Tell the Presidential Candidates: Get Back to D.C. and Protect our Civil Liberties
The Senate seems once again poised to cave in to the Bush administration’s fear mongering tactics. In upcoming days the Senators will once again be addressing domestic wiretapping legislation that gives President Bush all the tools he wants to infringe on Americans’ civil […]

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Please call Senator’s Tester and Baucus and insist they oppose this recommendation.
By PHILIP SHENON and ERIC LICHTBLAU
Published: January 24, 2008
WASHINGTON — The Justice Department lawyer who wrote a series of classified legal opinions in 2005 authorizing harsh C.I.A. interrogation techniques was renominated by the White House on Wednesday to a senior department post, a move […]

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Battle Over Wiretapping Is Heating Up on the Hill
By Walter Alarkon
The Hill
Thursday 24 January 2008
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) urged President Bush on Wednesday to support a one-month extension of an interim foreign-intelligence surveillance law that expires on Feb. 1.
In a letter to Bush, Reid wrote that it is doubtful the Senate can pass […]

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