In the News
Archives October 2005
October 31, 2005, Eric Lichtblau, Trail
starts for student in plot to kill president
October 31, 2005, Reuters/ABC, Australia
to investigate Guantanamo abuse
October 31, 2005, Chuck Baldwin, Media Channel,
Bush
administration pushing domestic surveillance
envelope
October 31, 2005, Athima Chansanchai, Seattle
Post-Intelligencer, Friends
push for fair treatment of Saudi detainee
October 31, 2005, Associated Press/Sioux City
Journal, New
rules require insurers to adopt programs to
catch drug dealers, terrorists
October 31, 2005, Walter Brasch, Baltimore
Chronicle & Sentinel, Cheney's
refrain: 'I'm a believer'
October 31, 2005, Editorial/New York Times,
The
House's abuse of patriotism
October 31, 2005, Tom Teepen, The Day, Barbarians
are us
October 30, 2005, Opinion/Times Union, Patriot
Act dangers
October 29, 2005, Josh White, Washington Post,
UN
inspectors invited to Guantanamo
October 28, 2005, Tom Teepen, Times Union,
An
ugly turn toward torture
October 28, 2005, Matt Waring, Cavalier Daily,
No
torture, no exceptions
October 28, 2005, Editorial/Miami Herald/Knight
Ridder, Patriot
Act developing decidedly un-American tilt
October 28, 2005, Richard A. Serrano, Los
Angeles Times/Seattle Times, Padilla
lawyers turn to high court
October 28, 2005, Jonathan Krim, Washington
Post, FBI
dealt setback on cellular surveillance
October 28, 2005, Anne-Marie Slaughter, America
Abroad/TPM Cafe, Military
leaders back McCain-Graham
October 27, 2005, Editorial/York Dispatch,
Patriot
Act alteration is essential
October 27, 2005, Brendan Coyne, NewStandard,
House
Patriot Act renewal provision would expand
death penalty
October 27, 2005, Neil A. Lewis, New York
Times, Striking
Guantanamo detainees gain in ruling
October 27, 2005, Associated Press/New York
Times, Padilla
asks high court to intervene
October 27, 2005, Editorial, Orange County
Register/Desert Dispatch, FBI's
power to abuse
October 26, 2005, Adam Liptak, New York Times,
Bill
would allow second attempts at federal death
sentence
October 26, 2005, Agence France-Presse/truthout,
Only
US seeks to justify abuse
October 26, 2005, Reuters/New York Times,
US
told to give data on Guantanamo hunger strikers
October 26, 2005, David Espo, AP Correspondent,
The Guardian, Miers
to be questioned on Gitmo policy
October 26, 2005, Associated Press, Judge lets lawyers access Gitmo medical records
October 26, 2005, Dan Eggen, Washington Post/Journal Gazette, Patriot Act bill would expand death penalty
October 26, 2005, Adam Liptak, New York Times, Bill Would Allow Second Attempts at Federal Death Sentence
October 26, 2005, Leslie Miller, Associated Press/Globe and Mail, New U.S. passports to go high-tech
October 26, 2005, Oona A. Hathaway, Newsday Editorial, A tortured way to run war on terror
October 25, 2005, Liz Sidoti, Associated
Press/truthout, White
House still trying to stop anti-torture bill
October 25, 2005, Carol Rosenberg, Knight
Ridder Newspapers, Guantanamo
inmate says guards forced feeding tubes up
his nose
October 25, 2005, Associated Press/New York Times, Gitmo Hunger Striker Wants Tube Removed
October 25, 2005, Declan McCullagh and Anne Broache, CNET News, Passports to get RFID chip implants
October 25, 2005, Eric Schmitt, New York Times, White House Seeks Exemption for CIA in Abuse Ban
October 25, 2005, Eric Lichtblau, New York Times, Tighter Oversight of F.B.I. Is Urged After Investigation Lapses
October 25, 2005, Niraj Warikoo, Detroit Free Press, Documents suggest FBI unlawfully spied
October 25, 2005, Editorial, Register-Guard, Clean up Patriot Act
October 25, 2005, Lolita Baldour, Associated Press, ACLU Reports 21 Homicides in U.S. Custody
October 25, 2005, Matthew Barakat, Associated Press, Federal judge rules confession is admissible despite torture claim
October 25, 2005, Larry Abramson, National Public Radio, Internet Surveillance Expands to Schools, Libraries
