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Archives - January 2004

January 30, 2004, Bruce Schneier, ZDNET, Total Surveillance Becoming Reality

January 30, 2004, Bill Nemitz, Portland Press Herald, Homeland Security? Search for Illegal Aliens Alienates City

January 30, 2004, Dan Eggen, Washington Post, Attorney General Defends Patriot Act

January 30, 2004, Declan McCullagh, CNET, Surveillance Powers Should Stand, U.S. Officials Say

January 29, 2004, Gina Holland, AP, Justice Warns Against Civil Rights Apathy

January 29, 2004, Curt Anderson, AP, Ashcroft: Bush Would Veto Bill Scaling Back Patriot Act (Also see Ashcroft's letter to Orrin Hatch, Chair, Committee on the Judiciary (PDF))

January 29, 2004, Jenny Falcon, Voice of America, USA Patriot Act Author Supports Some Modifications of Controversial Law

January 29, 2004, John A. Russo, San Francisco Chronicle, Patriot Act: Forgoing Liberty for Safety?

January 27, 2004, Rima Merriman, Jordan Times, Impact of U.S. Security Measures on Foreign Students

January 27, 2004, Dan Eggen Washington Post, 9/11 Panel Faults U.S. for Letting Hijackers In

January 27, 2004, Editors, New York Times, The Politics of Security

January 27, 2004, Matthew Rothschild, The Progressive, Blowing the Whistle on the Patriot Act

January 27, 2004, Eric Lichtblau, New York Times, Judge Voids Part of Antiterror Act

January 25, 2004, Editors, Knoville News-Sentinel, 'First Amendment Zones' Restrict Free Speech

January 24, 2004, Editors, St. Petersburg Times, MATRIX Repositioned

January 23, 2004, Agence France Presse, Canadian Sues U.S. for Sending Him to Syria for Torture

January 23, 2004, David Stout, New York Times, Bush Tells Mayors He Will Press for Urban Security Funds

January 22, 2004, Al Jazerra.net, U.S. Council Defies Bush Over Patriot Act

January 22, 2004, Eric Lichtblau, New York Times, Lawmakers Not Rushing to Take Up Terrorism Act

January 21, 2004, Shaun Waterman, UPI, Patriot Act Renewal a 'Can of Worms'

January 21, 2004, Nina Bernstein, New York Times, Trip Home Becaomes Kafkaesque Ordeal

January 21, 2004, Editors, Washington Post, Screening Terrorists

January 21, 2004, Chris Strohm, GovExec.com, September 11 Commission Faces Fight Over Deadline Extension

January 21, 2004, Haider Rizvi, Inter Press Service, Bush Pushes Plan to Permit Internet Surveillance

January 20, 2004, Declan McCullagh, CNET News, Bush Wants Patriot Act Renewed

January 20, 2004, Thanassis Cambanis, Boston Globe, Resistance to Patriot Act Gaining Ground

January 19, 2004, Geov Parrish, WorkingforChange.com, Martin Luther King: Terrorist?

January 19, 2004, Kari Lydersen, AlterNet, Civil Liberties: The 2004 Forecast

January 19, 2004, AP, Terror Financing Case in Florida Puts Patriot Act to the Test

January 18, 2004, Sara Kehaulani Goo, Washington Post, Northwest Gave U.S. Data on Passengers

January 17, 2004, Anne Gearan, AP, White House Asks Supreme Court for Ruling on Padilla

January 17-18, 2004, Marjorie Cohn, CounterPunch, The Guantanaom Concentration Camp, Wrong Treatment in the Wrong Place

January 16, 2004, Editors, The Gleaner, Detainees: All Have Right to Fair Trial

January 16, 2004, Sue Pleming, Reuters, U.S. Still Holds Child Detainees at Guantanamo

January 12-16, 2004, Supreme Court Refuses to Hear Case on Secrecy of 9-11 Detainees:

