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• Bush Defends Interrogations

  Published: October 6, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Bush, Defends, Interrogations, George W Bush, United States, U S Department Of Justice, Jay Rockefeller, Michael Hayden, Central Intelligence Agency, The New York Times Company, The Washington Post Company, Carl Levin, Dan Eggen, Peter D Keisler, The White House, Al Qae

  President Bush yesterday vigorously defended the government's efforts to detain and interrogate terrorism suspects, and he clashed with Democratic lawmakers over whether he has properly disclosed information about the classified program.

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• GOP Opposes Attempt To Revise Wiretap Law

  Published: October 10, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Gop, Opposes, Attempt, Revise, Wiretap, Law, The White House, United States, John Conyers, Caroline Fredrikson, Dan Eggen, Rush Holt, Silvestre Reyes, Tony Fratto, American Civil Liberties Union, U S Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, U S Republican Party

  A House Democratic effort to revise the nation's new foreign intelligence surveillance law met swift resistance yesterday from the White House, Republican lawmakers and even some party members.

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• Senate Panel Approves New Surveillance Bill

  Published: October 19, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Senate, Panel, Approves, New, Surveillance, Bill, Kit Bond, United States, At Amp T Inc, Christopher Dodd, Dan Eggen, Patrick Leahy, Ron Wyden, Suzanne E Spaulding, Wayne Watts, Central Intelligence Agency, U S Republican Party, U S Senate Committee On The Judiciary

  The Senate intelligence committee yesterday produced a new bipartisan bill governing foreign intelligence surveillance conducted inside the United States, but objections by several Democratic lawmakers to some of its provisions raised questions about how quickly it might gain passage.

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• Senate Panel Approves New Surveillance Bill

  Published: October 19, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Senate, Panel, Approves, New, Surveillance, Bill, Kit Bond, United States, At Amp T Inc, Christopher Dodd, Dan Eggen, Patrick Leahy, Ron Wyden, Suzanne E Spaulding, The White House, Tony Fratto, Wayne Watts, Central Intelligence Agency, U S Republican Party, U S Senate Comm

  The Senate intelligence committee yesterday produced a new bipartisan bill governing foreign intelligence surveillance conducted inside the United States, but objections by several Democratic lawmakers to some of its provisions raised questions about how quickly it might gain passage.

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• Acquiescence to torture

  Published: December 9, 2007, 3:19 pm

  Tags: Bushist, Dan Eggen, Torture, Wapo, Pelosi, Democrat, Joby Warrick

  Is there anything the Washington Democrats won't allow the Bushists to do?Nancy: You're not tough if you cave every time someone questions your toughness.It is possible that the Bushists are claiming consent by silence when in fact there was none. That's a completely consistent pattern, too.

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• Secret U.S. Intelligence Court Intends To Keep Wiretap Rulings Under Wraps

  Published: December 12, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Secret, U S, Intelligence, Court, Intends, Keep, Wiretap, Rulings, Under, Wraps, American Civil Liberties Union, U S Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, United States, Dan Eggen, Dean Boyd, Jameel Jaffer, John D Bates, National Security Agency, U S Department Of Ju

  A secret U.S. intelligence court has issued its third public ruling in 30 years, declaring that while it agrees on the benefits of making its rulings on warrantless wiretapping public, it will keep them secret.

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• Secret U.S. Intelligence Court Intends To Keep Wiretap Rulings Under Wraps

  Published: December 12, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Secret, U S, Intelligence, Court, Intends, Keep, Wiretap, Rulings, Under, Wraps, American Civil Liberties Union, U S Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, United States, Dan Eggen, Dean Boyd, Jameel Jaffer, John D Bates, National Security Agency, U S Department Of Ju

  A secret U.S. intelligence court has issued its third public ruling in 30 years, declaring that while it agrees on the benefits of making its rulings on warrantless wiretapping public, it will keep them secret.

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• CIA Chief: Hill Should Have Been Told More

  Published: December 13, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Cia, Chief, Hill, Should, Have, Been, Told, More, Michael Hayden, Central Intelligence Agency, Pete Hoekstra, Silvestre Reyes, Michigan, Abd Al Rahim Al Nashiri, Abu Ghraib, Abu Zubaida, Al Abidin Muhammed Hussein, Antonio Taguba, Dan Eggen, George Tenet, John Negroponte, Jos

  Congress was not fully informed about the videotaping of harsh interrogation methods used on two al-Qaeda terrorism suspects in 2002 or the destruction of those tapes three years later, CIA Director Michael V. Hayden said yesterday.

