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...said an anonymous person, claiming to be a member of the Revolutionary Struggle terror group, made at least two telephone calls to a local security company to assume responsibility for attack that rocked the Greek capital at 5:58 local time...
...about George W. Bush's use of Presidential power and what they claimed was Republican complicity in eroding both civil liberties and the authority of Congress. When the G.O.P. pushed through a bill granting Bush the ability to suspend the ancient right of habeas corpus for terror suspects, the man who would become the Democratic Senate majority leader after the election, Harry Reid, said, "The framers of our Constitution understood the need for checks and balances, but this bill discards them." Across the country Democratic candidates for both chambers of Congress painted their opponents as rubber stamps for Bush...
...believe he is eroding American civil liberties will be even more downcast in coming weeks. Yesterday at a press briefing in the Senate Hart office building, American Civil Liberties Union Executive Director Anthony Romero said that while Democrats had not been willing to obstruct Bush's war on terror initiatives before the November elections, he hoped the Democratic rout might have changed the political calculation. "We hope that the Democrats have found their spines again," he said...
...Feingold, and New Hampshire conservative John Sununu today will introduce a bill that would require executive branch agencies regularly to report on data mining efforts. On the record, Harry Reid's office is nominally supportive of these efforts. "The new Congress will review all aspects of the war on terror to see what improvements are needed," says Reid spokesman, Jim Manley...
...According to Bilmes, the nation’s costs of fulfilling its obligations to these veterans could run between 300 and 700 billion dollars over the next four decades.Bilmes said the problem can be explained statistically. While the United States recently counted its 3000th fatality in the war on terror, nearly 16 times that many have suffered non-mortal wounds. By contrast, the ratio of those wounded to those killed during the Vietnam War was 2.6:1, and the two World Wars saw less than two men wounded for every fatality. The statistical swing, according to Bilmes, can be attributed...