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...arrest of accused "dirty bomber" Jose Padilla, a.k.a. Abdullah al-Mujahir, has raised two important questions about the future of the war on terror. First, it has illuminated the specter of the "insider" terrorist - someone who by virtue of his U.S. citizenship can move freely across the United States, plotting terrorist acts without ever once raising a red flag, raising the possibility that that detection is about to get a lot more difficult. Second, Padilla's arrest and subsequent detention sparked considerable concern - as well as a vocal debate - over the fate of civil liberties in a time...
...Padilla's lawyer, Donna Newman, questions the government's commitment to that latter requirement - and there are others who share her doubts, including lawmakers like Senators John McCain and Arlen Specter, who urged Congress to convene congressional hearings...
Students who were not part of an ROTC program faced the specter of the draft. But while students who joined the reserves received draft exemptions until they earned their degrees, that option now meant a prolonged term of service after graduation...
...descriptions of named suspects, "one of the most explosive documents I've seen in eight years." The memo, on which the Senate Intelligence Committee was briefed last November, has now become the focus of a huge political row in Washington. Members of the Senate Judiciary Committee--including Republican Arlen Specter, who had an angry exchange over the memo with FBI Director Robert Mueller on Saturday--are desperate to see it, and may yet subpoena it. "The fact that the Phoenix memo died on somebody's desk takes your breath away," says Senator Richard Durbin, a Democratic committee member from Illinois...
When FBI agent Kenneth Williams wrote a memo last July warning that Osama bin Laden's foot soldiers might be training in American flight schools, no one listened. Now his memo is the hottest thing in Washington. On Saturday Arlen Specter, a veteran Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, called FBI director Robert Mueller and urged him to turn over the memo. When Mueller refused, Specter snapped, "Congress gave you a 10-year term and expects a response from you," according to a reliable account. "The people are entitled to an explanation." Specter then called committee chairman Patrick Leahy...