May 29, 2006
by Mark Anderson Antiwar.com On Feb. 6, 2006, U.S.
Attorney General Alberto Gonzales launched a convoluted attack on the Fourth Amendment before the Senate Judiciary Committee. This assault on the meaning of the Fourth Amendment is, in my estimation, the biggest leap forward for totalitarianism in this country. The following is an excerpt from Alberto Gonzales' Fourth Amendment catechism (emphasis mine): |
By DAVID JOHNSTON and CARL HULSE
The New York Times May 27, 2006 WASHINGTON - Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales, the F.B.I. director, Robert S. Mueller III, and senior officials and career prosecutors at the Justice Department told associates this week that they were prepared to quit if the White House directed them to relinquish evidence seized in a bitterly disputed search of a House member's office, government officials said Friday.
Mr. Gonzales was joined in raising the possibility of resignation by the deputy attorney general, Paul J. McNulty, the officials said. Mr. Gonzales and Mr. McNulty told associates that they had an obligation to protect evidence in a criminal case and would be unwilling to carry out any White House order to return the material to Congress. The potential showdown was averted Thursday when President Bush ordered the evidence to be sealed for 45 days to give Congress and the Justice Department a chance to work out a deal. |
By Akiva Eldar10:06 25/05/2006
Mishael Cheshin did Supreme Court President Justice Aharon Barak a favor by presenting his colleague as someone for whom the rights of Arabs precede the security of Jews. A short daytrip through Jerusalem, along the concrete walls that are a blight on the stone walls of the Old City, can teach the retired justice a thing or two about security and human rights under occupation.
Let him observe the small girls on their way to school, squeezing through the still unfilled cracks in the wall, and ask himself if this is what a state that promotes human rights looks like. He should also take a good look at the young boys who throw their schoolbags over the wall and then jump over themselves, and ask himself how much the wall, which he and Barak approved, actually contributes to the security of the citizens of Israel. |
MSNBC
May 29, 2006 Summary: President Bush, visiting America's most hallowed military burial ground to "honor this place where valor sleeps," said Monday the nation must persevere in the war against terrorists for the sake of those have already given their lives in this cause.
At the White House, Bush signed the Respect for America's Fallen Heroes Act," passed by Congress largely in response to the activities of a Kansas church group that has staged protests at military funerals around the country, claiming the deaths symbolized God's anger at U.S. tolerance of homosexuals. The new law bars protests within 300 feet of the entrance of a national cemetery and within 150 feet of a road into the cemetery. This restriction applies an hour before until an hour after a funeral. Those violating the act would face up to a $100,000 fine and up to a year in prison. |
By Kevin Krolicki
Reuters May 27, 2006 DETROIT - The U.S. government has asked a pair of federal judges to dismiss legal challenges to the Bush administration's controversial domestic eavesdropping program, arguing any court action in the cases would jeopardize secrets in the ongoing "war on terror."
Civil rights activists, who argue the National Security Agency's wiretapping violates the rights of U.S. citizens, said the Bush administration's position threatened Constitutional checks on the power of the presidency. |
By Declan McCullagh
CNET News.com May 26, 2006 Lawyers for AT&T accidentally released sensitive information while defending a lawsuit that accuses the company of facilitating a government wiretapping program, CNET News.com has learned.
AT&T's attorneys this week filed a 25-page legal brief striped with thick black lines that were intended to obscure portions of three pages and render them unreadable. But the obscured text nevertheless can be copied and pasted inside some PDF readers, including Preview under Apple Computer's OS X and the xpdf utility used with X11. |
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