October 25, 2005, Editorial Board, Oregon Daily Emerald, New FCC law raises privacy concerns
October 25, 2005, Brad A. Greenburg, San Bernardino Sun, Ex-chaplain at Gitmo discusses faith, arrest
October 24, 2005, Dan Eggen, Washington Post,
FBI
Papers Indicate Intelligence Violations;
Secret Surveillance Lacked Oversight
October 24, 2005, Declan McCullagh, CNET News, FBI Net-wiretapping rules face challenges
October 24, 2005, Douglas Jehl and Tim Golden, New York Times, C.I.A. to Avoid Charges in Most Prisoners' Deaths
October 23, 2005, Sara Kehaulani Goo, Washington Post, List of Foiled Plots Puzzling to Some: White House Document Mixes Half-Baked Plans With Serious Terrorist Threats
October 23, 2005, Sam Dillon and Stephen Labaton, New York Times, Colleges Protest Call to Upgrade Online Systems
October 22, 2005, Chip Pitts, The Nation/Common Dreams, A Constitutional Disaster
October 21, 2005, Jim Lobe, Inter
Press Service/Common Dreams, Serious
lapses taint probes of detainee
deaths
October 21, 2005, Siobhan Gorman,
Baltimore Sun/Newsday, Ex-members
of 9/11 commission find FBI failures
October 21, 2005, Amir Shah, Associated
Press/Boston Globe, Afghan
president condemns alleged body
desecration
October 21, 2005, Richard A. Serrano
and John Hendren, Los Angeles Times,
US
fears fallout over reported abuse
of bodies
October 21, 2005, Kansas City InfoZine,
Bill
of Rights readings during fourth
anniversary week of the USA PATRIOT
Act
October 21, 2005, Philip Shenon,
New York Times, 9/11
panel criticizes FBI reform effort
October 20, 2005, Mahdis Keshavarz,
Center for Constitutional Rights/Common
Dreams, Recently
declassified notes reveal brutal
treatment of hunger striking detainees
at Gitmo
October 20, 2005, Michael Virtanen,
Associated Press/Star-Telegram,
O'Connor
calls for clearer detainee rules
October 20, 2005, Jeremy Brecher
and Brendan Smith, Common Dreams,
Attack
Syria? invade Iran? By what constitution?
October 20, 2005, Mark Sherman,
Associated Press, News & Observer,
FBI
trying to repair image on college
campuses
October 20, 2005, Associated Press/Winston-Salem
Journal, Passaro
says he's a scapegoat because of
Abu Ghraib
October 20, 2005, Dennis Yusko,
Times Union, GOP
to skip candidates' forum over Patriot
Act question
October 20, 2005, Associated Press/Washington
Post, FBI
told to reinstate agent who found
fault with the bureau's lack of
action before 9/11
October 20, 2005, Eric Schmitt,
New York Times, Army
examining an account of abuse of
2 dead Taliban
October 20, 2005, Australian Associated
Press/truthout, SBS
shows video of troops burning Taliban
bodies
October 19, 2005, Ben Fox, Associated
Pres/truthout, Guantanamo
hunger strikers shirk tubes
October 19, 2005, Brendan Coyne,
NewStandard, Groups
call on Pentagon to dump recruiting
database
October 19, 2005, Chip Pitts (BORDC
Board President), New Republic Online/Common
Dreams, Big
business and the Patriot Act
October 19, 2005, Neely Tucker,
Washington Post/truthout, Whistleblower
Bunny Greenhouse isn't backing down
October 19, 2005, Eric Schmitt,
New York Times, Review
is set for U.S. forces in terror
fight
October 19, 2005, Niko Kyriakou,
OneWorld.net/Common Dreams, UN
asks groups to report on U.S. rights
violations
October 19, 2005, Philip Shenon,
New York Times, 9/11
panel says Congress and White House
are failing to act
October 19, 2005, United Press International,
Another
Gitmo hunger-striker very ill
October 19, 2005, Eric Lichtblau,
New York Times, Republicans
seek to widen FBI powers
October 18, 2005, Jonathan Krim,
Washington Post, Recruitment
tool targeted
October 18, 2005, Jesse Tinsley,
Cleveland Plain Dealer, Senator
defends vote against Patriot Act
October 17, 2005, Benjamin Israel,
Opinion/Current Online, Libraries
should be freed from Patriot Act
October 17, 2005, Scott Canon, Knight
Ridder/Duluth News Tribune, Debate
over right to privacy roils a nation
and its courts
October 17, 2005, Kristina M. Gronquist,
