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Stephen C. Webster
Published: Tuesday December 16, 2008
ACLU victorious as federal court declares Patriot Act provision a violation of the First Amendment
A federal appeals court ruling late Monday is the cause célèbre of the American Civil Liberties Union, as another provision of the Bush administration’s Patriot Act falls to the judicial system.

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David Edwards and Muriel Kane
Published: Wednesday November 12, 2008
The Bush administration has been planning since last spring to issue a final burst of federal regulations just before leaving office. It was recently announced that over 90 new regulations would be finalized before November 22 — 60 days prior to the end of Bush’s term — [...]

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…while the mainstream media buries its head in the sand
by Naomi Wolf
The following is the spin of military spokespeople in response to questions about the deployment of the First Brigade on US soil for the first time in over 200 years.
The Army Times initially reported that the First Brigade would handle domestic crowd control [...]

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By Scott Thill
“Raw capitalism is dead.” — Henry Paulson, U.S. Treasury secretary
“Can’t we just all go out and say things are OK?” — President Bush, to congressional leaders during bailout negotiations
30/09/08 “AlterNet” - — I‘m not much of an Army Times reader, but after reading that a brigade [...]

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September 5th, 2008
Via: Indymedia:
In what appears to be the first use of criminal charges under the 2002 Minnesota version of the Federal Patriot Act, Ramsey County Prosecutors have formally charged 8 alleged leaders of the RNC Welcoming Committee with Conspiracy to Riot in Furtherance of Terrorism. Monica Bicking, Eryn Trimmer, Luce Guillen Givins, Erik Oseland, [...]

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Published: May 8, 2008 at 11:06 AM
SAN FRANCISCO, May 8 (UPI) — The FBI withdrew a secret administrative order for data on a patron of a San Francisco digital library as part of a lawsuit settlement, the library said.

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Posted by kdawson on Wednesday April 16, @08:05AM
I Don’t Believe in Imaginary Property writes
“It probably won’t surprise you, but in 2005, the FBI manufactured evidence to get the power to issue National Security Letters under the PATRIOT Act. Unlike normal subpoenas, NSLs do not require probable cause and you’re never allowed to talk about [...]