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Because they required the President to plainly bypass an act of Congress, the no-warrant wiretaps may be the sharpest expression yet of the Administration's willingness to expand the scope of Executive power. When the NSA was established, in 1952, there were few legal limits on its power to spy within the U.S. Then came the intelligence-gathering abuses of the Nixon years, when the NSA as well as the FBI were used by the White House to spy on civil rights and anti-Vietnam War activists. In 1978 Congress passed the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), which required...
...agency has continued in many cases to apply for them. Last year it sought 1,754.) But the court has been subjecting the applications to closer examination. It made what the Justice Department calls "substantive modifications" to 94 of last year's requests--for example, reducing the scope, timing or targets in the original application...
More than you know, your reading experience with this magazine is shaped by someone you seldom meet in these pages: Time Inc.'s editor-in-chief. His assignment is stunning in scope: guiding 154 magazines read by 173 million people around the globe. It is one of the great jobs in journalism, all the more storied because over the past 83 years it has changed hands fewer times than the papacy. So you can understand why I'm excited to tell you that one of those rare transitions is happening...
...maximum effect, this should be seen on a gigantic movie screen--the visual scope is that grand, the details that rich. But George Lucas' dark and honorable wrap-up to his space odyssey will look just fine on the 45-in. screen in your home-entertainment center. The DVD has a starship-load of extras to answer every question a viewer could have, except How come Padmé dies here, when in the original Star Wars trilogy Princess Leia remembers her mother...
...tests administered by a large pharmaceutical company, don't seem to mind killing it off. A British diplomat (super-pensive Ralph Fiennes) learns that his crusading bride (Rachel Weisz) has been killed on a trip into the bush, and goes searching for keys to her murder. Meirelles expands the scope of the John Le Carr? source novel out of the European compound and into Kenyan villages and plains. This Brazilian director, who also found a place on the all-TIME 100 movies (City of God), likes to probe and prod a subject from a dozen oblique angles. The result...