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...President Cheney have pushed to reclaim executive prerogative, and the 9/11 attacks gave them a huge opportunity to do so. But Bush has found himself on the defensive over the report in Friday's New York Times that since 2002, he has secretly authorized the National Security Agency to eavesdrop on callers inside the United States who are suspected of terrorist activity, without first obtaining the court-approved warrants required by law for domestic spying. The White House was caught flat-footed by the revelation, and has vigorously defended the program over the past three days. "As President and Commander...
...expire at the end of the month and make other parts permanent, civil-liberty-minded opponents of the bill brought it down Friday by sustaining a filibuster. Revelations in Friday's New York Times that the White House had secretly authorized the National Security Agency to eavesdrop on suspected terrorists within the United States since 9/11 without warrants only stiffened opponents' resolve and helped attract new allies. Democrat Charles Schumer, for instance, went to bed Thursday undecided, he said, but the Times article "greatly influenced my vote" to maintain the filibuster...
...divulge a confidence and only ask people questions if it can't be avoided." Black Harvest was testimony to their success - in a cloistered society which few outsiders penetrated, these two filmmakers, laden with modern ways and equipment, established themselves in the Nebilyer, and then vanished into it to eavesdrop on the tribe's world...
British air-traffic-control transmissions have been interrupted by wails from a baby monitor, a gadget that can also inadvertently eavesdrop on phone calls...
...Mayor Edward Koch and Poet Allen Ginsberg hummed a mantra, and a wall-to-wall reception in the vast Egyptian wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Milling around the reconstructed Temple of Dendur, star watchers could search for the Santa Claus figure of Canadian Novelist Robertson Davies and eavesdrop on the exquisite ironies of Indian-born Novelist Salman Rushdie. Beside the reflecting pool, the gifted throng could contemplate the imaginations of two great states: a perfect theocracy that maintained its inflexible slave system even in the afterlife, and a permanently unfinished republic whose contentious factions offer possibilities still...