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...dodgy response at best, but one invested with a larger truth. For too many liberals, all secret intelligence activities are "fruit," and bitter fruit at that. The government is presumed guilty of illegal electronic eavesdropping until proven innocent. This sort of civil-liberties fetishism is a hangover from the Vietnam era, when the Nixon Administration wildly exceeded all bounds of legality-spying on antiwar protesters and civil rights leaders...
...view this really as fine-tuning,? says Tim Ransdell, executive director of the California Institute for Federal Policy Research, a nonprofit based in Washington, D.C. ?This was risk-based all along. Maybe now it?s a little more risk-based, maybe not.? Now, as always, the formula is a secret. We just know what Chertoff told us: that it takes into account the threats and vulnerabilities facing a given city, in addition to the consequences of a possible attack. We have no idea why Phoenix and Las Vegas are now on probation and could lose funding altogether-while Milwaukee...
...WHERE THINGS STAND The Administration has neither confirmed nor denied the existence of secret prisons, called "black sites" in classified documents, according to the Post. Fingered by Human Rights Watch as likely hosts, E.U. member Poland and aspiring member Romania denied involvement. The Post said sites in Thailand and Cuba were shut down before its report appeared. The possibility of CIA-run prisons within Europe raised a furor on the Continent, and E.U. leaders have suggested participating countries could face sanctions...
...WHERE THINGS STAND In the wake of the Post article on secret prisons, most European governments have said their airspace is off limits to CIA flights carrying prisoners to countries practicing torture. A judge in Italy last year ordered 13 CIA operatives arrested after prosectors there said the CIA seized Osama Moustafa Hassan Nasr, an Egyptian imam, in Milan and sent him to Egypt, where he claims he was tortured. Although President Bush has said the U.S. seeks assurances that suspects sent abroad won't be tortured, CIA Director Porter Goss has acknowledged that "there's only so much...
...demand an individual’s borrowing history from the library, as well as library Internet and e-mail records, if these records are relevant to an ongoing terrorism or intelligence investigation. Requests for personal borrowing records must be authorized by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, whose proceedings are secret. Internet and e-mail records, on the other hand, can be obtained with a National Security Letter (NSL) authorized by a senior FBI official. Criticism of these measures has focused on the lack of regular judicial review over these information requests and the “gag rule?...