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Archives February 2004
February 29, 2004, Kim Sengupta, The Independent, Guantanamo Detainees' Evidence May Be Unusable
February 27, 2004, Nat Hentoff, Village Voice, The Rumsfeld-Bush Legal Black Hole
February 27, 2004, Mark Bryant, AP, Congress Urged to Amend Section 215
February 26, 2004, Jim Defede, Miami Herald, Threat to Liberty at FTAA Worth a Second Look
February 26, 2004, Chris Strohm, GovExec.com, Homeland Security Officials Downplay Need for Antiterrorist Center
February 26, 2004, Lornet Turnbull, Seattle Times, New Tacoma Facility to House People Targeted for Deportation
February 25, 2004, Bob Barr, Washington Times, Attitude Adjustment at TSA
February 25, 2004, Toni Locy, USA Today, Patriot Act Blurred in Public Mind
February 25, 2004, Toni Locy, USA Today, Anti-Terror Law Puts New Demands on Businesses
February 25, 2004, Alisa Soloman, Village Voice, The Ideology Police: Targeting Middle East Studies Departments, Zealots' 'Homeland Security' Creates Campus Insecurity
February 25, 2004, Sam Dillon and Diana Jean Schemo, New York Times, Union Urges Bush to Replace Education Chief Over Remark
February 25, 2004, BBC, Case Dropped Against British Whistleblower, 'I Would Do It Again'
February 24, 2004, Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!, Publishers Face Prison for Editing Articles from Iran, Iraq, Sudan, Libya, or Cuba
February 24, 2004, John Mintz, Washington Post, U.S. Charges First Two 9/11 Detainees
February 24, 2004, Brian Tanner, AP, Education Chief Calls Teachers Union a 'Terrorist' Organization
February 24, 2004, Charles Lane, Washington Post, Court Denies Review of Post-9/11 Secrecy
February 24, 2004, Jim Lobe, OneWorld.net, Pentagon Excludes Human Rights Observers from Guantanamo Trials
February 22, 2004, Guy Taylor, Washington Times, U.S. Terror Watch List Keeps Eye On All Groups
February 22, 2004, Ethan Bronner, New York Times, Civil Liberties and the War on Terror
February 20, 2004, David Stout, New York Times, Supreme Court Expands Review of 'Enemy Combatant' Rule
February 20, 2004, Tania Branigan, Steven Morris, Vikram Dodd, and Julian Borger, The Guardian, Guantanamo Britons Emerge From Their Legal Purgatory
February 20, 2004, Matthew Barakat, AP, Virginia Man Acquitted of Terrorism Link
February 20, 2004, Rick Klein, Boston Globe, Democrats to Confine Protests to Small 'Free Speech Zone'
February 20, 2004, Andrew Gumbel, Independent/UK, How Camp Delta Helped U.S. Avoid Geneva Convention
February 20, 2004, Robert King, St. Petersburg Times, Man's Life Falls Under Shadow of Terror Case
February 20, 2004, Jennifer Kursman, Arizona Daily Wildcat, Bleed American: Ashcroft's Medical Priorities Misguided
February 19, 2004, Nat Hentoff, Village Voice, Fred Korematsu v. George W. Bush: No Law Protects Them, No Court May Hear Their Pleas
February 19, 2004, Craig Aaron, In These Times, Every Breath You Take
February 19, 2004, Valerie Hoff, WXIA-TV, Debate Continues Over Patriot Act
February 19, 2004, Jeff Barnard, AP, Friends Can't Believe Ashland Man Would Finance Terrorism
February 19, 2004, John Mintz, Washington Post, U.S. to Keep Key Data on Infrastructure Secret
February 18, 2004, Editors, Asheville Citizen-Times, Patriot Act Should Be Fixed, Not Expanded, This Year
February 18, 2004, Noah Leavitt, FindLaw, John Ashcroft's Subpoena Blitz: Targeting Lawyers, Universities, Peaceful Demonstrators, Hospitals, and Patients, All With No Connection To Terrorism
February 17, 2004, AP, Federal Prosecutor Sues Ashcroft: Suit Accuses Justice Department of Mismanaging War on Terrorism
