By DEB RIECHMANN, Associated Press Writer …Spokesman Scott Stanzel said Thursday the White House has received a many requests for information since Democrats took control of Congress in January and has turned over 200,000 pages of documents.”They’ve launched over 300 investigations, had over 350 requests for documents and interviews and they have had over 600…
Associated Press A federal appeals court Friday ordered the dismissal of a lawsuit challenging President Bush’s domestic spying program, saying the plaintiffs had no standing to sue. The 2-1 ruling by the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel vacated a 2006 order by a lower court in Detroit, which had found the post-Sept. 11…
Nieman Watchdog ‘Supporting the troops’ means withdrawing them COMMENTARY | July 05, 2007 By William E. Odom [William E. Odom is a retired U.S. Army 3-star general, and former Director of the NSA under President Ronald Reagan] To force him to begin a withdrawal before then, the first step should be to rally the public…
By Luke O’Brien, Wired Life in an FBI muzzle is no fun. Two Connecticut librarians on Sunday described what it was like to be slapped with an FBI national security letter and accompanying gag order. It sounded like a spy movie or, gulp, something that happens under a repressive foreign government. Peter Chase and Barbara…
