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Rosa Brooks / Los Angeles Times:
Did Bush commit war crimes? — Supreme Court's decision in Hamdan vs. Rumsfeld could expose officials to prosecution. — THE SUPREME Court on Thursday dealt the Bush administration a stinging rebuke, declaring in Hamdan vs. Rumsfeld that military commissions for trying terrorist suspects violate …
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USA Today:
A note to our readers — On May 11, USA TODAY reported that the National Security Agency, with the cooperation of several of America's leading telecommunications companies, had compiled a database of domestic phone call records in an effort to monitor terrorist activity.
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USA Today:
Lawmakers: NSA database incomplete — WASHINGTON — Members of the House and Senate intelligence committees confirm that the National Security Agency has compiled a massive database of domestic phone call records. But some lawmakers also say that cooperation by the nation's telecommunication companies …
Editor and Publisher:
Sulzberger Responds to 'WSJ' Editorial Slamming the 'NYT' — NEW YORK After remaining mum for the past week, even as controversy swirled around newspapers' revealing the banking records surveillance program, the Wall Street Journal editoral page weighed in today.
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Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
Foreign Policy Tries a Little Shake, Rattle and Roll — MEMPHIS, June 30— In the annals of international diplomacy, it was not exactly Yalta. But today's visit to Graceland — the ticky-tacky Elvis Presley mansion here — by President Bush and Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi of Japan brought …
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Tatiana Siegel / Hollywood Reporter:
Superman eschews longtime patriot act — Nevermind Superman's sexual orientation. Here's another identity-related question that is likely to spark controversy as the Man of Steel soars into theaters nationwide this Fourth of July weekend in Warner Bros. Pictures' "Superman Returns": Is Superman still American?
Washington Post:
Immigration Deadlock Revisited — Fear of Voter Backlash Prompts GOP Senators to Consider House's Tougher Bill — Republican Senate leaders are considering how to revive immigration legislation and cut a deal with the more hard-line House, a sign of increasing GOP concern that inaction …
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CNN:
Israeli TV: Doctor treated kidnapped soldier — Palestinian leader: Israel aims to destroy Hamas government — JERUSALEM (CNN) — A doctor told Israeli TV on Friday that he has seen kidnapped 19-year-old army Cpl. Gilad Shalit and treated him for injuries.
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Tkarr / Save the Internet:
Stopping the Big Giveaway - by John Kerry — Editor's Note: The following is a guest blog for SavetheInternet.com by Senator John Kerry (D-Mass.): — On Wednesday in the Senate Commerce Committee I warned that those of us who believe in net neutrality will block legislation that doesn't get the job done.
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Megan Twohey / JSOnline:
Sept. 11 claim stirs UW probe — Instructor says U.S. planned the attacks to provoke war — mtwohey@journalsentinel.com — The University of Wisconsin-Madison announced Thursday that it would launch a review of an instructor who argues that the U.S. government orchestrated the Sept. 11 attacks for its own benefit.
Guardian:
Guardian finds Afghan witnesses US couldn't — Declan Walsh in Gardez — The US government said it could not find the men that Guantánamo detainee Abdullah Mujahid believes could help set him free. The Guardian found them in three days. — Two years ago the US military invited Mr Mujahid …
Dana Blanton / Fox News:
06/29/06 FOX News Poll: Bush Approval Holding — NEW YORK — A new FOX News poll finds that President George W. Bush is holding onto the gains he made earlier in the month as his approval rating comes in at 41 percent. Most Americans support the government program to track possible terrorist funding …
Jerusalem Post:
New UN rights body targets Israel — GENEVA — The new UN Human Rights Council voted Friday to make a review of alleged human rights abuses by Israel a permanent feature of every council session. — The resolution, which was sponsored by Islamic countries, was passed by a vote of 29-12, with five abstentions.
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New York Times:
Kerik Pleads Guilty for Gifts and a Loan — Bernard B. Kerik, the former New York City police commissioner, pleaded guilty today to two misdemeanor charges as the result of accepting tens of thousands of dollars of gifts and a loan while he was a city official in the late 1990's.
Ryan Lenz / Associated Press:
U.S. troops accused of killing Iraq family — BEIJI, Iraq - Five U.S. Army soldiers are being investigated for allegedly raping a young woman, then killing her and three members of her family in Iraq, a U.S. military official said Friday. — The soldiers also allegedly burned the body …
reuters.excite.com:
US, Iraqi forces clash with Shi'ite militia — BAQUBA, Iraq (Reuters) - Iraqi and U.S. troops battled Shi'ite militiamen in a village northeast of Baghdad on Thursday, and witnesses and police said U.S. helicopters bombed orchards to flush out gunmen hiding there.
H. Josef Hebert / Associated Press:
House lifts offshore drilling ban — WASHINGTON - Congress has taken a major step toward allowing oil and gas drilling in coastal waters that have been off limits for a quarter-century. — Still, a battle looms in the Senate over the issue. And the Bush administration's support for the legislation …