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March 31, 2006, United Press International, Gitmo detainees' groups not listed by U.S.
March 31, 2006, Reuters, Senate Panel Set to Consider Bid to Censure Bush
March 31, 2006, Patrick Leahy, Vermont Guardian, Assault on the public’s right to know
March 31, 2006, Carl Hulse and Sheryl Gay Stolberg, New York Times, G.O.P. Is Taking Aim at Advocacy Groups
March 31, 2006, James Bovard, Baltimore Chronicle & Sentinel, Freedom as a Ticket for Power
March 31, 2006, Scott Shane and Neil A. Lewis, New York Times, At Sept. 11 Trial, Tale of Missteps and Management
March 31, 2006, Ann Gearan, Associated Press, Rice: U.S. Wants to Be Sure on Detainees
March 30, 2006, New York Times, Bill Would Speed Challenge to Surveillance
March 30, 2006, Neil A. Lewis, New York Times, Moussaoui Sentencing Case Goes to the Jury
March 30, 2006, David Sarasohn, Oregonian, Sarasohn: Reinterpreting the Constitution, unfaithfully
March 30, 2006, John Nichols, The Nation, Russ Feingold's Legal Firepower
March 30, 2006, Bradley S. Klapper, Associated Press, U.N. torture expert wants access to secret U.S. prisons in Europe
March 29, 2006, Dan Eggen, Washington Post, Record Shows Senators' 'Debate' That Wasn't
March 29, 2006, Eric Lichtblau, New York Times, Judges on Secretive Panel Speak Out on Spy Program
March 29, 2006, Suzanne Goldenberg, Guardian (UK), Guantánamo's Day of Reckoning in Supreme Court
March 29, 2006, Charles Lane, Washington Post, Case Tests Power of Judiciary, President
March 29, 2006, Associated Press, Democrats Offer National Security Platform
March 29, 2006, Jay Weaver, Miami Herald, Feds bugged bedroom, phones of Florida university couple
March 29, 2006, Timothy Dwyer and Jerry Markon, Washington Post, Prosecution Argues Moussaoui 'Lied With Lethal Intent'
March 29, 2006, Corine Lesnes, Le Monde, Bush's Guantánamo Vagaries Before the Supreme Court Justices
March 28, 2006, Gina Holland, Associated Press, Supreme Court Hears Detainee's Case
March 28, 2006, Josh White, Washington Post, Workers Surveyed On Detainee Abuse
March 28, 2006, Charles Lane, Washington Post, Scalia's Recusal Sought in Key Detainee Case (Video of Scalia's March 8 comments at Freiburg University available from Bafweb, by clicking here.)
March 28, 2006, Rick Klein, Boston Globe, Panel acts to expand immigrant rights
March 28, 2006, Gina Holland, Associated Press, Court Takes Up Case of Bin Laden Driver
March 28, 2006, Eugene Robinson, Washington Post, Decency to 'Those People'
March 28, 2006, California Chronicle, Harman and Conyers Demand Administration Rescind Patriot Act Signing Statement
March 27, 2006, Ashbel S. Green, Oregonian, Oregon Suit Tests Bush Wiretaps
March 27, 2006, Carol Rosenberg, Knight Ridder, Britain will ask U.S. to hand over Guantanamo detainee
March 27, 2006, Democracy Now!, Bush Signs Statements to Bypass Torture Ban, Oversight Rules in Patriot Act
March 27, 2006, Linda Greenhouse, New York Times, Detainee Case Will Pose Delicate Question for Court
March 27, 2006, Associated Press, No Legal Rights for Enemy Combatants, Scalia Says
March 27, 2006, Nicholas Riccardi, Los Angeles Times, FBI Keeps Watch on Activists
March 27, 2006, Associated Press, Call for Censuring Bush Boosts Feingold
March 27, 2006, Editorial/New York Times, Sins of Commissions
March 27, 2006, Chitra Ragavan, US News & World Report, The Letter of the Law
March 27, 2006, Richard Norton-Taylor, The Guardian (UK), Congress to see play about Guantánamo
March 26, 2006, Chip Pitts, Sacramento Bee, Little has changed despite Abu Ghraib
