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Pentagon Monitored Student Groups’ E-mail

Jul 6, 2006
The Department of Defense monitored e-mails from college students who were planning protests against the Iraq war and against the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy. The Pentagon apparently started digging after receiving tips through a website used for soliciting anti-terror tips from civilians and military personnel. (Link - reg req'd)
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Did Bush & Co. ‘Floridize’ Mexico’s Voter Rolls?

Jul 6, 2006
The FBI obtained Mexico's voter lists via the same contractor that Florida Gov Jeb Bush used to scrub alleged felons from the voter rolls The FBI supposedly obtained the lists as part of counter-terror operations, but there's reason to suspect those lists will end up helping President Bush's favored candidate into office in Mexico (more) .

Memo to Pundits and Pols: No More Holocaust Comparisons

Jul 6, 2006
That's the advice of a Washington Post reporter, who says that no one should ever compare anything to the Nazis, Hitler or the Holocaust Even if you're talking, as Sen Dick Durbin recently was, about the prisoner mistreatment scandal at Gitmo, it will always backfire Other examples: FreeRepubliccom and Accuracy in Media pull the "Anne Frank card" on the NY Times CNN Host Glenn Beck uses a Holocaust comparison for the N Times, too .