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Before the Patriot Act, authorities could examine library records only after proving in open court that there was probable cause to suspect that a crime had been committed. The Patriot Act gave the government wider leeway by expanding the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), legislation that created secret courts to review applications for domestic wiretaps and searches in the name of national security. Now the government needs merely to convince a FISA court that looking at book-borrowing histories or library Internet usage is relevant to an ongoing terrorist investigation, whether or not a crime has been committed...
...those seeking a wider audience, however, the most accessible form of public communication is graffiti. The new political parties and organizations that appear every day announce their birth and proclaim their intentions on blank walls...
...sent in by the Pentagon as the fighting died down initially focused on the 150 "hottest" suspected WMD sites identified by U.S. intelligence before the war - and that searches of the first 90 sites on that list had proved fruitless. That has reportedly prompted a switch to a far wider search in the hope of turning up unexpected evidence, and a greater effort to track down and interrogate individuals who may have been involved in such programs. The senior Baathist officials currently being interrogated by coalition officers are uniformly denying that the regime had weapons of mass destruction before...
...with the help of intelligence gleaned from interrogations. Meanwhile, President Bush noted last week, "One thing is for certain: Saddam Hussein no longer threatens America with weapons of mass destruction." The successful overthrow of a barbarous dictator may be enough for the U.S. electorate. But in much of the wider world, the jury may stay out until evidence is produced affirming the existence of such a threat...
...Like Arafat, Abbas has started out trying to negotiate with Hamas and Islamic Jihad in the hope of persuading them that ending terror attacks is in the wider Palestinian national interest. Having a considerably weaker political base than Arafat, Abbas is likely to be acutely aware that the path of confrontation with those groups could spark a Palestinian civil war from which the Palestinian Authority emerges even weaker. Instead, he seeks to maintain Palestinian unity on the basis of a common understanding to pursue the "roadmap" - an approach that has Israeli security chiefs warning that Abbas has no intention...