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GAO: Bad Cooperation Hurts Terror Probes
Seeded on Tue Jun 26, 2007 4:32 PM EDT (The Washington Post)
The Justice, State and Homeland Security Departments have all made it clear they want to help other countries prevent terrorism. They're not nearly as clear about how they plan to do that.
Ex-Surveillance Judge: Can Not Trust Bush on Warrantless Taps
Seeded on Sun Jun 24, 2007 9:36 AM EDT (The Washington Post)
A federal judge who used to authorize wiretaps in terrorism and espionage cases criticized yesterday President Bush's decision to order warrantless surveillance after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
It's His Nature: Rupert Murdoch and Dow Jones
Seeded on Thu Jun 14, 2007 11:34 AM EDT (Columbia Journalism Review)
Family members sensibly fear that he would misuse that paper's journalistic power. Murdoch's answer is that to damage the credibility of the Journal would be to destroy it. Why would he do such a thing?
FBI Frequently Broke Law and own Rules Spying on Americans
Seeded on Thu Jun 14, 2007 9:06 AM EDT (The Washington Post)
An internal FBI audit has found that the bureau potentially violated the law or agency rules more than 1,000 times while collecting data about domestic phone calls, e-mails and financial transactions in recent years, far more than was documented in a Justice Department report in …
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.
CIA Plans Cutbacks on Contractors Due to Cost and Accountability
Seeded on Mon Jun 11, 2007 12:25 PM EDT (The Washington Post)
Acting under pressure from Congress, the CIA has decided to trim its contractor staffing by 10 percent. It is the agency's first effort since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks to curb what critics have decried as the growing privatization of U.S.
Powell calls for closing Guantanamo Bay, moving detainees
Seeded on Mon Jun 11, 2007 9:36 AM EDT (The L.A. Times)
Former Secretary of State Colin Powell said today he favors immediately closing the Guantanamo Bay military prison and moving its detainees to U.S. facilities.
Economic Mobility: Is the American Dream Alive and Well?
Seeded on Fri May 25, 2007 3:35 PM EDT (EconomicMobility.Org)
For more than two centuries economic opportunity and the prospect of upward mobility have formed the bedrock upon which the American story has been anchored--inspiring people in distant lands to seek our shores and sustaining the unwaivering optimism of America at home.
Soak the rest of us: "Rich Paying Less than Ever"
Seeded on Tue Apr 17, 2007 9:47 AM EDT (The Boston Globe)
For decades, the American tax burden has been shifting away from the rich. Now, two economists say, it could be at the brink of a historic tipping point.
Privacy advocates fight for ground lost after 9/11
Seeded on Tue Apr 3, 2007 4:48 PM EDT (Christian Science Monitor)
The trade-off was one plenty of citizens and lawmakers willingly made after 9/11: less individual privacy for better national security.
Evangelicals slam torture in war on terrorism and support environmental activism
Seeded on Mon Mar 12, 2007 4:15 PM EDT (Reuters)
A major U.S. association of evangelical Christians has condemned torture by the U.S. military and reaffirmed its commitment to environmental activism, positions that highlight broader splits in a movement associated with conservative causes.
U.S. economy leaving record numbers in severe poverty
Seeded on Fri Feb 23, 2007 4:15 PM EST (The San Jose Mercury News)
The percentage of poor Americans who are living in severe poverty has reached a 32-year high, millions of working Americans are falling closer to the poverty line and the gulf between the nation's "haves" and "have-nots" continues to widen.... Worker productivity has increased …
Why did the press as a whole fail to question sufficiently the administration's case for war?
Seeded on Fri Feb 9, 2007 5:21 PM EST (Nieman Watchdog)
As the war in Iraq nears its fourth anniversary, and with no end in sight, Americans are owed explanations. The Senate Intelligence Committee has promised a report on whether the Bush administration misrepresented intelligence to justify the war against Iraq.
Military Equipment: Missing in Action
Seeded on Wed Jan 31, 2007 10:19 AM EST (Business Week)
A new Defense audit says the Pentagon has failed to properly equip soldiers in Iraq—just as the President struggles to find support for a troop increase.... The Inspector General found that the Pentagon hasn't been able to properly equip the soldiers it already has.
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.
Is the National Guard Properly Equipped to Protect the Nation if a National Emergency Struck? Nobody knows.
Seeded on Tue Jan 30, 2007 12:05 PM EST (GovernmentExecutive)
Congressional investigators have found that the Defense Department does not adequately track National Guard equipment needs for domestic missions, raising questions about whether the state-run units have adequate supplies to respond to disasters and emergencies on U.S. soil.
Feeding Frenzy for a Big Story, Even if It's False
Seeded on Mon Jan 29, 2007 10:09 AM EST (The New York Times)
Jeffrey T. Kuhner, whose Web site published the first anonymous smear of the 2008 presidential race, is hardly the only editor who will not reveal his reporters' sources. What sets him apart is that he will not even disclose the names of his reporters.
Oil Co. Cheated U.S. out of Millions, Interior Dept Sided with Oil Company
Seeded on Wed Jan 24, 2007 2:42 PM EST (The New York Times)
A federal jury in Denver agreed Tuesday with a former top auditor for the Interior Department that the Kerr-McGee Corporation had cheated the government out of millions of dollars in royalties on oil it produced in publicly owned coastal waters.
GAO faults Homeland Security assessment of risks
Seeded on Fri Jan 19, 2007 10:13 AM EST (GovernmentExecutive)
The Government Accountability Office faulted Homeland Security Department officials Thursday for failing to complete a comprehensive risk assessment for the nation's transportation systems and called for "enhanced federal leadership" to bolster the effort, according to a report.
Passing the Buck: "War on Terror" billed to "Credit Card"
Seeded on Tue Jan 16, 2007 12:36 PM EST (Christian Science Monitor)
To pay for World War II, Americans bought savings bonds and put extra notches in their belts. President Harry Truman raised taxes and cut nonmilitary spending to pay for the Korean conflict. During Vietnam, the US raised taxes but still watched deficits soar.
Pentagon abandons active-duty time limit
Seeded on Fri Jan 12, 2007 10:41 AM EST (Yahoo! News)
The Pentagon has abandoned its limit on the time a citizen-soldier can be required to serve on active duty, officials said Thursday, a major change that reflects an Army stretched thin by longer-than-expected combat in Iraq.
Pentagon Still Hiding Iraq Attack Data
Seeded on Thu Jan 11, 2007 4:16 PM EST (TPMuckraker)
Nearly a month ago, we reported that the Defense Department was refusing a routine request from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to declassify statistics on enemy attacks in Iraq.
Max Boot: The media aren't the enemy in Iraq; Blaming the press for the problems in Iraq deflects the blame from where it belongs.
Seeded on Wed Jan 10, 2007 12:27 PM EST (The L.A. Times)
If you wanted to figure out what was happening over the last four years, you would have been infinitely better off paying attention to their writing than to what the president or his top generals were saying.
Tax Cuts Offer Most for Very Rich, Study Says
Seeded on Mon Jan 8, 2007 10:05 AM EST (The New York Times)
Families earning more than $1 million a year saw their federal tax rates drop more sharply than any group in the country as a result of President Bush's tax cuts, according to a new Congressional study.
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