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...advisory panel will also recommend that the President name a bipartisan civil liberties oversight board - drawing members from across the political spectrum, academia and the private sector - to assess the impact on civil liberties of anti-terror measures such as the Patriot Act and proposals to strengthen it. The report suggests that greater oversight is required for any use of U.S. spy satellites on targets inside the United States, and that legislation may be required to set the rules. Since September 11, the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency's spy satellites have been increasingly pointed inside U.S. borders in support...
...forever fixated, turned off three and a half million liberals, who flocked to Ralph Nader and handed the election to Bush. Are many on the left going to bother to schlep to the polls to vote for a Democrat who kowtowed to the President on tax cuts, the Patriot Act and the invasion of Iraq? Not bloody likely, mate...
Harvard will also have to contend with the Raiders excellent perimeter shooters. Colgate guards Alvin Reed, Jon Simon and Mark Linebaugh anchor a squad that shoots 38 percent from three-point range. Simon and Reed are second and fourth in the Patriot League in three-point shooting percentage, respectively. Such precision from behind the arc could spell trouble for the Crimson, as Harvard ranks dead last in defending the three, allowing opponents to hit at a 43 percent clip...
...reactive process,” spurred by clashes with HSI. On Nov. 3, HIPJ and the Society of Arab Students (SAS) hosted Amer Jubran—a local activist then facing deportation to Jordan—in a Science Center auditorium, where he delivered a speech decrying the USA Patriot Act. Jubran, who refuses to condemn Palestinian suicide bombings against Jewish targets, provoked protests from pro-Israel groups. HSI members emphasized that their objection was to Jubran’s appearance, not HIPJ’s civil libertarian agenda. One HSI sign read, “Patriot Act, No; Support...
...watch, Bush pushed through two more. Faced with opposition and criticism, Bush just raises the ante. His $87 billion Iraq-Afghanistan package brought a gulp from even his staunchest supporters on Capitol Hill. And when polls showed Americans were increasingly disturbed about some of the provisions in the Patriot Act, which they viewed as a dangerous subversion of civil liberties, he sent John Ashcroft on the road to defend it and push for expanding...