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17 hrs ago | News Max

FBI and CIA Deserve Our Thanks

As we count our blessings on Thanksgiving, let's remember why we can do so in safety.

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Related Topix: Publishing, New York Times, Prison, US News, Terrorism

Yesterday | Bloomberg Business News

Health-Care Bill Faces Traffic Jam as Senate Weighs Debt, Tax Legislation

Raising the U.S. governmenta s $12.2 trillion borrowing limit tops an agenda of must-pass legislation that imperils Senate Democratsa ability to pass a health-care bill this year.

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Related Topix: Healthcare Law, Law, Medicare, Health, US News, Illinois, US Politics, Senator Ben Nelson, US Senate, Democrat

Tue Nov 24, 2009

Nikki's Nest

Obama Quietly Backs Patriot Act Provisions

POLITICS-US: Obama Quietly Backs Patriot Act Provisions William Fisher NEW YORK, 23 Nov - With the health care debate preoccupying the mainstream media, it has gone virtually unreported that the Barack Obama administration is quietly supporting renewal of provisions of the George W. Bush-era USA Patriot Act that civil libertarians say infringe on ...

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Related Topix: US News, US Politics, 2008 Presidential Election, Barack Obama, US Senate, Democrat, George Bush

Mon Nov 23, 2009

The Georgian Times

Patriot Act for Georgia

The Georgian Parliament is to discuss adopting a Patriot Act, which its authors say curbs the terrorist threat to Georgia.

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Related Topix: US News, Terrorism, World News, Georgia, Prison

NAFCU

FinCEN to expand 314(a) program

Nov. 17, 2009 - The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network is taking comments until Dec.

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Related Topix: US News

Sat Nov 21, 2009

New York Times

Legislative Pileup Looms in the Senate

When Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid was informed that the House had taken less than an hour to approve an unemployment bill that languished for a month in the Senate, his aides said he did not know whether to laugh or cry.

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Related Topix: US News, US Politics, US Senate, Republican, Mitch McConnell

Thu Nov 19, 2009

The Oregonian

Patriot Act: We don?t know what we don?t know

There are things we know, said the philosophical former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, and there are things we know we don't know.

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Related Topix: US News, US Politics, US Senate, Ron Wyden, Democrat

Tue Nov 17, 2009

Salem-News.com

Senators Press Holder to Declassify Key Facts about Patriot Act

In anticipation of the upcoming Senate debate over Patriot Act reauthorization, U.S. Senators Ron Wyden Russ Feingold and Dick Durbin asked U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder to declassify key information pertaining to the law's "business records" provision .

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Related Topix: US News, US Politics, US Senate, Ron Wyden, Democrat, Terrorism

Privacy Digest

Handy Chart Tracks Proposed Amendments to Patriot Act

Confused by all the proposed changes to the Patriot Act ricocheting through the Capitol? The Center for Democracy and Technology has put together a handy chart comparing the current law with the various amendments in the House and Senate.

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Related Topix: US News, US Federal Bureau of Investigation

Mon Nov 16, 2009

The Boston Globe

Protecting our rights, freedom

OUR NATION was profoundly changed by the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, and we will carry that legacy with us forever.

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Related Topix: Terrorism, World News, Asia, Afghanistan, US News, Opinion

Sat Nov 14, 2009

Associated Content

The USA Patriot Act: Security or Liberty?

The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, and the resulting deaths of 3,000 innocent Americans instantly changed the face of the United States, its government and its people forever.

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Related Topix: US News, Immigration Reform

The Sandspur

Fighting terrorism and protecting patriotism

EXERCISING RIGHTS: Americans exercise their constitutional rights. Many individuals question whether the passing of the Patriot Act was necessary to save American lives.

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Related Topix: US News, Opinion

Fri Nov 13, 2009

The Sandspur

Patriot act subjugates constitutional rights

On Sept. 11, 2001, 2,976 Americans died in a series of terrorist attacks on American soil.

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Related Topix: US News, ACLU, Prison, Criminal Defense Law, Law, US Military Prisons, Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, Opinion

Jurist

US anti-terrorism laws turning away valid refugee claimants: rights group

Under the current interpretation of these laws, persons may fall within such categories on a number of bases, including ties to US-supported opposition groups or actions considered legal under international law.

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Related Topix: Immigration Reform, US News, US Politics, US Senate, Democrat, Daniel Akaka

Pasadena Weekly

Spies in our midst

Outraged to learn that government agents have been spying on American anti-war demonstrators, Pasadena Congressman Adam Schiff has joined a chorus of lawmakers and activists calling for an investigation into potential civil liberties abuses by Bush administration officials.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, US House of Representatives, Adam Schiff, Democrat, Hollywood (Los Angeles, CA), George Bush, Maxine Waters

Thu Nov 12, 2009

Air America Radio

Asylum Seekers Trapped By Anti-Terror Laws

Beware the terrorists among us: a traumatized child soldier from the Democratic Republic of Congo; a political activist from Cameroon; and a kidnapping victim from Sri Lanka.

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Related Topix: Immigration Reform, US News, Terrorism

TheHill.com

The Big Question: Will Patriot Act reauthorization divide Dems, hamper healthcare?

Some of the nation's top political commentators, legislators and intellectuals offer insight into the biggest question burning up the blogosphere today: Today's question: The House and Senate are moving forward with different bills to reauthorize the Patriot Act, which expires at the end of the year.

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Related Topix: US News, US Politics, 2008 Presidential Election, Barack Obama

National Journal

Whack-A-Mole In The War On Terror

Advisers to Obama "are preparing three options for escalating the war effort in Afghanistan, all of them calling for more American troops, as he moves closer to a decision on the way forward in the eight-year-old war," the New York Times reports.

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Related Topix: US News, Terrorism

Tue Nov 10, 2009

WMAL-AM Washington

Rush Limbaugh: Status Report on Hope

Scroll to the bottom of the page to leave your feedback. Rush Limbaugh: Last Thursday, the House Judiciary Committee voted to strip the Patriot Act of a provision allowing the government to spy on people who aren't linked to known terrorist groups -- the so-called lone wolf provision.

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Related Topix: Rush Limbaugh, US News

Lowell Sun

Capuano: 'Declare victory and come home'

U.S. Rep. Michael Capuano, one of four Democratic candidates for Senate, said yesterday there are three issues on which he will not compromise: war and peace, civil liberties, and human rights.

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Related Topix: US Politics, Michael Capuano, US News, US House of Representatives, Democrat, 2008 Presidential Election

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