Opinion/Online Journal, Bush's
illegal war based on lies must be
ended now
October 17, 2005, Linda S. Heard,
Opinion/Online Journal, Torture
is a blight on America's image
October 16, 2005, Neil Mackay, One
victim's story
October 16, 2005, Editorial/Washington
Post, Torture:
a future investigation
October 16, 2005, Neil Mackay, Sunday
Herald, Torture
flights: the inside story
October 16, 2005, Melanthia Mitchell,
Associated Press, Muslim
Army chaplain recalls 'devastating
and frightening' ordeal at Guantanamo
Bay
October 16, 2005, Clay Evans, Daily Camera/Common
Dreams, Torture
in the name of Jesus
October 15, 2005, Reuters/Common Dreams, Un
official: U.S. troops 'starving' Iraqi civilians
October 15, 2005, Anthony Lewis, New York
Times Op-Ed, Miers:
License to Torture
October 15, 2005, Associated Press, Government Urges Judge to Deny More Access to Guantanamo Detainees on Hunger Strike
October 15, 2005, Charlie Savage, Boston Globe, Guantanamo medics accused of abusive force-feeding
October 14, 2005, Nat Hentoff, Village Voice/truthout,
McCain
vs. Bush
October 14, 2005, Scott Harris, Vermont Guardian,
Library
association chief takes on gag rule
October 14, 2005, Walter Pincus, Washington
Post/truthout, Agency
will set up the National Clandestine Service
October 13, 2005, Opinion/Tribune-Democrat,
Those
wayward wiretaps
October 13, 2005, Mark Mazzetti, Los Angeles
Times/Newsday.com, Military
sees limits to role in U.S. disasters
October 13, 2005, Carol Rosenberg, Knight
Ridder/Akron Beacon Journal, Detainee
who was forced to bark like a dog sues for
his freedom
October 13, 2005, Editorial, Delaware Online,
Senate
restriction on torture redirects war's moral
compass
October 13, 2005, Byron Williams, Working
for Change, Senate
shows independence
October 12, 2005, Linda Greenhouse, New York
Times, Justices
grapple with whether public employees enjoy
free-speech rights on the job
October 12, 2005, Associated Press/New York
Times, Top
court considers whistleblower lawsuit
October 12, 2005, Mary Shaw, Democratic Underground,
Bush's
torture scapegoat
October 11, 2005, Opinion/Between the Lines/Scoop,
Library
challenge to Patriot Act gag rule appealed
October 11, 2005, Ron Harris, St. Louis Post-Dispatch,
Senate
bill sets stage for battle with Bush over
a ban on torture
October 11, 2005, Kevin Whitelaw, USNews.com,
Disquieted
whistle-blowers
October 11, 2005, Chris Strohm, GovExec.com,
Whistleblowers
meet to share stories, plot strategies
October 11, 2005, James Ross, Baltimore Sun/Common
Dreams, Shine
life on dark stain of U.S. prisoner abuse
October 11, 2005, Molly Ivins, WorkingForChange/Common
Dreams, GOP
stands up for U.S. right to torture
October 11, 2005, Editorial/Toledo Blade,
Senators
want clear standards for the military's treatment
of terrorism suspects
October 10, 2005, Kitty Kelley, New York Times,
Bush's
veil over history
October 10, 2005, Brendan Coyne, The NewStandard,
Under
pressure over abuses, Attorney General nominee
withdraws
October 10, 2005, Editorial/Los Angeles Times/Journal
Gazette, Bush
should back non-torture amendment
October 10, 2005, Bob Herbert, New York Times/truthout,
Who
isn't against torture?
October 8, 2005, Josh Meyer and Warren Vieth,
Los Angeles Times, Scope
of plots Bush says were foiled is questioned
October 8, 2005, Associated Press/CBS News,
Court
rejects Patriot Act appeal
October 8, 2005, Dan Eggen and R. Jeffrey
Smith, Washington Post/truthout, Flanigan
withdraws as nominee for Deputy Attorney General
October 7, 2005, Carol Rosenberg, Miami Herald,
Chaplain
cites anti-Islam zeal
October 7, 2005, Nat Hentoff, Village Voice,
The
broken Constitution
October 7, 2005, Francis Harris, Telegraph
UK, Bush
will veto anti-torture law after Senate revolt
October 7, 2005, Stephanie Nebehay, Reuters,
ICRC
says hunger strike at Guantanamo Bay "serious"
October 7, 2005, Pamela Hess, United Press
International/Common Dreams, U.S.