January 15, 2004, BBC News, Red Cross to Renew Guantanamo Call

January 15, 2004, Dan Eggem Washington Post, Military Tribunals May Try 9/11 Suspects

January 14, 2004, Editors, The New York Times, Keeping Detentions Secret

January 14, 2004, Kurt Nimmo, CounterPunch, Bush and the Supreme Court, Amputating the Bill of Rights

January 12, 2004, Pam Zubeck, The Gazette, Wedding Bells or Deportation Cells: Marriage Condition Absurd, Some Say

January 12, 2004, Sara Kehaulani Goo, Washington Post, U.S. to Push Airlines for Passenger Records

January 11, 2004, Louise Christian, The Guardian, Guantanamo Bay: A Global Experiment in Inhumanity

January 10, 2004, David G. Savage, L.A. Times, Justices to Rule on Rights of Terror Suspects; High Court Case Will Test Bush's Power to Jail Without Charges

January 9, 2004, Steve Lilienthal, The Washington Dispatch, Sleeping Better In Seattle: Passing The SAFE Act Resolution

January 9, 2004, Jordan Smith, The Austin Chronicle, Patriot II, Piece by Piece

January 8, 2004, Naomi Klein, The Nation, The Year of the Fake

January 8, 2004, Eric Lichtblau, New York Times, US Reasserts Right to Declare Citizens to be Enemy Combatants

January 7, 2003, Bill Berkowitz, WorkingforChange.com, America's Homegrown Terrorists

January 7, 2004, CNN, U.S. Tells Brazil to Change Security Program (Scroll down to bottom of page)

January 7, 2004, Scott Gold, Los Angeles Times, Case Yields Chilling Signs of Domestic Terror Plot

January 7, 2004, Chris Strohm, GovExec.com, Inaccurate Databanks Pose Challenge for New Visitor Tracking System

January 7, 2004, Arie Farnam, Christian Science Monitor, From Afar, Americans Try to Steer Presidential Election

January 7, 2004, Rod Smith, Gaming Wire, Sources: FBI Gathered Visitor Information Only in Las Vegas

January 7, 2004, Kareem Fahim, Village Voice, Britain's Dark Places: The Other Guantanamos

January 6, 2004, Earl Ofari Hutchinson, Bush's Dubious Scorecard on Terrorist Prosecutions

January 6, 2004, Kim Zetter, Wired, Bush Grabs New Power for FBI

January 2004, Jaime Adame, Gotham Gazette, Civil Liberties and Police Surveillance

January-February 2004, Rob Gurwitt, Mother Jones, Defender of the Free World

January 5, 2004, William New, National Journal's Technology Daily, Pentagon Failed to Study Privacy Issues in Data-Mining Effort, IG Says

January 5, 2004, Joanne Mariner, FindLaw, Interrogation, Torture, The Constitution, and the Courts

January 5, 2004, Editors, The Washington Post, Silence on the Hill . . .

January 5, 2004, AP, U.S. Begins Tracking Foreign Arrivals

January 5, 2004, Audrey Hudson, The Washington Times, Cities in Revolt Over Patriot Act

January 4, 2004, James Bovard, San Francisco Chronicle, Quarantining Dissent: How the Secret Service Protects Bush from Free Speech

January 4, 2004, Jimmy Breslin, Newsday, The New American System of Justice

January 4, 2004, Kenneth Roth, L.A. Times, In Bush's America, Rules of War Trump Civil Law

January 4, 2004, Christopher Pyle, San Francisco Chronicle, Torture by Proxy: How Immigration Threw a Traveler to the Woods

January 4, 2004, Editors, The Washington Post, Too Much Power

January 3-4, 2004, Kurt Nimmo, CounterPunch, Watch Out for Organic Farmers! Ashcroft Goes After the Left

January 3-4, 2004, Mike Whitney, CounterPunch, Constitution in the Crosshairs

January 2, 2004, Frank Oliveri, Gannett News Service, Police Database Called Intrusive by Rights Group