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In Day Two, Alito Says Even Wartime Presidents Are Not Above the Law

Staff / Truthdig Jan 10, 2006 Ted Kennedy counters: "Time and again, even in routine matters involving average Americans, you give enormous, almost total deference to the exercise of governmental powers." | story Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Poll: Most Want Court OK For Gov’t Wiretaps

Staff / Truthdig Jan 9, 2006 Fifty-six percent says government should get warrants to eavesdrop on U.S.-international calls | more Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

All Your Phone Call Records are for Sale, Cheap

Staff / Truthdig Jan 9, 2006 Anyone can buy a list of your incoming and outgoing calls, cellphone or hard-line, for $110. Congress knows, shrugs | more Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Report Rebuts Bush on Warrantless Wiretaps

Staff / Truthdig Jan 9, 2006 Congressional research arm says spy program conflicts with existing law, hinges on weak arguments | more Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Surveillance Court To Quiz Bush Officials Over Spy Program

Staff / Truthdig Jan 5, 2006 Judges will question Dept. of Justice, others, on legality of warrantless wiretaps | more Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Bush Could Bypass Torture Ban

Staff / Truthdig Jan 5, 2006 After Bush signed the bill outlawing detainee torture, he "quietly reserved the right to bypass the law," acccording to the Boston Globe. more Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

NSA Whistleblower to Testify

Staff / Truthdig Jan 3, 2006 A former NSA agent tells Democracy Now! that he will testify to Congress about Bush's "unlawful and unconstitutional" spy program. Story. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Bush Tries to Clarify Apparently Misleading Remarks About Wiretaps

Staff / Truthdig Jan 2, 2006 The president attempts to explain how his 2004 claim that "a wiretap requires court orders" squares with his warrantless surveillance program. Times reporter Eric Licthblau calls Bush's comments "at odds" with those of his senior aides. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Ashcroft’s Deputy Opposed Parts of Spy Program

Staff / Truthdig Jan 2, 2006 Two of Bush's most senior advisors made an emergency visit in 2004 to a hospitalized John Ashcroft to get him to override his deputy and sign off on a continued warrantless domestic surveillance program. Read the story Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

How Do the Iraqis Treat Their Prisoners?

Staff / Truthdig Jan 2, 2006 A maverick US Army major finds that some of his Iraqi counterparts have fewer scruples about going "over the line" while interrogating suspected insurgents U News & World Report has the story . Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

The Wonderful World of Outsourced Torture

Robert Scheer / Truthdig Dec 14, 2005 The more we learn of the Bush administration's pervasive outsourcing of torture, the more sensible it seems as a policy. Evidently, our intelligence people, tainted as they are by the squeamish morality of Western civilization, are just not fully up to the task of getting prisoners to tell us what the administration wants us to hear. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )