington & Peter Baker, The Washington Post, Bush Compromises On Spying Program

July 13, 2006, Jessica Azulay, The NewStandard, Military Contorts Over Apparent Detainee Policy Shift

July 13, David Swanson, truthout, Geneva Convention? We Thought You Said Geneva Chocolate

July 13, 2006, ACLU Press Release, U.S. Government Increasingly Blocking Entry at the Border Because of Ideology, ACLU Says

July 13, 2006, Haider Rizvi, One World, Prisons at Center of Damning Report on U.S. Human Rights

July 13, 2006, William Fisher, Inter Press Service, U.S. Democracy Crusade Falls by the Wayside

July 13, 2006, Mira Oberman, Agence France Presses, US Judge to Rule on Legality of Warrantless Wiretaps

July 13, 2006, Democracy Now!, Spy or Risk Green Card: How the Bush Administration 'Recruits' Muslim Informants

July 13, 2006, Op-Ed/The New York Times, The Rule of Law: Recognizing the Power of the Courts, Finally

July 13, 2006, Reuters, UN head cheers US review of Guantanamo detainees

July 13, 2006, Jonathan Weisman, Battle Looms In Congress Over Military Tribunals

July 13, 2006, Jane Sutton, Reuters, Geneva policy won't halt US interrogations

July 13, 2006, Edmund L. Andrews, The New York Times, Republicans Criticize Lack of Briefings on Bank Data

July 12, 2006, Jonathan Hafetz, Jurist, Hamdan and the Guantanamo Detainees

July 12, 2006, Jan Ferl, Op-Ed/Alternet, Could Bush Be Prosecuted for War Crimes?

July 12, 2006, The Associated Press, Group Wants Financial Data Kept From U.S.

July 12, 2006, Charles Lane, The Washington Post, GOP Senator Criticizes Appeals Court Nominee

July 12, 2006, Nat Hentoff, Opinion/The Lake Sun Leader, Bush alone decides what is law

July 12, 2006, Charles Babington & Michael Abramowitz, U.S. Shifts Policy on Geneva Conventions

July 12, 2006, Dana Milbank, The Washington Post, It's Bush's Way or the Highway on Guantanamo Bay

July 12, 2006, Thomas E. Ricks, The Washington Post, U.S. Troops Will Benefit From Clarity, Experts Say

July 12, 2006, Thierry Leveque, Reuters, French prosecutor seeks jail for 5 Guantanamo men

July 12, 2006, Andrew Cohen, The Washington Post, The Gitmo Solution Already Exists

July 12, 2006, CNN, Official: Leak of financial intelligence program 'very damaging'

July 12, 2006, Thom Hartmann, Op-Ed/Common Dreams, Reclaiming the Issues: "Why Is Bush Spying on Democrats?!?"

July 11, 2006, Anne Plummer Flaherty, The Associated Press, U.S. Will Give Detainees Geneva Rights

July 11, Jessica Pupovac, The NewStandard, Chill of Govt. Surveillance Grips Activists, Muslims

July 11, 2006, ACLU Press Release, Senior Defense Department Officials' Failure to Provide Clear Interrogation Policy Resulted in Abuses, Documents Show

July 11, 2006, Eric Lichtblau & Scott Shane, The New York Times, Ally Warned Bush on Keeping Spying From Congress

July 11, 2006, Sarah Karush, The Associated Press, Judge Hears Arguments in Spy Program Case

July 11, 2006, Jui Chakravorty, Reuters, White House asks for dismissal of NSA wiretap suit

July 11, 2006, Jill Lawless, The Associated Press, 2 Britons Appeal Extradition to U.S.

July 11, 2006, Dana Priest, The Washington Post, Rethinking Embattled Tactics in Terror War

July 11, 2006, Democracy Now!, Veteran Journalist Robert Scheer on Playing President

July 11, 2006, Tabassum Zakaria, Reuters, Guantanamo prisoners won't be moved to US: White House

July 10, 2006, San Antonio Express News, Bob Richter: Going after the Freedom of Information Act is a slippery slope

July 10, 2006, Declan McCullagh, CNet News, FBI plans new Net-tapping push

July 10, 2006, U.S. Newswire, CCR Publishes First Report on Torture at Guantanamo with Declassified Primary Accounts from Current Detainees and Attorneys

July 10, 2006, Michael Isikoff & Stuart Taylor Jr., Newsweek, The Gitmo Fallout

July 10, 2006, Gregg Krupa, The Detroit News, Hearing begins on spying program

July 10, 2006, Charles Babington, The Washington Post, Hoekstra Urges Bush to Impart Intelligence Details

July 10, 2006, Ben Nuckols, The Associated Press, 13 Cited for Protest at NSA Headquarters

July 10, 2006, The Associated Press, LOS ANGELES Man Detained In Iraq Sues U.S.

