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September 30, 2005, Associated Press/Washington Post, The wiretap powers in the Patriot Act

September 30, 2005, Anne Broache, CNET News.com, NYTimes, Homeland Security privacy chief leaves for GE

September 30, 2005, Reuters/truthout, Bush moves to block torture probe

September 30, 2005, Associated Press/NY Times, FBI Admits Mistakes in Security Wiretaps

September 30, 2005, Reuters, Bush Threatens to Veto Defense Bill If Amendments Address Prisoner Abuse

September 30, 2005, Editorial, The Monitor, As Lynndie England chapter ends, new questions about prisoner abuse raised

September 30, 2005, Sara Kehaulani Goo and Spencer S. Hsu, Washington Post/Boston Globe, Homeland security privacy chief quits

September 30, 2005, Juliz Preston, New York Times, Judge orders release of more prison abuse photos

September 30, 2005, Michael Weissenstein, Associated Press/Boston Globe, US judge allows suit against Ashcroft

September 30, 2005, Norman Solomon, Torture and the "controversial" arc of injustice

September 29, 2005, William Douglas and Drew Brown, Columbus Ledger-Enquirer, Proposal for military to take lead in disasters raises concerns

September 29, 2005, Robert Burns, Associated Press/Common Dreams, Army: no evidence of felony crime in corpse postings on internet

September 29, 2005, Associated Press/NY Times, Judge orders release of Abu Ghraib photos

September 29, 2005, Nina Bernstein, NY Times, Top officials told to testify in Muslims' suit

September 29, 2005, Associated Press/NY Times, Judge upholds lawsuit by two Muslim men

September 29, 2005, Douglas Jehl, NY Times, Republicans see signs that Pentagon is evading oversight

September 29, 2005, Bryan Bender, Boston Globe, Military reacts to the alleged posting of gruesome photos from Iraq

September 29, 2005, John Crewdson and Andrew Zajac, Chicago Tribune/truthout, Atta known to Pentagon before 9/11

September 29, 2005, J. Scott Orr, NJ Star-Ledger, Forced silence incites critics of Patriot Act

September 29, 2005, Eric Lightblau, New York Times, Prosecutions in immigration doubled in last four years

September 28, 2005, Josephy L. Galloway, Knight Ridder Washington, Military higher-ups get to the bottom of abuse scandals

September 28, 2005, Democracy Now, William Arkin on the increasing military role in emergency response

September 28, 2005, Jenny Booth, Timesonline UK/truthout, Iraqis furious at Abu Ghraib abuse sentence

September 28, 2005, Eric Schmitt, New York Times, Officer criticizes detainee abuse inquiry

September 28, 2005, Donna Cassata, Miami Herald, Posse Comitatus: hurricanes spawn debate on military role

September 28, 2005, Brendan Coyne, NewStandard, Prisoner abusers 'confused' by administration remarks

September 28, 2005, Editorial, Washington Post, Mr. Flanigan's answers

September 28, 2005, Derrick Z. Jackson, Boston Globe, The buck stops with Lynndie

September 28, 2005, Editorial, Boston Globe, Military abuse

September 28, 2005, Adam Tanner, Reuters/Boston Globe, England receives three-year term

September 28, 2005, Thom Shanker, New York Times, Army investigates photos of Iraqi war dead on the web

September 28, 2005, Tom Allard, Sydney Morning Herald, U.S. bribed Hicks' captors, says father

September 27, 2005, David E. Sanger, New York Times, Posse Comitatus: Bush considers broadening of military's powers during natural disasters

September 27, 2005, Ray McGovern, truthout, Torturous silence on torture

September 27, 2005, William Fisher, Inter Press Service, Calls mount for prisoner abuse commission

September 27, 2005, Carl Hulse, New York Times/truthout, Roberts, debate starts, but outcome clear

September 27, 2005, Will Dunham, Washington Post, Pentagon announces further delay in Hicks case

September 26, 2005, Rick Hepp, Star-Ledger, State police cite Muslim profiling

September 26, 2005, Ryan Singel, Wired News, Nun terrorized by terror watch

September 26, 2005, Reuters/truthout, Around 1,000 to be freed from Abu Ghraib as gesture