February 17, 2004, Marjorie Cohn, The Jurist, Government Withdrawal of Drake Protest Subpoenas Targeting National Lawyers Guild is Victory for Free Speech
February 17, 2004, Kim Sengupta, Independent/U.K., Anti-Terror Laws 'Mean US No Longer has Moral High Ground'
February 16, 2004, Nat Hentoff, Washington Times, Rewrite Patriot Act to Protect Freedom to Protest
February 13, 2004, Derek Richmond, The Hoya, Guantanamo Lawyers Criticize Patriot Act
February 12, 2004, Nat Hentoff, Village Voice, The Diminishing of John Ashcroft
February 12, 2004, Eric Lichtblau, New York Times, Justice Department Seeks Hospitals' Records
February 12, 2004, Thomas E. Ricks and Michelle Powell, Washington Post, U.S. To Let Padilla See Lawyer
February 12, 2004, Grant McCool, Reuters, New York Police Sued Over Anti-War Protest Arrests
February 11, 2004, Ryan J. Foley, AP, U.S. Drops Subpoenas Against University, Antiwar Activists
February 11, 2004, Editors, Nashville City Paper, Patriot Act Takes to Slopes in Drake Subpoenas
February 10, 2004, Rima Merriman, Jordan Times, Intelligence Gathering and Due Process Are at Odds in US
Students and Peace Activists in Iowa Subpoenaed
- February 9, 2004, Matthew Rothschild, the Progressive, Crackdown in Des Moines
- February 9, 2004, The Iowa Channel, 4 Iowans, Drake University Ordered to Give Activist Records
- February 7, 2004, Ryan J. Foley, AP, University Ordered to Turn Over Records on Anti-War Protesters
February 9, 2004, Kari Lyderson, AlterNet, The Civil Liberties Candidate?
February 9, 2004, UC-Davis News Service, South Asian Americans Unprepared for September 11 Fallout
February 8, 2004, Bob Lewis, AP, Intelligence Commission Chiefs Have Broad Experience
February 8, 2004, Editors, Albany Times Union, True Patriotism
February 7, 2004, Ken Wiwa, Globe and Mail, Kafakaesque Experience with U.S. Immigration
February 7, 2004, Anne Gearan, AP, New Legal Rules for Detainees: Lawyers Must Get Eavesdrop Warnings
February 6, 2004, Editors, St. Petersburg Times, A Show of Security
February 6, 2004, Jane Black, Business Week, One More Slap at a Prying Eye
February 6, 2004, Chris Hedges, New York Times, Ex-Judge v. the Government's Law-Free Zone
February 6, 2004, Jeffrey Rosen, New York Times, How to Protect America, and Your Rights
February 6, 2004, Michael Christie, Reuters, Anti-Money Laundering Industry Comes Into Its Own
February 5, 2004, Cheryl Fiandaca, CBS News, Are You on Uncle Sam's No-Fly List?
February 5, 2004, Jeff Eckhoff and Mark Siebert, Des Moines Register, Des Moines Activists Ordered to Testify in U.S. Court
February 5, 2004, Michelle Garcia, Washington Post, N.Y. City Council Passes Anti-Patriot Act Measure
February 5, 2004, Benjamin Shepard, CounterPunch, Turning NYC into a Patriot Act Free Zone
February 5, 2004, Jim Lobe, OneWorld.net, New York City Wants Easing of Patriot Act
February 4, 2004, Haider Rizvi, The Final Call, Bush Presses for Stepped Up Internet Surveillance
February 4, 2004, Nancy Talanian, CommonDreams.org, USA Patriot Act: What the Justice Department Inspector General's Report Doesn't Tell Us
February 4, 2004, Betsy Barnum, CommonDreams.org, Outbreak of Local Democracy Continues
February 3, 2004, John Lettice, The Register, Got a Ticket? Get a Record. EU-US Handover Deal Leaks
February 2, 2004, Jeff Milchen and Jeffrey Kaplan, AlterNet, What Color is Your Escape Parachute?
February 1, 2004, Orange County Register, Charles V. Pena, How to Win the War on Terrorism
February 2004, Matthew Rothschild, The Progressive, Protester=Criminal?