Christian Science Monitor
by Warren Richey

12/21/05

President Bush's decision to allow the super-secret National Security Agency to spy on Americans without court warrants has touched off stormy debate about his aggressive approach to the war on terror. This clash -- between civil libertarians and the administration's expansive view of presidential power -- is a recurring theme in the Bush White House. It lies at the center of ongoing debates over the government's use of coercive interrogation techniques and the open-ended detention of alleged enemy combatants at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, and in military prisons in the United States...

http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/1221/p02s02-uspo.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp