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Oct 31, 2007, Richard B. Schmitt, Los Angeles Times, Mukasey's reply draws more fire

Oct 31, 2007, Richard Weitz, World Politics Review, U.S. Military Counterintelligence Activities Raise Privacy Concerns

Oct 31, 2007, Ari Melber, Huffington Post, Immunity Watch: Senate Considers Illegal Spying Today

Oct 31, 2007, Nick Juliano, Raw Story, Administration official says 'every nugget' of surveillance info helps terrorists

Oct 31, 2007, Tariq Ramadan, Christian Science Monitor, The US Blacklisted Me. Let’s Talk.

Oct 31, 2007, Dan Eggen and Paul Kane, Washington Post, Senate to Hold Mukasey Confirmation Vote Tuesday

Oct 31, 2007, Common Dreams, ACLU Warns Congress Not to Legalize Warrantless Wiretapping

Oct 30, 2007, Edith M.Lederer, Associated Press, UN Expert Seeks Guantanamo Release

Oct 30, 2007, AlterNet, Rumsfeld Flees France, Fearing Arrest

Oct 30, 2007, Robert D'Andrea, Oregon Daily Emerald (University of Oregon, Eugene), Mayfield lawyer will speak about Patriot Act ruling, civil liberties, and war on terror

Oct 30, 2007, Bruce Fein, Washington Times, Restoring habeas corpus

Oct 30, 2007, Canadian Press, UN rights expert calls on United States to try or release enemy combatants

Oct 29, 2007, Linda Young, All Headline News, Former Guantanamo Prosecutor Alleges Political Interference In Prosecutions There

Oct 29, 2007, Fernanda Santos, New York Times, Real ID That Spitzer Now Embraces Has Been Widely Criticized

Oct 29, 2007, Studs Terkel, New York Times, The Wiretap This Time

Oct 29, 2007, CNN, Clarify position on torture, senators urge attorney general nominee

Oct 29, 2007, Matthew Waxman, Washington Post, The Smart Way to Shut Gitmo Down

Oct 29, 2007, Editorial, Miami Herald, Troubling questions for Judge Mukasey

Oct 28, 2007, Peter Urban, Connecticut Post, Dodd opposition to Bush earns points

Oct 28, 2007, Dr. J. Wesley Boyd, Boston Globe, Doctors, Torture, and the War

Oct 28, 2007, Scott Shane, New York Times, Spies Do a Huge Volume of Work in Invisible Ink

Oct 28, 2007, Lawrence Downes, New York Times, What Part of 'Illegal' Don’t You Understand?

Oct 28, 2007, Associated Press, N.Y. Will Offer Secure Driver's Licenses to Citizens

Oct 28, 2007, François Furstenberg, International Herald Tribune, Bush's Dangerous Liaisons

Oct 27, 2007, Leonard Doyle, The Independent (UK), Guantanamo Military Lawyer Breaks Ranks to Condemn 'Unconscionable' Detention

Oct 27, 2007, Craig Whitlock, Washington Post, From CIA Jails, Inmates Fade Into Obscurity

Oct 27, 2007, Mitch McConnell, National Review, Renew Patriot Act, FISA

Oct 27, 2007, Associated Press, Mukasey elaborates on wiretapping

Oct 27, 2007, Philip Shenon, New York Times, Denounce Waterboarding, Democrats Tell Nominee

Oct 27, 2007, Editorial, Washington Post, Progress on Surveillance

Oct 26, 2007, Scott Shane, New York Times, Panel to See Papers on Agency’s Eavesdropping

Oct 26, 2007, James Rowley, Bloomberg Wire Service, Bush to let more senators see surveillance memos

Oct 26, 2007, Clive Stafford Smith, Common Dreams, The Case of the Contraband Underpants

Oct 26, 2007, Reuters, Rights Groups File French Torture Case vs Rumsfeld

Oct 25, 2007, Manu Raju, The Hill, White House to divulge surveillance papers to Senate Judiciary panel

Oct 25, 2007, Frederic J. Frommers, Associated Press, McCarthy's anti-Hoover push got FBI's attention

Oct 25, 2007, Dan Eggen, Washington Post, Second Court Ruling Redacts Information About Interrogation

Oct 25, 2007, Editorial, Los Angeles Times, Mukasey's take on torture

Oct 25, 2007, Ellen Nakashima, Washington Post, Senators Say White House Cut Deal With Panel on FISA

Oct 25, 2007, Agence France-Presse, More Than 755,000 on US Terrorist Watch List

Oct 24, 2007, Adam Liptak and Leslie Eaton, New York Times, Mistrial Is Latest Terror Prosecution Misstep for U.S.

