The Right Call on Phone Records  —  The NSA's Program Safeguards Security — and Civil Liberties  —  On Thursday, USA Today reported that three U.S. telecommunications companies have been voluntarily providing the National Security Agency with anonymized domestic telephone records …

Bush May Widen National Guard Patrols at Border  —  President Bush will push next week for a broad overhaul of the nation's immigration laws and plans to tighten security on the borders, possibly with a wider deployment of the National Guard, White House officials said yesterday.

Ousted CIA No. 3 Is Target of Raids  —  Foggo's Home and Langley Office Swept in Corruption Probe  —  Federal agents yesterday searched the CIA offices and Northern Virginia home of Kyle "Dusty" Foggo, the spy agency's No. 3 official who was forced to resign this week amid …

Spy Agency Watching Americans From Space  —  WASHINGTON (AP) - A little-known spy agency that analyzes imagery taken from the skies has been spending significantly more time watching U.S. soil.  —  In an era when other intelligence agencies try to hide those operations …

Alabama candidate for AG disputes Holocaust, is coming to NJ  —  BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — A Democratic candidate for Alabama attorney general denies the Holocaust occurred and said Friday he will speak this weekend in New Jersey to a "pro-white" organization that is widely viewed as being racist.

Information Please  —  Oh, sorry, it's not 1942.  It's 2006, and these three phone giants are about to be excoriated for cooperating with the war on terror.  Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Arlen Specter has demanded that ATT, Verizon, and BellSouth testify under oath about their assistance …

Leviathan … If someone would just translate The Leviathan into modern colloquial English - or even better, turn it into a comic book - I think Shrub might discover a new favorite philosopher.  Maybe not on same plane as Jesus Christ (and certainly not as politically advantageous) …

Corrections: For the Record  —  An article on Monday about the state-owned energy company of Bolivia misstated the position held at the company from 1969 to 1979 by Carlos d'Arlach, now an opposition senator, who expressed opposition to the government's recent nationalization of its oil and gas reserves.

A Bitter Game: Beijing Battles With Vatican  —  SHENYANG, China, May 9 — From the moment in 1978 when China reopened itself, conditionally, to the outside world, the Roman Catholic Church has been painstakingly working to get back in.  Hopes have been raised, then dashed …

Baby Huey vs The Dauphin  —  They really didn't need to do this poll on whether Clinton outperformed Bush.  It's obvious to anyone who lived through the era.  What the story fails to mention is that Clinton outperformed Bush while fighting off the rabid, slavering GOP congress of Newt Gingrich …

U.N. Finds New Uranium Traces in Iran  —  Atomic inspectors have found traces of highly enriched uranium on equipment linked to an Iranian military base, raising new questions about whether Iran harbors a clandestine program to make nuclear bombs, diplomats said yesterday.

Conservative Battle Fatigue  —  Several of my favorite bloggers, self-described conservatives of various stripes, properly respected stalwarts of reasonability and probity, have offered considered reasons to split with George Bush.  —  Mark Tapscott's decades of dedication and contribution …

The CIA 1—Bush 0  —  PORTER GOSS'S TENURE as director of central intelligence began with a public spat between the new reform-minded CIA leadership and an intransigent bureaucracy.  Now, 18 months later, it is ending in a cloud of confusion.  Goss is gone and so are his agents of change.