March 26, 2006, Associated Press, Report: Scalia Criticizes Europe on Gitmo
March 26, 2006, Max Blumenthal, Huffington Post, Sensenbrenner Awakens A Sleeping Giant
March 26, 2006, Charles Lane, Washington Post, Court Case Challenges Power of President
March 26, 2006, Reuters, Blair Warns Against U.S. Isolationism
March 25, 2006, New York Times, Privileged Conversations Said Not Excluded From Spying
March 25, 2006, Brendan Lyons, Albany Times Union, Role of NSA in sting sought
March 25, 2006, Pete Yost, Associated Press, Lawyer Cleared to Visit Guantanamo Inmate
March 25, 2006, Teresa Watanabe and Anna Gorman, Los Angeles Times, More Than 500,000 Rally in L.A. for Immigrants' Rights
March 25, 2006, Frederic J. Frommer, Associated Press, Censure Resolution Could Pay Dividends for Feingold
March 25, 2006, Boston Globe Editorial, Blank Checks, No Balances
March 24, 2006, Charlie Savage, Boston Globe, Bush Shuns Patriot Act Oversight Requirement
March 24, 2006, Lucia Kubosova, EU Observer, EU considering summit statement on Guantanamo
March 24, 2006, Neil A. Lewis, New York Times, Terrorist trial now goes to defense
March 24, 2006, Associated Press, Feds used Patriot Act to investigate Clark County commissioners
March 24, 2006, Carol Draeger, South Bend Tribune, FBI responds to local Sunshine Week forum
March 23, 2006, Alexandra Marks, Christian Science Monitor, FBI, Police Spying Is Rising, Groups Allege
March 23, 2006, Jerry Markon and Timothy Dwyer, Washington Post, Had FAA known Moussaoui bid, it could have acted, official says
March 23, 2006, Charlie Savage, Boston Globe, Court weighs detainees' right to challenge imprisonment
March 23, 2006, Carol Rosenberg, Knight Ridder, Pentagon bars evidence obtained through torture
March 23, 2006, Eric Schmitt, New York Times, Another Abu Ghraib trial leaves top brass unscathed
March 23, 2006, Editorial/New York Times, The Joy of Being Blameless
March 23, 2006, Josh White, Washington Post, Impact of Detainee Act Debated in Court
March 23, 2006, David Lauer, Coloradoan, No checks and balances
March 22, 2006, Josh White, Washington Post, Guantanamo Bay detainees' challenges hang in balance
March 22, 2006, Associated Press, Reid Threatens Filibuster on Immigration
March 22, 2006, Reuters, Pentagon Mulls Torture Rule on Guantanamo Evidence
March 22, 2006, Neil A. Lewis, New York Times, Superior Says He Didn't See Agent's Report on Moussaoui
March 22, 2006, Associated Press, Court to Decide Fate of Detainee Lawsuits
March 22, 2006, Eric Schmitt, New York Times, Dog handler convicted of Abu Ghraib abuse
March 22, 2006, Adam Liptak, New York Times, New Scrutiny for Law on Detaining Witnesses
March 22, 2006, Michael J. Sniffen, Associated Press, FBI discussions on Moussaoui at issue
March 22, 2006, Toni Locy, Associated Press, Sen. Levin's law involved in detainee lawsuit
March 22, 2006, Chris Lehmann, New York Observer, Russ Never Sleeps
March 21, 2006, Alison Leigh Cowan, New York Times, Librarian Is Still John Doe, Despite Patriot Act Revision
March 21, 2006, Rone Tempest, Los Angeles Times, Onetime Clerk Is at Center of Lodi Trial
March 21, 2006, Moussaoui Death Penalty Case:
- Richard Serrano, Los Angeles Times, Agent Faults FBI on 911
- Neil A. Lewis, New York Times, F.B.I. Agent Testifies Superiors Didn't Pursue Moussaoui Case
March 20, 2006, Foster Flug, Associated Press, Former Gitmo Detainees Speak of Abuse
March 20, 2006, Moussaoui Death Penalty Case:
- Matthew Barakat, Associated Press, FBI Agent Defends Self in Moussaoui Case
- Washington Post Editorial, Another Blown Case?