July 10, 2006, Richard Willing, USA TODAY, With only a letter, FBI can gather private data

July 10, 2006, Peter Selvin, The Washington Post, Bringing the Church to the Courtroom

July 9, 2006, David Rossie, Binghamton Press & Sun-Bulletin, Political Scoundrels Hide Behind Terrorism

July 9, 2006, Steve H. Miles, Op-Ed/The Washington Post, Medical Oaths Betrayed

July 9, 2006, Jim Hoagland, Op-Ed/ The Washington Post, Bush's Unintended Internationalism

July 8, 2006, Daniel Schorr, The Christian Science Monitor, The government's current war with the free press

July 8, 2006, Craig S. Smith & Souad Mekhennet, The New York Times, Algerian Tells of Dark Odyssey in US Hands

July 8, 2006, Ben Fox, The Associated Press, Guantanamo Probe Finds Evidence of Plot

July 8, 2006, Bill Dunn, Capital Times, Government spying protest Saturday

July 8, 2006, Aziz Huq, TomPaine.com, What Geneva Means to Hamdan

July 7, 2006, Peter Nicholas, The LOS ANGELES Times, State Releases Anti-Terrorism Intelligence Reports

July 7, 2006, Molly Ivins, TruthDig, More Immigrant-Bashing On the Way

July 7, 2006, Suzanne Goldberg, The Guardian UK, Bush Told Cheney to Discredit Diplomat Critical of Iraq Policy

July 7, 2006, David Ignatius, The Washington Post, A Way Out of Guantanamo Bay

July 7, 2006, Charles Krauthammer, Op-Ed/The Washington Post, Emergency Over, Saith the Court

July 7, 2006, Richard Willing, USA Today, Tax Dollars to Fund Study on Restricting Public Data

July 7, 2006, Jane Meyer, The New Yorker, The Hidden Power

July 7, 2006, Hal Brenton, Seattle Times, Army Charges Lieutenant Who Wouldn't Go to Iraq

July 6, 2006, Howard Zinn, Alternet, Patriotism and the Fourth of July

July 6, 2006, Jeff Barnard, The Associated Press, ACLU Sues Over Security for Bush Protest

July 6, 2006, John Lichfield, Belfast Telegraph, French agents questioned detainees in Guantanamo

July 6, 2006, Oxford Analytica/Forbes, U.S. Ruling Will Not Close Guantanamo

July 6, 2006, Mark Trevelyan, Reuters, Pressure mounts over Europe-CIA collaboration

July 6, 2006, David S. Broder, Washington Post, The Court Hands Congress an Opportunity

July 6, 2006, Democracy Now!, Vietnam-Era Veteran Arrested at VA Medical Center for Wearing Peace T-Shirt

July 6, 2006, Gene H. McIntyre, Salem Statesman Journal, Self-evident truths paint a sad picture

July 6, 2006, Editorial/Reformer, Constitutional protections

July 5, 2006, Reuters, France says Guantanamo visits were administrative

July 5, 2006, Gordon Adams, Baltimore Sun, The Politics of Fear, the Revenge of Hope

July 5, 2006, Gregory D. Foster, The Baltimore Sun, Celebrate the Patriotism of Dissent

July 5, 2006, Medea Benjamin, CommonDreams, Commemorating July 4 by Launching a “Troops Home Fast”

July 5, 2006, Bloomberg, Spy Agency Sought US Call Records Before 9/11, Lawyers Say

July 5, 2006, Anick Jesdanun, The Associated Press, EFF Defends Liberties in High-Tech World

July 5, 2006, Holly Manges Jones, Jurist, Guantanamo lawyers balk at more filings in detainee cases

July 5, 2006, Jon Boyle, Reuters, Secret agent interviews rock French terrorism trial

July 5, 2006, The Herald Tribune, The choice on Guantanamo

July 5, 2006, Reuters, Guantanamo inmate's lawyers want Australian review

July 5, 2006, Democracy Now!, Guantanamo Attorney: The Supreme Court Ruling on Tribunals Proves “The Entire Structure of the War on Terror is Unlawful”

July 4, 2006, Howard Zinn, AlterNet, Patriotism and the Fourth of July

July 4, 2006, Richard Cohen, The Washington Post/Op-Ed, Judicial Audacity, Well-Founded

July 4, 2006, Mitchell Freedman , Newsday, Compromise Allows Signs on Iraq War at July 4 Parade

July 3, 2006, Richard B. Schmitt, The Los Angeles Times, Congress Faces Dilemma on Terror Trials

July 3, 2006, David E. Sanger & Scott Shane, The New York Times, Court's Ruling Is Likely to Force Negotiations Over Presidential Power

July 3, 2006, Adam Zagorin, TIME Magazine, At Guantanamo, Dying Is Not Permitted

July 3, 2006, James Bovard, The American Conservative, Power of the Pen

July 3, 2006, James Bovard, The Baltimore Sun/Op-Ed, Surveillance of financial transactions goes too far

July 2, 2006, Laura Kurtzman, The Washington Post, California Official Denies Monitoring Protesters

July 2, 2006, The Washington Post/Editorial, Let There Be Law

July 2, 2006, Josh White, The Washington Post, Hurdle to Closing Guantanamo: Where to Put Inmates

July 2, 2006, Kerstin Gehmlich, Reuters, Ex-Guantanamo prisoners go on trial in France

July 2, 2006, Matt Spetalnick, Reuters, Democrats urge broader view of Bush war powers

July 2, 2006, Pete Yost, The Associated Press, Supreme Court Ruling Troubles GOP Senators

July 2, 2006, The Washington Post/Editorial, Let There Be Law

July 1, 2006, Nadia Abou El-Magd, The Associated Press, Gonzales Backs Handling of Terror Suspects

July 1, 2006, Peter Nicholas, The Los Angeles Times, Governor's Office Tracking Political, Anti-War Groups

July 1, 2006, Ben Fox, The Associated Press, Guantanamo Lawyers Say Letters Seized

July 1, 2006, Robert Tanner, The Associated Press, Civil liberties advocates decry expanded DNA tests

July 1, 2006, The Associated Press, N.J. Prepared to Help Border Patrol