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By Peter Kaplan, Reuters The Federal Communications Commission narrowly approved on Tuesday a loosening of media ownership restrictions in the 20 biggest U.S. cities, despite objections from consumer groups and a threat by some U.S. senators to revoke the action. The FCC voted 3-2, along party lines, to ease the 32-year-old ban on ownership of…
Congress, courts: What’s Bush hiding with ‘state secrets’?
PAMELA HESS, AP News In federal courts and on Capitol Hill, challenges are brewing to a key legal strategy President Bush is using to protect a secret surveillance program that monitors phone calls and e-mails inside the United States. Under grilling from lawmakers and attack by lawsuits alleging Bush authorized the illegal wiretapping of Americans,…
Bush administration will continue to accept ‘assurances’ from countries that torture
Michael Roston, rawstory.com The State Department has no plans to stop accepting promises that countries with poor human rights record will not torture freed Guantanamo Bay detainees, RAW STORY has learned. The announcement came the same day the group Human Rights Watch published a report showing that seven ex-Guantanamo Bay detainees of Russian descent have…
Prominent Conservatives Launch Effort To Restore “Civil Liberties Under Assault By Executive Branch”
By Melinda Henneberger, Huffington Post Four prominent conservative thinkers are set to launch a campaign “to restore checks and balances and civil liberties protections under assault by the Executive Branch,” arguing that, “since 9/11, the President has acquired too much power.” Former Georgia Congressman Bob Barr, who led the effort to impeach President Clinton, is…