'lacks moral authority' in Iraq
October 7, 2005, Ewen MacAskill, The Guardian
UK/truthout, Bush:
'God told me to end the tyranny in Iraq'
October 7, 2005, Editorital, New York Times,
President
Bush's major speech: doing the 9/11 time warp
again
October 6, 2005, Democracy Now, Former
army chaplain James Yee on the abuse of prisoners
at Guantanamo
October 6, 2005, Matthew Rothschild, The Progressive,
Wal-Mart
turns in student's anti-bush photo, Secret
Service investigates him
October 6, 2005, CNN.com, Bush
military bird flu roll slammed
October 6, 2005, Joseph L. Galloway and James
Kuhnhenn, Knight Ridder/Ledger-Enquirer, Senate
adds anti-torture language to spending bill
October 6, 2005, Eric Schmitt, New York Times,
Senate
moves to protect military prisoners despite
veto threat
October 6, 2005, Associated Press/New York
Times, Business
groups want to limit Patriot Act
October 6, 2005, Douglas Jehl, New York Times,
Officials
won't be disciplined for actions before September
11
October 5, 2005, New York Times/truthout,
Soldier
reports more abuses to senator
October 5, 2005, Associated Press/USA Today,
Senate
to debate rules for detainees
October 5, 2005, Tim Kauffman, Federal Times,
House
panel votes to strengthen protections for
whistleblowers: bill doesn't go far enough,
advocates say
October 5, 2005, NJ Star-Ledger Washington
Bureau, Bush
pushes Congress to renew the Patriot Act
October 5, 2005, Jim Lobe, Inter Press Service/Common
Dreams, White
House losing ground on prisoner treatment
October 5, 2005, Liz Sidoti, Associated Press/Boston
Globe, Warner
challenges Frist over stalled defense measure
October 4, 2005, Associated Press/CNN.com,
Libraries
fight Patriot Act gag order
October 4, 2005, ABC News Online, UK
urged to speed up Hicks citizenship bid
October 4, 2005, Editorial/Mobile Register,
Military
is not meant for law enforcement
October 4, 2005, Chronicle of Higher Education,
Library
case could go to Supreme Court
October 3, 2005, Carol Rosenberg, Knight Ridder/Boston
Herald, US
returns Guantanamo detainee to Egypt
October 3, 2005, Neil A. Lewis, NY Times,
In
new book, ex-chaplain at Guantanamo tells
of abuses
October 3, 2005, Leslie Miller, Associated
Press/Airport Business, Scrutiny
continues over airline screening
October 3, 2005, LibraryJournal.com, Librarians
demonstrate silently against Patriot Act
October 3, 2005, Letta Tayler, New York Newsday,
Inmate's
writings raise questions of identification,
treatment at Guantanamo
October 2, 2005, Neil Mackay, Sunday Herald/truthout,
Torture
of Iraqis was for 'stress relief' say US soldiers
October 1, 2005, Greg Miller, LA Times, Bill
would give cover to Pentagon spies in U.S.
October 1, 2005, John Aloysius Farrell, Nation/Denver
Post, Translator
caught in web
October 1, 2005, Mike Saccone, Cox New Service/Houston
Chronicle, Whistle-blower
safeguard bill called lacking
October 1, 2005, Clive Stafford Smith, CBS
News, Gitmo's
Hunger Strikers
October 1, 2005, Flavia Alaya, CounterPunch, Showdown at Sheriff's Plaza
October 1, 2005, Secret Military Data Mining Unit "Able Danger":
- Douglas Jehl, New York Times, 2nd Lawmaker Credits Military Intelligence Program
- Kimberly Hefling, Associated Press, Pentagon Revokes 9/11 Officer's Clearance
October 1, 2005, Robert Pear, New York Times, Buying of News by Bush Aides Is Ruled Illegal
October 1, 2005, Holly McKenna, Reuters,
2
Muslims face new charges;
Albany, NY, men accused of aiding terrorists
October 1, 2005, Richard Cohen, Washington Post Op-Ed, The Missing Apology to Lynndie England