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• Minutes to midnight

  Published: January 17, 2008, 8:51 am

  Tags: Bushist, Dan Eggen, Elizabeth Williamson, Valerie Plame, Crime, White House, Pete Yost, Washington Post, Henry Waxman, Boston Globe

  Is anyone surprised that the White House overwrote its email backups? Wake up Rip Van Winkle.Let's add it up:They revealed this at the last possible moment...only when directly ordered to...despite missing emails being an issue in several investigations.They studied absent emails in secret...but won't release the study they're being sued to

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• Bullshitter in chief

  Published: February 15, 2008, 5:29 pm

  Tags: Surveillance, Fisa, Dan Eggen, Reid, Adam Levine, Michael Abramowitz, Cnn, Pelosi, Congress, Washington Post, Duhbya

  Democrats in the House are endangering the country, and even with his long record of self-serving, fear-mongering bullshit, he gets the headline "Bush: Inaction on FISA endangers U.S."The CNN story is terrible - it puts three Republicans and unnamed intelligence sources up against one paragraph from Nancy Pelosi, and not even her strong

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• Making up the law

  Published: February 12, 2008, 11:08 pm

  Tags: Scalia, Supreme Court, Bushist, Dan Eggen, Torture, Impeach, Washington Post

  Can a man who obviously doesn't believe in law over necessity remain on the Supreme Court? Supreme Court Justice Antonin M. Scalia echoed the administration's view when he said in a BBC Radio interview yesterday that some physical interrogation techniques could be used on a suspect in the event of an imminent threat, such as a hidden bomb about to

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• Descent into evil, with lawyers

  Published: February 12, 2008, 10:16 pm

  Tags: Bushist, Waterboarding, Dan Eggen, Law, Torture, Lawyers, Washington Post, Duhbya

  All the legal rationalizations in the Bushist world won't change the brute, ugly fact that torture is immoral. It's also illegal under American law, though in today's environment of fear and Democratic acquiescence, you never know how long that will remain true.Duhbya promised moral clarity. Who knew that it would be immoral clarity.

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• Letters to Lawmakers May Be Tied to N.Y. Bombing

  Published: March 7, 2008, 12:00 am

  Tags: Letters, Lawmakers, May, Tied, N Y, Bombing, Ray Kelly, Terrance Gainer, Federal Bureau Of Investigation, U S Capitol Police, Clarence Williams, Dan Eggen, Dianne Feinstein, Mary Pat Flaherty, Michael Bloomberg, Paul Boyce, Paul Kane, Quantico, The Pentagon, Times Squ

  Authorities are investigating rambling letters and photographs mailed to several members of Congress that refer to a military recruiting station that was bombed by a hooded person riding a bicycle in New York's Times Square early yesterday morning, congressional officials said.

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• Letters to Lawmakers May Be Tied to N.Y. Bombing

  Published: March 7, 2008, 12:00 am

  Tags: Letters, Lawmakers, May, Tied, N Y, Bombing, Ray Kelly, Terrance Gainer, Federal Bureau Of Investigation, U S Capitol Police, Clarence Williams, Dan Eggen, Dianne Feinstein, Mary Pat Flaherty, Michael Bloomberg, Paul Boyce, Paul Kane, Quantico, The Pentagon, Times Squ

  Authorities are investigating rambling letters and photographs mailed to several members of Congress that refer to a military recruiting station that was bombed by a hooded person riding a bicycle in New York's Times Square early yesterday morning, congressional officials said.

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• FBI Watched Spitzer Before February Incident

  Published: March 12, 2008, 12:00 am

  Tags: Fbi, Watched, Spitzer, Before, February, Incident, Eliot Spitzer, Federal Bureau Of Investigation, Qat International, George Fox, James Tedisco, Mayflower Hotel, North Fork Bancorporation Inc, Qat Consulting Group, Albany, Bill Perkins, Dan Eggen, David Paterson, Manhattan

  NEW YORK, March 11 -- Weeks before a hotel meeting with a prostitute that threatens to derail his career, the FBI staked out New York Gov. Eliot L. Spitzer at the same hotel in an unsuccessful effort to catch him with a high-priced call girl, according to a person with knowledge of the...

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