March 20, 2006, Farah Stockman and Charlie Savage, Boston Globe, Guantanamo Transcripts Paint a Picture of War's Combatants
March 20, 2006, New York Times Editorial, The President and the Courts
March 20, 2006, James Carroll, Boston Globe Column, The Politics of Pacifism Meets FBI Monitoring (Thomas Merton Center)
March 20, 2006, Walter Pincus, Washington Post, Increase in Contracting Intelligence Jobs Raises Concerns
March 19, 2006, Eric Schmitt and Carolyn Marshall, New York Times, Before and After Abu Ghraib, a U.S. Unit Abused Detainees
March 18, 2006, Immigration Reform:
- New York Times Editorial, An Immigration Breakthrough
- Robert Kuttner, Columnist, Bad Time for Immigrants
March 17, 2006, Charles Babington, Washington Post, Bill Would Allow Warrantless Spying
March 17, 2006, Richard B. Schmitt, Los Angeles Times, White House Civil Liberties Panel Finally Meets After 16 Months
March 17, 2006, Colin Brown, Independent UK, Blair Finally Calls for Guantánamo to Close
March 17, 2006, Dan Eggen, Washington Post, FBI Outlines $425 Million Computer Upgrade
March 17, 2006, E. J. Dionne Jr., Washington Post, Can Democrats Play This Game?
March 17, 2006, Elizabeth de la Vega, TomDispatch.com, Reprogramming the Infinite Loop: The NSA Spying Debate
March 16, 2006, David Cole, The Nation, Patriot Act Post-Mortem
March 16, 2006, Thalif Deen, Inter Press Service, U.N. Creates New Watchdog Over U.S. Opposition
March 16, 2006, Suzanne Goldenberg, Guardian (UK), Boost for Google in Internet Privacy Case
March 16, 2006, Josh White, Washington Post, Officer Says He Wrongly Approved Use of Dogs
March 16, 2006, Colum Lynch, Washington Post, U.N. Votes To Replace Rights Panel
March 16, 2006, Jerry Markon, Carol Morello and William Branigin, Washington Post, Lawyer in 9/11 Case Placed on Leave
March 16, 2006, Neil A. Lewis and Matthew L. Wald, New York Times, Moussaoui Prosecutors Seek Security Officials' Testimony
March 15, 2006, Evelyn Leopold, Reuters, UN creates new rights council over US objections
March 15, 2006, Jonathan S. Landay, Knight Ridder, FBI Documents Raise New Questions about Extent of Surveillance
March 15, 2006, Jerry Markon and Timothy Dwyer, Washington Post, Federal Witnesses Banned in 9/11 Trial
March 15, 2006, Dana Milbank, The Feingold Resolution and the Sound of Silence
March 15, 2006, NewStandard, Anonymous Web Authors Targeted by Proposed NJ Laws
March 15, 2006, Michele Morgan Bolton, Albany Times Union, Activist groups fear domestic spying
March 15, 2006, Joe Mandak, Associated Press, Anti-war group accuses FBI of spying
March 15, 2006, Laurie Kellman, Associated Press, Feingold Accuses Democrats of 'Cowering'
March 15, 2006, Dave Lindorff, FMNN, Moussaoui Case Shows Why Guantanamo Tribunals are a Bad Idea
March 14, 2006, Democracy Now!, Over 100,000 March in Chicago to Protest Immigration Reform Bill in One of Biggest Pro-Immigrant Rallies in U.S. History
March 14, 2006, Democracy Now!, Moazzam Begg Describes Abuse at Bagram and Guantanamo and Witnessing the Killing of Two Fellow Detainees
