By Kara Oppenheim, The Hill House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers Jr. (D-Mich.) wants Attorney General Alberto Gonzales to provide Congress with information regarding an electronic government database that is believed to have been controversial among top-level Department of Justice officials. Conyers, along with Reps. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) and Robert “Bobby” Scott, (D-Va.), sent a letter to…
By William Fisher, t r u t h o u t Amid claims of executive privilege by President Bush in the firing of US attorneys, a bipartisan coalition of civil liberties groups has published a new report charging that the administration’s stonewalling is simply part of a six-year pattern of unprecedented government secrecy. The report…
By Aman Ali, The Hill President Bush Saturday pressed Congress to update a security law that would ease restrictions on secret surveillance of terror suspects, a proposal that many Democrats and civil liberty groups are viewing with great suspicion. Bush said the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 was “badly out of date,” and Congress…
By William Fisher, t r u t h o u t Legal authorities are charging that racial profiling is responsible for low-risk Muslim prisoners convicted for crimes the Justice Department intimates are terror-related being held in a segregated unit, where communications are more severely restricted than for high-profile inmates such as al-Qaeda operative Zacarias Moussaoui…
