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Robert Scheer: The Great American Stickup

Sunday 19-Sep

Paul George: Iran and the Bomb - What's the Real Story?

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Paul George: Iran and the Bomb - What's the Real Story?

Saturday 25-Sep

Robert Fisk: Lies, Misreporting, and Catastrophe in the Middle East

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Reese Erlich: Conversations with Terrorists

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2/17/06 - Barbara Lee:

By Barbara Lee
t r u t h o u t.org | Perspective

Friday 17 February 2006

When I cast the lone vote against the September 14, 2001, Use of Force Resolution, I believed, as I do today, that Congress had no business authorizing an unspecified war against an unspecified enemy for an unspecified period of time, and I was worried that the over-broad authority of the resolution was vulnerable to abuse.

Certainly few, if any, who supported the resolution could have believed that they were casting a vote for warrantless spying on Americans. As former Senator Tom Daschle has pointed out, Congress specifically rejected the administration's efforts to secure in the resolution free reign to conduct domestic spying. The administration therefore knew that the law prohibited them from conducting warrantless domestic spying on US citizens, and they sought to change the law and failed.

2/16/06 - 325,000 Names on U.S. Terror Suspect List: Report

JoAnne Allen
Reuters

A government database of alleged international terrorism suspects or associates includes 325,000 names, four times more than when the central list was created in 2003, The Washington Post reported on Wednesday, citing counterterrorism officials.

The list maintained by the National Counterterrorism Center, or NCTC, contains far more names in a single government database than has previously been disclosed, the newspaper said.

2/16/06 - Blair Wins Parliament Vote Criminalizing 'Glorification' of Terror

ALAN COWELL
New York Times

After a series of bruising parliamentary duels, Prime Minister Tony Blair secured victory in the House of Commons on Wednesday in a vote to expand counterterrorism laws by making "glorification" of terrorism a criminal offense.

2/15/06 - Whistleblower Says NSA Violations Bigger

UPI
UPI

A former NSA employee said Tuesday there is another ongoing top-secret surveillance program that might have violated millions of Americans' Constitutional rights.

2/14/06 - US Group Implants Electronic Tags in Workers

Richard Waters
Financial Times

An Ohio company has embedded silicon chips in two of its employees - the first known case in which US workers have been �tagged� electronically as a way of identifying them.

2/14/06 - Spinning Fear

Marjorie Cohn
t r u t h o u t

Marjorie Cohn writes: CBS newscaster Edward R. Murrow was one of the few journalists who had the courage to stand up to the fear-mongering and bring the truth to the American people. Describing the omnipresent fear that the government was fostering, Murrow told his colleagues, "The terror's in the room." It's dej� vu with the Bush administration ensuring that terror is always in the room.

Jeremy Brecher: Reining in the President

By Jeremy Brecher and Brendan Smith, TheNation.com

The constitutional crisis facing the United States has only deepened as a result of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales's testimony on warrantless domestic spying before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Monday. Karl Rove's well-publicized scheme to tar critics of the secret NSA program as friends of terrorism has fallen flat.

Despite the committee's indulgence of Gonzales's stonewalling, the hearing revealed deep bipartisan concern about a presidency that defies all checks and balances. Committee chair Arlen Specter promised further hearings and said he would consider subpoenas for documents the Administration is withholding. These are the first indications that the institutions of restraint on presidential power, while comatose, may not be dead.

2/12/06 - VA Nurse Investigated for 'Sedition' for Criticizing Bush

Matthew Rothschild
The Progressive

A clinical nurse specialist at the VA Medical Center in Albuquerque wrote a letter to the editor of the weekly paper criticizing the Bush Administration. After the paper published the letter, VA administrators seized her computer, alleged that she had written the letter on that computer and accused her of "sedition."

2/11/06 - Hey, Kids: Spying Is Fun!

Simon Maxwell Apter
TheNation.com

Using cartoons, games and kid-friendly websites, the federal intelligence community is seeking to win the hearts and minds of America's children.

2/10/06 - Senate Republicans Craft Patriot Act Deal

Richard Cowan
Reuters

Senate Republicans reached a deal with the White House on Thursday that would likely clear the way for renewing the USA Patriot Act, a key element of President Bush's war on terror.

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