March 14, 2006, Democracy Now!, British Human Rights Lawyer Gareth Peirce and "Enemy Combatant" Co-Author Victoria Brittain Blast U.S.-Run Prison at Guantanamo Bay
March 14, 2006, NewStandard, FBI Spies on More Anti-war Activists, Exposes Ethnic Prejudice
March 14, 2006, Jerry Markon and Timothy Dwyer, Washington Post, Judge Halts Terror Trial
March 14, 2006, Charles Babington, Washington Post, Feingold Pushes to Censure President
March 14, 2006, Eric Auchard, Reuters, Google, US to face off over data
March 13, 2006, Ariane Chemin and Yves Eudes, Le Monde, Incoherencies, Eponymies: Proofs of Accusations Often Skimpy
March 13, 2006, Julian Borger, Guardian (UK), Former Top Judge Says US Risks Edging Near to Dictatorship
March 13, 2006, Larry Neumeister, Associated Press, AP files lawsuit seeking documents of all Guantanamo detainees
March 13, 2006, Associated Press, Feingold Seeks Senate Censure of Bush
March 13, 2006, Josh White, Washington Post, Detainee in Photo With Dog Was 'High-Value' Suspect
March 13, 2006, Catherine Komp, NewStandard, Gitmo Detainee Allegedly Tortured at 15 to Face Tribunal
March 13, 2006, Reuters, US Says Looking at Alternatives to Guantanamo
March 12, 2006, Patrick Radden Keefe, New York Times, Can Network Theory Thwart Terrorists?
March 12, 2006, Associated Press, Polls: Public Worried About Gov't Secrecy
March 12, 2006, Douglass K. Daniel, Associated Press, Feingold Wants Bush Censured for Spying
March 12, 2006, Laila al-Marayati and Basil Abdelkarim, Washington Post Op-Ed, The Crime of Being A Muslim Charity
March 11, 2006, Dan Eggen, Washington Post, Patriot Act Partly Blamed in Madrid Case
March 11, 2006, William McCall, Associated Press, DOJ Faults FBI for Fingerprinting Error
March 11, 2006, Hope Marston, TruthOut, Surveillance, Infiltration, and Harassment of Environmental Organizations (Transcript)
March 11, 2006, Hassan M. Fattah, New York Times, Symbol of Abu Ghraib Seeks to Spare Others His Nightmare
March 11, 2006, Julia Preston, New York Times, Judge Issues Secret Ruling in Case of 2 at Mosque
March 11, 2006, Evan Lehmann, Brattleboro (VT) Reformer, Government secrecy rules: Lawmakers lament police powers allowed by Patriot Act
March 11, 2006, Associated Press, Colo. Teacher Accused Of Bias Is Reinstated; He Had Likened Bush's Speech to Hitler's
March 10, 2006, Walter Pincus, Washington Post, Panel on Eavesdropping Is Briefed by White House
March 10, 2006, Ben Fox, Associated Press, Cheap Watches Trouble for Gitmo Prisoners
March 10, 2006, Associated Press, Group: Gitmo Force-Feedings Should Stop
March 10, 2006, Walter Pincus, Washington Post, Panel on Eavesdropping Is Briefed by White House
March 10, 2006, Editorial/Arizona East Valley Tribune, ‘No torture’ ought to mean just what it says
March 10, 2006, BBC News, Guantanamo film watched by 1.6 million
March 9, 2006, Dan Eggen, Washington Post, FBI Cites More Than 100 Possible Eavesdropping Violations
March 9, 2006, Bill Brubaker, Washington Post, Bush Signs New Version of Patriot Act
March 9, 2006, Eric Lichtblau, New York Times, Justice Dept. Report Cites F.B.I. Violations
