November 29, 2003 | 4 Shawwal 1424 Hijriah
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The ClipboardMission Creep Hits Home
It's not that we're heading toward martial law. We're not. But outside the view of most of the public, the government is daily expanding military operations into areas of local government and law enforcement that historically have been off-limits. And...
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The ClipboardTerror experts fault Iraq war
"From the perspective of counterterrorism professionals, the war in Iraq was not a continuation, but a diversion," they write. No evidence of links between deposed Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein and al-Qaeda has been made public since the U.S. invasion, despite...
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The ClipboardCongress Expands FBI Spying Power
Congress approved a bill on Friday that expands the reach of the Patriot Act, reduces oversight of the FBI and intelligence agencies and, according to critics, shifts the balance of power away from the legislature and the courts. A provision...
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The ClipboardSweeping new emergency laws to counter UK terror fears
Sweeping measures to deal with terrorist attacks and other emergencies are to be announced this week, giving the Government power to over-ride civil liberties in times of crisis, and evacuate threatened areas, restrict people's movements and confiscate property. The Civil...
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The ClipboardRevealed: Britain's plan to expel thousands of asylum children
Thousands of vulnerable child refugees who have fled to Britain on their own will be forcibly sent back to their home countries, The Independent on Sunday can reveal. Senior Home Office civil servants are drafting detailed plans to return unaccompanied...
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The ClipboardThomas Jefferson and Slavery
Meanwhile, the installation of huge prisons in sparsely populated rural areas today serves a similar function as the 3/5ths weighted vote served for the first hundred years of this country's existence. Annelle Williams points out that "though it has not...
