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...Alito nomination is not the only issue on which the Administration will have to confront the controversy. It will add to Bush's already difficult struggle to renew the most controversial provisions of the USA Patriot Act, which was passed after 9/11 and gave law enforcement broad new powers that have since unsettled some on both the left and the right. Congress last month disappointed the White House by giving the provisions only a five-week extension, setting a new expiration date of Feb. 3. And some kind of congressional investigation into the NSA spying program seems certain. Specter...
...rule” said to bar recipients of such requests from ever speaking about them. Opponents of these provisions also say that the standard under which records can be demanded—relevance to a terrorism or intelligence investigation—is too broad and could potentially be abused. According to Casey, the revised version of the Patriot Act that Congress debated in December addressed some of the worries that had been voiced over these measures. The revised legislation, for instance, stipulates an NSL recipient’s explicit right to consult with an attorney. But a bipartisan group...
...about President Bush's plan to tighten the border with Mexico and establish a limited guest-worker program. He is about to publish an anti-immigration manifesto, Whatever It Takes, that should rile up right-wing radio just as the White House was hoping to gain traction for a broad immigration-reform package...
...chucked academia, moving to a Massachusetts farmhouse "to live a life of spiritual practice and writing." This life plan struck his parents as an enlightened pathway to material nowhere. His mother suggested that he try accounting. For the next 13 years, Kinder worked as a CPA, building a broad base of clients in Cambridge whom he attracted with flyers he attached to windshields on frosty mornings. Now and then he found himself counseling a client on an emotional issue, and locals began to refer to him as "the tax therapist." In time Kinder fell under the sway of the questions...
...Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid of Nevada praised Bush?s ?increased candor,? but complained that ?too much of the substance remains the same.? Indeed, Bush included broad hints that troop reductions are coming next year, but he did not talk about any specific dates or numbers. ?Our forces in Iraq are on the road to victory-and that is the road that will take them home,? he said. So Bush, his credibility and likability eroded by a war with no clear end, is promising the nation there is light at the end of the tunnel-and now must keep convincing...