March 9, 2006, Deb Riechmann, Associated Press, Bush to sign renewal of USA Patriot Act
March 9, 2006, Associated Press, Legal Rationale for Spy Program Questioned
March 9, 2006, Editorial/New York Times, The Death of the Intelligence Panel
March 9, 2006, Scott Shane and David D. Kirkpatrick, New York Times, G.O.P. Plan Would Allow Spying Without Warrants
March 9, 2006, Carl Hulse, New York Times, A Rebellion in the G.O.P. on Security, a Signature Issue
March 9, 2006, Danae Brook, Independent (UK), Back home, but still imprisoned: The shadow of Guantanamo
March 9, 2006, Joseph Kahn, New York Times, China Returns Sharp Retort to U.S. Report on Human Rights
March 8, 2006, Walter Brasch, Counterpunch, Compromising Americans’ Civil Liberties
March 8, 2006, Reuters, US Records Serious Rights Abuses in Iraq
March 8, 2006, Associated Press, Guantanamo Lawyers Scour Papers for Clues
March 8, 2006, Andy McSmith, Independent (UK), Minister Says Guantanamo Must Close to Save Democracy
March 8, 2006, David D. Kirkpatrick and Scott Shane, New York Times, G.O.P. Senators Say Accord Is Set on Wiretapping
March 8, 2006, Charles Babington, Washington Post, Congress Votes to Renew Patriot Act, With Changes
March 8, 2006, Walter Pincus, Washington Post, Senate Panel Blocks Eavesdropping Probe
March 8, 2006, Editorial/New York Times, They Came for the Chicken Farmer
March 7, 2006, Associated Press, Five Vermont Towns Vote to Impeach Bush
March 7, 2006, M.R. Kropko, Associated Press, Gitmo Prosecutor Denies Detainees Tortured
March 7, 2006, Editorial/Boston Globe, Prison Abuse Continues
March 7, 2006, Knight Ridder, James Kuhnhenn, GOP Lawmakers Work to Limit Probe of Domestic Spying Program
March 7, 2006, Associated Press, Gonzales Defends U.S. Policy on Torture
March 7, 2006, Associated Press, Former Guantanamo Prisoner Publishes Book
March 7, 2006, Jonathan Weisman and Jeffrey H. Birnbaum, Washington Post, A Tame End to Patriot Act Debate
March 7, 2006, Laurie Kellman, Associated Press, Patriot Act would limit access to cold remedies
March 6, 2006, Reuters, Cindy Sheehan Arrested in NY Protest
March 6, 2006, Brad Knickerbocker, Christian Science Monitor, 'Specific' Info on NSA Eavesdropping?
March 6, 2006, Mike McDonough, Guardian UK, '14,000 Detained Without Trial in Iraq'
March 6, 2006, Tim Golden, New York Times, Voices Baffled, Brash and Irate in Guantánamo
March 6, 2006, Editorial/New York Times, Kabuki Congress
March 6, 2006, Associated Press, Details of Some Guantanamo Hearings
March 6, 2006, Associated Press, Guantanamo Inmates Despair of Ever Leaving
March 6, 2006, Vikram Dodd and Stephen Bates, Guardian, Guantánamo detainee told Geneva rights 'irrelevant'
March 6, 2006, Editorial/San Francisco Chronicle, The forgotten prison
March 6, 2006, Reuters, 5 From Guantánamo Get Bail in Kuwait
March 6, 2006, Associated Press, Archbishop criticizes impact of Guantanamo
March 6, 2006, Editorial/Cincinnati Post, When a torture ban doesn't
March 5, 2006, Dahr Jamail, TomDispatch, Tracing the Trail of Torture
March 5, 2006, Eric Umansky, Washington Post Op-Ed, A
Fate Worse Than Guantanamo?
