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Feinstein Wants to Limit Contractors’ Access to Classified Info
Following news accounts of how the government has been collecting and storing millions of phone call records, e-mail messages and other forms of electronic communications every day, the chairman...
Attorney General Holder: “No Intention to Spy” on Congress
Attorney General Eric Holder offered to answer in closed session when asked in a Senate hearing if the executive branch had been monitoring the phone calls of members of...
Obama Defends Mass Surveillance; Internet Firms Deny Playing Part
"Nobody is listening to the content of people's phone calls," President Obama said Friday as he sought to allay concern arising from news reports over the previous two days...
Mayor Bloomberg Named “Nanny of the Month” — Again
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has been named Reason magazine's "Nanny of the Month" for May. ...
NSA Mining Data of Nine Internet Companies, Post Reports
The NSA and FBI are "tapping directly into the central servers of nine leading U.S. Internet companies, extracting audio, video, photographs, e-mails, documents and connection logs that enable analysts...
Secret Records Seizures Called “Critical Tool” in Protecting America
In what President Obama has called "the most transparent administration in history," a secret order from a secret court, authorizing the secret collection of untold millions of Americans' phone...
Congress Looks to Revise, Expand President’s War Powers
The Constitution requires that Congress decide whether and when we will go to war, yet Congress chooses instead to "authorize" and expand power for the president to decide. ...
Iraq War Paying Off — for China
Remember those assurances that the Iraq War would pay for itself, once those oil revenues began gushing forth from a liberated Iraq? Well, a decade later the Iraq War...
Obama’s FBI Pick No Friend of the Constitution
James B. Comey, the man reported to be President Obama's choice to succeed Robert Mueller as director of the FBI, vigorously supported the decision to imprison José Padilla indefinitely...
Behind Eric Holder’s Closed Door, News Execs Plead Case for Free Press
Representatives of several major news organizations went behind closed doors Thursday in an off-the-record discussion with Attorney General Eric Holder on the rules governing Department of Justice searches of...
McCain Visits Rebel Army in Syria
John McCain has put "boots on the ground" in Syria after all — his own. The senior senator from Arizona and ranking Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee...
Neoconservative Republicans Knock Obama’s Shift in War on Terror
A number of Republicans spent part of the Memorial Day weekend roundly criticizing the plan announced by President Obama last week to limit the scope and eventually end the...
Rep. Schiff’s Bill Would Repeal Authorization for Use of Military Force
U.S. Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) is preparing a bill to repeal the post-9/11 legislation that two presidents have relied on as justification for waging war in several countries simultaneously....
An Empire of Graves “Around the Globe”
“Ask him about the cemeteries, Dean!” The speaker, if the story is true, was President Lyndon B. Johnson instructing Secretary of State Dean Rusk on what to say to...
Mass. Senate Race: Gomez Name-Calls After Markey Attack Ad
The special election for U.S. Senate in Massachusetts has turned ugly, with Republican Gabriel Gomez calling Democrat Ed Markey "pond scum" after a Markey TV ad featuring a split...