By Rick Maze, The Army Times A key Senate committee wants a full explanation by Sept. 1 about why Internet access has been limited for deployed troops, including to such popular Web sites as MySpace and YouTube. The Senate Armed Services Committee did not, however, go so far as to order Internet access restored. Instead,…
The Washington Times Secret government? By Bruce Fein In 2006, House Judiciary Democrats inquired when the Justice Department initially concluded the Authorization to Use Military Force (AUMF) against international terrorism empowered the National Security Agency (NSA) to conduct warrantless electronic surveillance against U.S. citizens in contravention of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 (FISA)….
Reuters President Bush lacks the power to detain an immigrant as an enemy combatant without charge, a federal appeals court ruled Monday. The case involves a Qatari national and suspected al-Qaida operative who is the only person being held in the United States as an “enemy combatant.” In a major setback for the administration, the…
John Byrne, Raw Story The U.S. military has confirmed that it is arming Sunni insurgent factions to try to contain al-Qaida in Mesopotamia, according to a report in Monday’s New York Times by veteran Iraq correspondent John Burns. “With the four-month-old increase in American troops showing only modest success in curbing insurgent attacks, American commanders…
