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...genuine or significant harm to national defense or foreign relations is at stake. Danielle Brian, executive director of the non-partisan watchdog Project on Government Oversight, called the state secrets privilege an executive branch abuse that really needed to be curtailed, and Sen. Patrick Leahy of Vermont, a liberal Democrat, said he was pleased with the Administration's move. But Michael Macleod-Ball, acting director of the American Civil Liberties Unions Washington legislative office, was more cautious, saying that President Obama had essentially mirrored President Bush's policy until Holder's announcement. "We're hopeful that this will change their...
...Democrats' left flank, meanwhile, has begun agitating for major changes to the Patriot Act. On Tuesday, New York Rep. Jerrold Nadler, a Democrat, said Congress should not miss the opportunity to review the act in its entirety. Several liberal Senate Democrats such as Sen. Russ Feingold of Wisconsin and Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois, along with Independent Bernie Sanders of Vermont, have proposed a bill known as the Justice Act, which would curb many of the sweeping powers of the Patriot Act. The bill would reauthorize the expiring Patriot Act provisions, but would add new limits: roving wiretaps could...
...divided by political parties today, and yet there is definitely division. It's not unusual to run across liberals who say there's no way Jesus would ever be a Republican, or conservatives who preach that it's not possible to be both a good Christian and a Democrat. That's dreadful. It's so much bigger than politics. Jesus would have seen the Republican and Democratic parties like the money changers in the temple. They just didn't get it. Now, I'm going to vote for a pro-life candidate if given the choice. But that has nothing...
Some see this as a smart move. Last week, Senate majority leader Harry Reid, a Democrat from Nevada, sent a letter to Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner urging him to consider giving TARP funds to more small banks, even those that might fail without government assistance. "Comparatively modest assistance from the government now could make a significant difference to these banks, their customers, and their communities, as well as help ensure the fledgling recovery we are seeing in our economy continues," wrote Reid...
Talk like a communist, walk like a democrat. That has been the paradoxical strategy pursued by Latin America's new radical left - at least until now. Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez will gush effusively in the presence of Fidel Castro one moment, then just as earnestly he'll remind the world that he submits to the kind of free elections and free speech that Castro and his brother, Cuban President Raúl Castro, still forbid...