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Court Rules Against Indefinite Detention of Residents by President
Seeded on Mon Jun 11, 2007 2:09 PM EDT (Yahoo! News)
The Bush administration cannot legally detain a U.S. resident it suspects of being an al-Qaida sleeper agent without charging him, a divided federal appeals court ruled Monday.
Frontline: Spying on the Home Front
Seeded on Mon May 14, 2007 11:30 AM EDT (Salon.com)
Tomorrow night at 9:00 p.m. Eastern, PBS's Frontline is broadcasting a new documentary entitled Spying on the Home Front, which examines the numerous ways in which the government's domestic surveillance powers have been vastly expanded since 9/11.
Bush Administration Uses DOJ to Restrict Voter Turnout and Benefit GOP
Seeded on Mon Apr 23, 2007 11:37 AM EDT (McClatchy Newspapers)
For six years, the Bush administration, aided by Justice Department political appointees, has pursued an aggressive legal effort to restrict voter turnout in key battleground states in ways that favor Republican political candidates.
Iacocca: Patriots Should Be outraged at Abuses of Bush Administration
Seeded on Wed Apr 11, 2007 1:09 PM EDT (The Carpetbagger Report)
But someone has to speak up. I hardly recognize this country anymore. The President of the United States is given a free pass to ignore the Constitution, tap our phones, and lead us to war on a pack of lies.
FBI Provided Inaccurate Data for Surveillance Warrants
Seeded on Tue Mar 27, 2007 3:38 PM EDT (The Washington Post)
FBI agents repeatedly provided inaccurate information to win secret court approval of surveillance warrants in terrorism and espionage cases, prompting officials to tighten controls on the way the bureau uses that powerful anti-terrorism tool, according to Justice Department and …
Bush Aborted DOJ Probe That Probably Would Have Targeted Gonzales
Seeded on Thu Mar 15, 2007 12:16 PM EDT (National Journal)
Shortly before Attorney General Alberto Gonzales advised President Bush last year on whether to shut down a Justice Department inquiry regarding the administration's warrantless domestic eavesdropping program, Gonzales learned that his own conduct would likely be a focus of the …
Bush Is Not Above the Law
Seeded on Wed Jan 31, 2007 10:54 AM EST (The New York Times)
LAST August, a federal judge found that the president of the United States broke the law, committed a serious felony and violated the Constitution.
FBI turns to broad new wiretap method
Seeded on Tue Jan 30, 2007 4:50 PM EST (CNET)
The FBI appears to have adopted an invasive Internet surveillance technique that collects far more data on innocent Americans than previously has been disclosed.
Test of Bush's authority to indefinitely detain non-citizens without charge heads to higher court
Seeded on Tue Jan 30, 2007 3:52 PM EST (Christian Science Monitor)
Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri has been held in government custody for more than five years and has spent the last three and a half years in a South Carolina military prison under interrogation as a presidentially designated enemy combatant.
Unveiled Threats: A Bush appointee's crude gambit on detainees' legal rights
Seeded on Fri Jan 12, 2007 3:02 PM EST (The Washington Post)
MOST AMERICANS understand that legal representation for the accused is one of the core principles of the American way. Not, it seems, Cully Stimson, deputy assistant secretary of defense for detainee affairs. In a repellent interview yesterday with Federal News Radio, Mr.
Killing Habeas Corpus
Seeded on Tue Nov 28, 2006 2:47 PM EST (New Orleans Journal)
Since the Middle Ages, habeas corpus—"You should have the body"—has been the principal means in Anglo-American jurisprudence by which prisoners can challenge their incarceration.
The White House Warden: Congress may give the president the power to lock up almost anyone he thinks is a terror threat
Seeded on Thu Sep 28, 2006 3:24 PM EDT (The L.A. Times)
BURIED IN THE complex Senate compromise on detainee treatment is a real shocker, reaching far beyond the legal struggles about foreign terrorist suspects in the Guantanamo Bay fortress.
2 American Citizens barred by the Bush administration from re-entering the country.
Seeded on Sun Aug 27, 2006 9:17 PM EDT (The San Francisco Chronicle)
The San Francisco Chronicle details the story of two U.S. citizens -- a 45-year old resident of the San Francisco area and his 18-year old son -- who, after travelling to Pakistan, have been barred by the Bush administration from re-entering the country.
The Bush Power-Grab Scorecard
Seeded on Thu Aug 17, 2006 10:34 PM EDT (Wired News)
Thursday's ruling in Michigan against the government's telephone and internet surveillance program is only the latest in a series of blows to the Bush administration's anti-terrorism policies, and its overarching assertion that the executive branch should have wartime powers t …
King endorses religious & ethnic profiling
Seeded on Thu Aug 17, 2006 11:26 AM EDT (Newsday.com)
Declaring that airport screeners shouldn't be hampered by "political correctness," House Homeland Security Chairman Peter King has endorsed requiring people of "Middle Eastern and South Asian" descent to undergo additional security checks because of their ethnicity and religion.
Top Military Lawyers Oppose Bush's Plan for Special Courts
Seeded on Thu Aug 3, 2006 11:40 AM EDT (The Washington Post)
The military's top uniformed lawyers, appearing at a Senate hearing yesterday, criticized key provisions of a proposed new U.S.
Democrats Document 26 Laws Broken By Bush Administration
Seeded on Mon Jul 31, 2006 8:01 PM EDT (TPMuckraker)
The Bush administration may have broken over two dozen federal laws and regulations -- some of them multiple times -- according to an unreleased report from the House Judiciary Committee Democrats.
Roberts & Alito Misled the Senate and the Nation
Seeded on Sun Jul 30, 2006 4:29 PM EDT (The Washington Post)
[T]he careful, bipartisan process of years past -- like so many checks and balances rooted in our Constitution -- has been badly broken by the current Bush administration. The result has been the confirmation of two justices, John G. Roberts Jr. and Samuel A.
Bush Bill Would Allow Indefinite Detention of US Citizens Without Charge
Seeded on Sat Jul 29, 2006 3:45 PM EDT (Associated Press)
U.S. citizens suspected of terror ties might be detained indefinitely and barred from access to civilian courts under legislation proposed by the Bush administration, say legal experts reviewing an early version of the bill.
GOP Likely to Block Specter's Sue the President Bill
Seeded on Wed Jul 26, 2006 2:34 PM EDT (CQ.com)
The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee is preparing for another showdown with the White House, this time over President Bush's use of "signing statements" to challenge provisions he finds objectionable in bills he signs into law.
Specter/Bush/Cheney Spying Authorization Bill Faces Senate Resistance
Seeded on Fri Jul 21, 2006 5:07 PM EDT (The Washington Post)
A Senate surveillance bill personally negotiated by President Bush and Vice President Cheney ran into immediate trouble this week, as Democrats and other critics attacked the proposal while key GOP leaders in the House endorsed a different bill on the same topic.
Republican Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee to White House: Your failure to keep Congress informed on spying programs may be breaking the law
Seeded on Sun Jul 9, 2006 12:23 PM EDT (The New York Times)
In a sharply worded letter to President Bush in May, an important Congressional ally charged that the administration might have violated the law by failing to inform Congress of some secret intelligence programs and risked losing Republican support on national security matters.
Congress Questions President's Assertion He can Pick and Choose Which Portions of Laws to follow
Seeded on Mon Jun 26, 2006 8:39 PM EDT (Associated Press)
The Senate Judiciary Committee is opening hearings this week into what has become the White House's favorite tool for overriding Congress in the name of wartime national security.
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