By LESLIE MILLER
Associated Press Thu Oct 5, 2006 WASHINGTON - President Bush, again defying Congress, says he has the power to edit the Homeland Security Department's reports about whether it obeys privacy rules while handling background checks, ID cards and watchlists.
In the law Bush signed Wednesday, Congress stated no one but the privacy officer could alter, delay or prohibit the mandatory annual report on Homeland Security department activities that affect privacy, including complaints. But Bush, in a signing statement attached to the agency's 2007 spending bill, said he will interpret that section "in a manner consistent with the President's constitutional authority to supervise the unitary executive branch." |
Boston.com
05 Oct 2006 Bush signings called effort to expand power --Report sees broad strategy
President Bush's frequent use of signing statements to assert that he has the power to disobey newly enacted laws is "an integral part" of his "comprehensive strategy to strengthen and expand executive power" at the expense of the legislative branch, according to a report by the non partisan Congressional Research Service... Last week, Bush signed the 2007 military budget bill, but then issued a statement challenging 16 of its provisions. The bill bars the Pentagon from using any intelligence that was collected illegally, including information about Americans that was gathered in violation of the Fourth Amendment's protections against unreasonable government surveillance. |
CBS News
Oct. 5, 2006 60 Minutes, in collaboration with the National Security News Service, has obtained the secret list used to screen airline passengers for terrorists and discovered it includes names of people not likely to cause terror, including the president of Bolivia, people who are dead and names so common, they are shared by thousands of innocent fliers.
Steve Kroft's investigation, in which an ex-FBI agent who worked on its al Qaeda task force says the list of 44,000 names is ineffective, will be broadcast this Sunday, Oct. 8, at 7 p.m. ET/PT. |
6 October 2006
BRUSSELS - The US and the European Union have struck a new deal for sharing transatlantic airline passenger data.
The new interim agreement replaces a 2004 deal ruled illegal for technical reasons by the European Court of Justice (ECJ) in May. The agreement followed a transatlantic video conference lasting at least seven hours. EU justice ministers will meet later on Friday to discuss and back the deal. |
Published: Thursday, October 05, 2006
Bylined to: Jess Hunter-Bowman |
Published: Wednesday, October 04, 2006
Bylined to: Bob Chapman This past Saturday in Venezuela, it was announced that a sniper with a long-range rifle and a motorcycle to escape was captured ... his target was President Hugo Chavez Frias.
The shooting was to occur as he exited a helicopter on a recent trip in June to western Venezuela in the region of Zulia, where his main rival for election, Governor Manuel Rosales, holds forth. |
Times of India
5 Oct, 2006 |
AP
Thu Oct 5, 2006 MADISON, Wis. - A state lawmaker, worried about a recent string of deadly school shootings, suggested arming teachers, principals and other school personnel as a safety measure and a deterrent.
It might not be politically correct, but it has worked effectively in other countries, Republican Rep. Frank Lasee said Wednesday. "To make our schools safe for our students to learn, all options should be on the table," he said. "Israel and Thailand have well-trained teachers carrying weapons and keeping their children safe from harm. It can work in Wisconsin." |
AP
Oct 05, 2006 |
www.chinaview.cn 2006-10-06 03:37:29
WASHINGTON, Oct. 5 (Xinhua) -- The United States said on Thursday that its warnings to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) against conducting a nuclear weapons test were "not a lethal threat."
"It's important that North Korea not develop and try to deploy nuclear weapons. That's enormously important," White House spokesman Tony Snow told reporters. |
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