September 26, 2005, Stephanie Ebbert, Boston Globe, Fusion Center takes aim at terror

September 26, 2005, Associated Press/Boston Globe, McCain: prisoner abuse hurts U.S. image

September 26, 2005, Associated Press/New York Times, Gitmo judge rejects claim he's interfering

September 26, 2005, Associated Press/New York Times, Pentagon sets trial for Australian suspect

September 26, 2005, Bill Sammon, Washington Times, Bush offers Pentagon as 'lead agency' in disasters

September 25, 2005, David Corn, The Nation, The FBI fails (for now) to grab subpoena powers

September 24, 2005, Eric Schmitt, New York Times, Beating Iraqi prisoners was routine

September 24, 2005, Associated Press/truthout, Navy secretly contracted jets used for terror flights by CIA

September 24, 2005, Josh White, Washington Post, New reports surface about detainee abuse

September 23, 2005, Amnesty International, Guantanamo hunger strikers critically ill

September 22, 2005, Charlie Savage, Boston Globe, Detainees' lawyer seeks hearing on Guantanamo hunger strike

September 22, 2005, Philip B. Heymann & Juliette N. Kayyem, Boston Globe, Limiting secrecy under the Patriot Act

September 22, 2005, Editorial, Knight Ridder, Revisiting problems with the Patriot Act

September 22, 2005, Sarah Andrews, Cambridge Chronicle, Romney offends local Muslims

September 21, 2005, Gag order remains on Connecticut library for now:

September 21, 2005, Carol D. Leonnig, Washington Post, Detainee Hunger Strike Prompts Request for Health Records Access

September 21, 2005, Ben Fox, Associated Press/Washington Post, Lawyers Visit Detainees on Hunger Strike

September 21, 2005, Reuters/New York Times, Fewer Guantanamo Inmates on Hunger Strike: US

September 21, 2005, Philip Shenon, New York Times, Pentagon Bars Military Officers and Analysts From Testifying

September 21, 2005, Kimberly Hefling, Associated Press, Pentagon Nixes 9/11 Hearing Testimony

September 21, 2005, Reuters/New York Times, Defense Not Ready for Australian's Guantanamo Trial

September 21, 2005, Thalif Deen, Inter Press Service, UN Human Rights Body to Scrutinise U.S. Abuses

September 21, 2005, Laurie Au & Megha Rajagopalan, Diamondback Online, Terrorism suspect released on bond

September 20, 2005, Robert Burns, Associated Press/Washington Post, Australian's Terrorism Trial to Resume

September 20, 2005, Editorial, Globe and Mail/Common Dreams, A Man is Tortured, and the U.S. Shrugs?

September 20, 2005, Carol Rosenberg, Knight Ridder Newspapers, Detainee issues await new court

September 20, 2005, Sajid Farooq, Daily Democrat, Patriot Act still inflames passions

September 20, 2005, Jerry Markon, Washington Post, Al Qaeda Suspect Tells of Bush Plot

September 20, 2005, Eric Lichtblau, New York Times, U.S. Details Charges Against Student Linked to Plot Against Bush

September 19, 2005, Christine Bradley, Hartford Courant, Gagging On Patriot Act Libraries Fighting Inavsion Of Privacy, Curb On Speech

September 19, 2005, Nat Hentoff, Canton Repository, Roberts’ record speaks trouble

September 19, 2005, Nat Hentoff, Washington Times, McCain's anti-torture amendments

September 19, 2005, Erik Arvidson, Sentinel & Enterprise, Romney stands by comments about Muslims

September 19, 2005, William Fisher, Inter Press Service, Hunger Strike Spreads at Guantanamo Camp

September 19, 2005, Ashbel S. Green, Oregonian, Lawyer's first criminal case takes him to Guantanamo

September 19, 2005, Stephen Bates, Guardian (UK)/Common Dreams, Church of England Bishops Criticize US Over Foreign Policy and War on Terror

