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Many of the new rules could easily be applied to conduct surveillance on ordinary Americans. The act gives the government broad new power to conduct "sneak and peek" searches--to go into Americans' homes when they're out and look around without telling anyone. Such searches are far more intrusive than traditional "knock and announce" ones...
...Eastern accent who had spelled out his name "D as in destruction, A as in America, S as in Sam." "She couldn't believe somebody was using those words over the phone," says Hamilton Township, N.J., police lieutenant Michael Cane. Das was charged with one count each of disorderly conduct and harassment. Bond was set at $25,000. After Das spent five hours in jail, attorneys for his company, which has its headquarters in Atlanta, arranged to post bail. (As a condition of being interviewed, Das refused to give his company's name for fear that his arrest would cause...
...Sept. 11 investigation with greater finesse and quiet. After all, a poll shows that 67% of Americans approve of his ongoing policy of interviewing about 5,000 people, ages 18 to 33, within the Arab-American and Islamic communities who have arrived here on visas since 2000. Unable to conduct all the interviews using the FBI, the Attorney General enlisted local law enforcement to request interviews. But by asking local officials to do some of the work for him, he managed to divide the country's police communities. Some cops, scarred by accusations of racial profiling and eager to maintain...
...prevailing standards the CBS military drama JAG (Tuesdays, 8 p.m. E.T.) was about the least-cool hit show on TV. It lauded the men and women of the Judge Advocate General corps, who investigate, prosecute and defend cases affecting military conduct. The twist was--well, that there was no twist. On JAG, the government really was good, save for a few bad apples. There were no systemic conspiracies. It was made with the cooperation of the Navy and the Marines. Its heroes, Lieut. Commander Harmon (Harm) Rabb Jr. (David James Elliott) and Lieut. Colonel Sarah (Mac) MacKenzie (Catherine Bell), were...
From the Bush administration’s insistence that this is a time of war, despite the absence of a Congressional declaration, from which the power to conduct military tribunals is apparently derived to its outright abandonment of Attorney General John Ashcroft’s promise to stop racial profiling it is clear that the Bush administration is willing to distort reality to perpetuate its narrow political vision. A vision of exclusivity, corporate welfare and stifled dissent that is wholly antithetical to this nation’s spirit...