The lengthy piece of legislation would let police arrest people in public places who will not give their names, address and birth dates, even if they are not doing anything wrong.

http://www.newsnet5.com/news/5580743/detail.html


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The vote was on the GOP budget bill , It passed by 6 votes. Take a look at the official roll call and you'll see that 6 Democrats didn't show up to vote. They are...

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Mail Opening:

For a period of approximately two decades, agencies of the U.S. government ran operations which opened the mail of some American citizens.

http://www.aarclibrary.org/publib/church/reports/vol4/contents.htm


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Church Committee Reports:

These 14 published reports of the Church Committee contain a wealth of information on the formation, operation, and abuses of U.S. intelligence agencies.

http://www.aarclibrary.org/publib/church/reports/contents.htm


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This show explores the personal effect it and related new laws have had on American citizens.

http://www.aclu.tv/video/pat-windls.html


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The presiding judge of a secret court that oversees government surveillance in espionage and terrorism cases is arranging a classified briefing for her fellow judges to address their concerns about the legality of President Bush's domestic spying program, according to several intelligence and government sources.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2002698174_spying22.html


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Congress to Probe Domestic Spying:

A prominent Republican senator promised to hold public hearings, the House of Representatives Democratic leader and the ranking Democratic member of the Senate Intelligence Committee said they had objected to the programme, and a California Democratic Senator said a number of legal authorities had told her that the president's actions rose to the level of impeachable offences.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11357.htm

A few weeks ago General Odom said, 'I think the army is already broken.'

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11362.htm

By Gary Hart

Today, one has only to consider the behavior of the Bush administration during the Iraq war to appreciate how soon we forget, how little we learn and how pervasive is the tendency to violate civil and constitutional liberties in the name of war. Virtually all of the reforms recommended by the Church Committee — many of which were passed into law — have been evaded, ignored or violated in the name of the "war on terrorism."

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11359.htm

By Kate Martin
Center for National Security Studies

The President claims he has authority as the Commander-in-Chief to conduct warrantless wiretaps of Americans. But when Congress enacted the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act in 1978, it expressly rejected the President’s claim of inherent authority to conduct warrantless wiretaps. It then went further and made it a crime to conduct such wiretaps.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11360.htm

Early Warning

By William M. Arkin

We must pledge allegiance to a certain post 9/11 Order, abandon the rule of law, compromise our values, turn against our neighbors, enlist in a clash of civilizations, all in the name of defeating the terrorists.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11358.htm