September 18, 2005, Toni Locy, USA TODAY, Military, lawyers at odds over Gitmo hunger strike

September 18, 2005, Times Union, Patriot Act pause: A federal judge lifts a gag order on a librarian who was under FBI order

September 18, 2005, Brent Adams, MSNBC, Patriot Act: Businesses cope with law's requirements

September 18, 2005, Editorial, The Journal News, Patriot Act on trial

September 17, 2005, Constitution Day:

September 17, 2005, Associated Press, Federal prosecutors appeal lifting of librarian gag order

September 16, 2005, David A. Fahrenthold, Washington Post, Groups Criticize Romney's Comments

September 16, 2005, Jacob Sullum, Reason, Chief Justice Roberts will help decide whether an indefinite war requires indefinite detention

September 16, 2005, Abbott Koloff, Daily Record, Government will have a lot to prove under Patriot Act

September 15, 2005, Associated Press, Tube-Fed Guantanamo Hunger Strikers Now Up to 21

September 15, 2005, Editorial, Lansing State Journal, Hunger strike: In legal limbo, some Gitmo detainees choose starvation

September 15, 2005, Anthony Gregory, The Independent Institute, Suspected Terrorists Deserve Due Process

September 15, 2005, Harvey A. Silverglate, The Boston Phoenix, The DOJ’s shopping trip pays off

September 15, 2005, Scott Helman, Boston Globe, Wiretap mosques, Romney suggests

September 15, 2005, Campaign for Reader Privacy, Bookselling This Week, CRP Petitions Presented to Sanders, Craig, and Senate Conferees

September 15, 2005, Reuters/New York Times, ACLU Releases Iraq Prisoner Abuse Report Documents

September 15, 2005, Editorial, The Day, Parsing The Patriot Act

September 14, 2005, Raj Purohit, TomPaine.com, Roberts' Rules Of War

September 14, 2005, Guantanamo hunger strike:

September 14, 2005, Kathleen Gray, Detroit Free Press, Federal ID law may send flood of work to state, county clerks

September 14, 2005, Associated Press/New York Times, Bush Plot Trial On, Despite U.S. Objection

September 14, 2005, Rowan Scarborough, Washington Times/World Peace Herald, U.S. to fund prison in Afghanistan

September 14, 2005, Editorial, Miami Herald, Torture is not the American way

September 14, 2005, Mithre J. Sandrasagra, Inter Press Service News Agency, UN Terror Resolution Overly Vague, HRW Says

September 13, 2005, Carol D. Leonnig, Washington Post, More Join Guantanamo Hunger Strike

September 13, 2005, Eric Lichtblau, New York Times, F.B.I. Found to Violate Its Informant Rules

September 13, 2005, Steve Gutterman, Associated Press/Washington Post, Report: Ex-Taliban Ambassador Released

September 12, 2005, Brendan Coyne, The NewStandard, Judge Lifts Patriot Act Gag Order, Gives Gov't Time to Appeal

September 12, 2005, Sajid Farooq, The Oakland Tribune, Documenting Patriot Act cases poses tough challenge

September 12, 2005, Sajid Farooq, San Mateo County Times, Booksellers at fore of Patriot Act fights

September 12, 2005, Jackson Diehl, Washington Post, Inhuman: Yes or No?

Septemer 11, 2005, Minneapolis Star Tribune, Deaths Feared as at Least 15 Guantanamo Prisoners Hospitalized on Hunger Strike

September 11, 2005, Linda Greenhouse, New York Times, Questions for Judge Roberts

September 11, 2005, Jason deParle, New York Times, Specter Comments on Balance of Power and Constitution

September 11, 2005, Azell Murphy Cavaan & Natalia Munoz, The Republican, Patriot Act makes people think twice

September 11, 2005, Editorial, Boston Globe, The Post-9/11 World

September 10, 2005, Alexandra Olson, Associated Press/Washington Post, U.S. Military Tube-Feeds 13 Gitmo Strikers

September 10, 2005, Alison Leigh Cowan, New York Times, Plaintiffs Win Round in Lawsuit on Patriot Act

September 10, 2005, Barton Gellman, Washington Post, Court Vacates an FBI Gag Order

September 10, 2005, Editorial, New York Times, Abu Ghraib Unresolved

September 9, 2005, Associated Press/New York Times, Judge Lifts Gag Order in Connecticut Library Case

September 9, 2005, Jerry Markon, Washington Post, Court Rules U.S. Can Indefinitely Detain Citizens

September 9, 2005, David Stout, New York Times, Power to Detain U.S. Terror Suspect Is Upheld

September 9, 2005, Neil A. Lewis, New York Times, U.S. Lawyer Is Questioned Over Rights of Detainees

September 9, 2005, Carol D. Leonnig, Washington Post, Judges Question Lack of Prisoner Rights

September 9, 2005, Audrey Gillan, Guardian (UK)/Common Dreams, Hunger Strikers Pledge to Die in Guantánamo

September 9, 2005, BBC News, Guantanamo strike in second month

September 9, 2005, Jerry Markon, Washington Post, N.Va. Man Indicted in Plot Against Bush

September 9, 2005, Alice Lipowicz, Government Computer News, Secure Flight struggles to get off the ground

September 9, 2005, Alexandra Adler, Yale Daily News, Yale cop reports to FBI (JTTF)

September 9, 2005, Human Rights First, Human Rights First Statement on the Fourth Anniversary of September 11

September 9, 2005, William Fisher, OpEd News, THE PRICE OF SECRECY

September 8, 2005, Pete Yost, Associated Press/Washington Post, Court Questions Guantanamo Detainee Issues

September 8, 2005, Brendan Coyne, The NewStandard, Guantánamo Due Process Arguments Today

September 8, 2005, Center for Constitutional Rights/Common Dreams, CCR Releases Report on Hunger Strikes by Guantanamo Detainees Protesting their Indefinite Detention Without Legal Process

September 8, 2005, David Sarasohn, The Nation, The Patriot Act on Trial

September 8, 2005, Sasha Abramsky, The Nation, Terror on the Inner Border

September 7, 2005, Associated Press, DOJ Memo: State, Local Police Have Inherent Right To Enforce Immigration Laws

September 7, 2005, Associated Press/Washington Post, White House Wants Gitmo Appeal Rejected

September 7, 2005, Editorial, Washington Post, The Guantanamo Trials

September 6, 2005, Editorial, Toledo Blade, The battle in Bridgeport

September 5, 2005, Brendan Coyne, The NewStandard, Federal Government Secrecy at All Time High

September 4, 2005, UPI/Science Daily, Report: U.S. seeks Guantanamo partners

September 3, 2005, Alison Leigh Cowan, New York Times, Connecticut Librarians See Lack of Oversight as Biggest Danger in Antiterror Law

September 2, 2005, Stevenson Jacobs, Associated Press, U.S. Denies Guantanamo Bay Prison Abuse

September 2, 2005, Alison Leigh Cowan, New York Times, Hartford Libraries Watch as U.S. Makes Demands

September 2, 2005, Brendan Coyne, The NewStandard, Court Papers Unsealed in Patriot Act Challenge

September 2, 2005, Steve M. Lilienthal, The National Ledger, Patriot Act: The Battle Moves to Conference

September 2, 2005, Editorial, The Daily Progress, Understand Patriot Act

September 2, 2005, Julia Preston, New York Times, Juror Says Her Guilty Vote Was Coerced in Terror Trial

September 2, 2005, Editorial, Bangor Daily News, America's required reading

September 2, 2005, Nat Hentoff, The Village Voice, The Real John Roberts

September 1, 2005, John Friedman, The Nation/Common Dreams, Spying on the Protesters

September 1, 2005, Court case on using PATRIOT Act to access library records:

September 1, 2005, Colin Freeze, Globe and Mail, Canadian teen in Guantanamo on hunger strike, lawyers say

September 1, 2005, Ken Thomas, Associated Press/Washington Post, Bush Bypasses Senate to Install Official

September 1, 2005, Reuters/truthout, Three More Assert Pentagon Knew of 9/11 Ringleader