The U.S. Has an Obligation to the Prisoners It Is 'Releasing'
Overseas
March 5, 2006, Josh White and Julie Tate, Washington Post, In Guantanamo Bay Documents, Prisoners Plead for Release
March 5, 2006, Dan Eggen, Washington Post, White House Trains Efforts on Media Leaks
March 5, 2006, Michael J. Sniffen and John Solomon, Associated Press, Thousands of Federal Cases Kept Secret
March 4, 2006, Greg Miller, Mark Mazzetti and Josh Meyer, Los Angeles Times, Documents Reveal the Stories of Prisoners at Guantanamo Bay
March 4, 2006, Barton Gellman, Washington Post, Administration Revives Dispute Over Eavesdropping Authority
March 4, 2006, Miranda Leitsinger and Ben Fox, Associated Press, Pentagon Releases Names of Guantanamo Detainees
March 4, 2006, Julia Preston, New York Times, Breast Cancer Delays Sentencing of Lawyer Lynne Stewart, Convicted in Terrorism Case
March 4, 2006, Jerry Markon, Washington Post, Moussaoui: The Man Who Wasn't There on 9/11
March 3, 2006, Brendan Coyne, NewStandard, Privacy Groups Debate Court Record Access
March 3, 2006, Laurie Kellman, Associated Press, Senate Approves Patriot Act Renewal
March 3, 2006, John Nichols, The Nation, Ten Against Patriot Act Reauthorization
March 3, 2006, Josh White and Carol D. Leonnig, Washington Post, U.S. Cites Exception in Torture Ban
March 3, 2006, Neil A. Lewis, New York Times, Guantánamo Detainee Seeks Court Action
March 3, 2006, Lucy Stallworthy, Post Chronicle, Guantanamo Detainee Policy Debated
March 3, 2006, Charles Babington, Washington Post, Gonzales Denies More Extensive Domestic Spying
March 3, 2006, Carol D. Leonnig, Washington Post, Paper Said to Show NSA Spying Given to Post Reporter in 2004
March 2, 2006, Senator Patrick Leahy, "I Will Vote No on Patriot Act"
March 2, 2006, Ray McGovern, truthout, I Do Not Wish to Be Associated With Torture
March 2, 2006, Congressman John Conyers, Why We Act
March 2, 2006, Katherine Shrader, Associated Press, House Panel Wants Surveillance Oversight
March 2, 2006, Reuters, House panel to weigh phone privacy bill March 8
March 2, 2006, Miranda Leitsinger, Associated Press, Guantanamo Hearing Thrown Into Disarray
March 2, 2006, Rob Jennings, Agence France Presse, 'War on Terror' Trials Could Allow Evidence Obtained Through Torture
March 2, 2006, Laurie Kellman, Associated Press, Senate Ends Stalemate Over Patriot Act
March 2, 2006, Guy T. Sturino, American Chronicle, Eight States and 400+ Municipalities resolve to err on the side of the U. S. Constitution
March 2, 2006, Carol D. Leonnig and Mary Beth Sheridan, Washington Post, Saudi Group Alleges Wiretapping by U.S.
March 2, 2006, Frederic J. Frommer, Associated Press, Feingold lectures colleagues on Patriot Act
March 2, 2006, Democracy Now!, V.A. Nurse Accused of Sedition After Publishing Letter Critical of Bush on Katrina, Iraq
March 2, 2006, Pete Yost, Associated Press, Judge Weighs Force-Feeding Tactic at Gitmo
March 2. 2006, Carol Rosenberg, Miami Herald, Hearings may consider torture
March 2, 2006, William Fisher, truthout, Son of Gitmo
March 2, 2006, Reuters, Use of Torture to Be Weighed in Guantanamo Evidence
March 1, 2006, Laurie Kellman, Associated Press, As Patriot Act passes test vote, even Senate sponsor is uneasy
March 1, 2006, Laurie Kellman, Associated Press, Patriot Act Renewal Clears Final Hurdle
March 1, 2006, Josh White, Washington Post, Guantanamo Force-Feeding Tactics Are Called Torture
March 1, 2006, David D. Kirkpatrick, New York Times, Republicans Seek to Bridge Differences on Surveillance
March 1, 2006, Peter Baker, Washington Post, GOP Unease Spreads to Security Issues
March 1, 2006, Jessica Azulay, NewStandard, Pentagon Already Accused of Violating McCain Torture Ban
March 1, 2006, Charlie Savage, Boston Globe, Views are mixed on domestic spying
March 1, 2006, Associated Press, Blair says he hopes Guantanamo will close
March 1, 2006, Democracy Now!, How Major Corporations and Government Plan to Track your Every Move with Radio Frequency Identification