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July 31, 2006, Editorial, 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, Independent/UK, New maximum-security jail to open at Guantanamo Bay
July 31, 2006, Greg Miller, Los Angeles Times, US Agency Hid Cost Overruns in Iraq, Audit Finds
July 31, 2006, Edward Wong, New York Times, Tours extended for 4,000 GIs, raising doubt on pullout
July 30, 2006, Edward M. Kennedy, Editorial, 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, 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, Washington Post, Signing Off
July 28, 2006, R. Jeffery Smith, Washington Post, On Prosecuting Detainees
July 28, 2006, Toni Locy, Associated Press, Court Wants More Guantanamo Arguments
July 28, 2006, R. Jeffrey Smith, Washington Post, Detainee Abuse Charges Feared
July 27, 2006, Eric Lipton, 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, Washington Post, Homeland Security Contracts Abused
July 27, 2006, Walter Pincus, 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, New York Times, White House Bill Proposes System to Try Detainees
July 27, 2006, R. Jeffrey Smith & Josh White, Washington Post, Proposal Calls for Tribunal-Style Trials
July 26, 2006, Shreema Mehta, 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, 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, Washington Post, What the Hamdan Ruling Really Meant
July 26, 2006, Ruth Marcus, Washington Post, Ashcroft Nostalgia
July 25, 2006, Laurie Kellman, Associated Press, Sen. Specter Readies Bill to Sue Bush
July 25, 2006, Dan Froomkin, 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 Signign 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, Editorial, TomPaine.com, Wiretapping Unbound
July 24, 2006, John Kifner & Timothy Egan, New York Times, Officer Faces Court-Martial for Refusing to Deploy to Iraq
July 24, 2006, Charlie Savage, Boston Globe, Civil Rights Hiring Shifted in Bush Era
July 24, 2006, Katherine Haley Will, Washington Post, Big Brother on Campus
July 24, 2006, Michael Abramowitz, Washington Post, Bush's Tactic of Refusing Laws Is Probed
July 24, 2006, Associated Press, Group Accuses Jordan of Torturing for U.S.
July 23, 2006, Peter D. Kramer, 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, Washington Post, Domestic Detainee From 9/11 Released
July 21, 2006, James Bovard, Editorial, Boston Globe, The 'terrorist' batting average
July 21, 2006, Dana Milbank, 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, 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, Washington Post, Surveillance Bill Meets Resistance in Senate
July 21, 2006, Charles Babington, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, Washington Post, Wiggle Room on Cruelty
July 17, 2006, Peter Spiegel, Los Angeles Times, Is US Winning? Army Chief Is at a Loss
July 16, 2006, David S. Broder & Dan Balz, 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, Los Angeles Times, Bush: Worse Than Nixon
July 16, 2006, Editorial, 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, 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, Washington Post, Policy Rewrite Reveals Rift in Administration
July 14, 2006, Andrew Cohen, Washington Post, NSA Review Must Include the Supreme Court
July 14, 2006, Charles Babington & Peter Baker, Washington Post, Bush Compromises On Spying Program
July 13, 2006, Jessica Azulay, 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, Editorial, 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, 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, Associated Press, Group Wants Financial Data Kept From U.S.
July 12, 2006, Charles Lane, Washington Post, GOP Senator Criticizes Appeals Court Nominee
July 12, 2006, Nat Hentoff, Editorial, Lake Sun Leader, Bush alone decides what is law
July 12, 2006, Charles Babington & Michael Abramowitz, Washington Post, U.S. Shifts Policy on Geneva Conventions
July 12, 2006, Dana Milbank, Washington Post, It's Bush's Way or the Highway on Guantanamo Bay
July 12, 2006, Thomas E. Ricks, 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, Washington Post, The
Gitmo Solution Already Exists
July 12, 2006, CNN, Official:
Leak of financial intelligence program 'very damaging'
July 12, 2006, Thom Hartmann, Common Dreams, Reclaiming the Issues: "Why Is Bush Spying on Democrats?!?"
July 11, 2006, Anne Plummer Flaherty, Associated Press, U.S. Will Give Detainees Geneva Rights
July 11, Jessica Pupovac, 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, New York Times, Ally Warned Bush on Keeping Spying From Congress
July 11, 2006, Sarah Karush, 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, Associated Press, 2 Britons Appeal Extradition to U.S.
July 11, 2006, Dana Priest, 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, Editorial, Washington Post, Medical Oaths Betrayed
July 9, 2006, Jim Hoagland, Editorial, Washington Post, Bush's Unintended Internationalism
July 8, 2006, Daniel Schorr, Christian Science Monitor, The government's current war with the free press
July 8, 2006, Craig S. Smith & Souad Mekhennet, New York Times, Algerian Tells of Dark Odyssey in US Hands
July 8, 2006, Ben Fox, 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, Guardian UK, Bush Told Cheney to Discredit Diplomat Critical of Iraq Policy
July 7, 2006, David Ignatius, Washington Post, A Way Out of Guantanamo Bay
July 7, 2006, Charles Krauthammer, Editorial, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, Washington Post, 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, Los Angeles Times, Congress Faces Dilemma on Terror Trials
July 3, 2006, David E. Sanger & Scott Shane, 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, American Conservative, Power of the Pen
July 3, 2006, James Bovard, Baltimore Sun/Op-Ed, Surveillance of financial transactions goes too far
July 2, 2006, Laura Kurtzman, Washington Post, California Official Denies Monitoring Protesters
July 2, 2006, Editorial, Washington Post, Let There Be Law
July 2, 2006, Josh White, 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, Associated Press, Supreme Court Ruling Troubles GOP Senators
July 2, 2006, Editorial, Washington Post, Let There Be Law
July 1, 2006, Nadia Abou El-Magd, Associated Press, Gonzales Backs Handling of Terror Suspects
July 1, 2006, Peter Nicholas, Los Angeles Times, Governor's Office Tracking Political, Anti-War Groups
July 1, 2006, Ben Fox, Associated Press, Guantanamo Lawyers Say Letters Seized
July 1, 2006, Robert Tanner, Associated Press, Civil liberties advocates decry expanded DNA tests
July 1, 2006, Associated Press, N.J. Prepared to Help Border Patrol