Oct 24, 2007, Kari Lydersen, Washington Post, Deportation Target Has High-Profile Defenders, DHS Says Man Joined Terrorist Organization

Oct 24, 2007, David Cole, Washington Post, Anti-Terrorism on Trial: Why the Government Loses Funding Cases

Oct 24, 2007, Neil Macdonald, CBC (Canada), When is Torture not Torture?

Oct 24, 2007, Jonathan Turley, Los Angeles Times, Mukasey's confirmation: a vote about torture

Oct 24, 2007, Brian Beutler, AlterNet, Wiretapping at Its Worst

Oct 24, 2007, Associated Press, International Herald Tribune, Australian leader denies deal with US Vice President to free al-Qaida supporter

Oct 24, 2007, Editorial, Hartford (CT) Courant, A Tortuous Path For U.S.

Oct 24, 2007, Editorial, New York Times, The Supreme Court Showdown of the Year

Oct 24, 2007, Simon Tisdall, Guardian (UK), Bush's plan to spend away the terror

Oct 24, 2007, Jeff Jacoby, Boston Globe, The scope of federal power

Oct 24, 2007, Associated Press, Miami Herald, Ashcroft: Guantánamo internment humane

Oct 23, 2007, Steven Aftergood, Secrecy News, Comcast Pricetag is $1000 per Wiretap

Oct 23, 2007, Nat Hentoff, Washington Times, Bush's legal club: 'state secrets'

Oct 23, 2007, Leslie Eaton, New York Times, U.S. Prosecution of Muslim Group Ends in Mistrial

Oct 23, 2007, Eric Lichtblau and Scott Shane, New York Times, Companies Seeking Immunity Donate to Senator Rockefeller

Oct 23, 2007, Mark Mazzetti, New York Times, C.I.A. Chief Defends Review on Agency’s Inspector General

Oct 23, 2007, Jed Rubenfeld, New York Times, Lawbreaker in Chief

Oct 23, 2007, Ellen Nakashima, Washington Post, From Casinos to Counterterrorism

Oct 23, 2007, Jim Hightower, Hightower Lowdown, While Most of the Democrats in Washington Cower, The Presidency Is Taking Over the Courts and Congress

Oct 23, 2007, Pierre Tristam, Daytona Beach (FL) News-Journal, The Spies Who Shagged Your Fourth Amendmen

Oct 23, 2007, Charles Fried, Boston Globe, The Limits of Law

Oct 22, 2007, Lauren Collins, The New Yorker, Underwear Diplomacy

Oct 22, 2007, Declan McCullagh and Anne Broache, CNET, NSA cooperation: OK for e-mail, IM companies?

Oct 22, 2007, Dan Eggen, Washington Post, Immunity for Telecoms May Set Bad Precedent, Legal Scholars Say

Oct 22, 2007, Democracy Now!, Justice Dept Calls for Rendition Suit Against Boeing To Be Tossed

Oct 22, 2007, Democracy Now!, Verizon, AT&T Executives Give Over $40,000 to Sen. Rockefeller

Oct 22, 2007, Marjorie Cohn, Common Dreams, Michael Mukasey: Another Loyal Bushie

Oct 22, 2007, Leslie Eaton, New York Times, Mistrial in Muslim Charity Case, but Retrial Is Expected

Oct 21, 2007, Josh Meyer, Los Angeles Times, FBI working to bolster Al Qaeda cases

Oct 21, 2007, Tim Golden, New York Times, Naming Names at Gitmo

Oct 20, 2007, Carol Rosenberg, Miami Herald, Expanded Gitmo Court Taking Shape

Oct 20, 2007, William Glaberson, New York Times, Claim of Pressure for Closed Guantánamo Trials

Oct 20, 2007, Joel Rosenblatt, Bloomberg Wire Service, U.S. Asserts State Secrets, Seeks to Dismiss CIA Case

Oct 20, 2007, Pete Yost, Associated Press, Magistrate spurns Bush arguments in e-mail case

Oct 20, 2007, Alan Feuer, New York Times, Lawsuit Is Reinstated for Man Wrongly Suspected in 9/11

Oct 20, 2007, Adam Liptak, New York Times, Plainly, a Justice Department Pick of Like Mind

Oct 20, 2007, Scott Shane and Eric Lichtblau, New York Times, Wiretapping Compromise Was Months in the Making

Oct 20, 2007, Editorial, New York Times, With Democrats Like These ...

Oct 20, 2007, Josh White, New York Times, Ex-Prosecutor Alleges Pentagon Plays Politics

Oct 19, 2007, Tenille Bonoguore, Globe and Mail (Canada), U.S. Lawmakers Apologize to Arar

Oct 19, 2007, Dan Robinson, Voice of American, Canadian Victim Testifies About US Extraordinary Rendition

Oct 19, 2007, Elizabeth Holtzman, Progressive, Mukasey Should Be Confirmed Only If He Agrees to Appoint a Special Prosecutor

Oct 19, 2007, John W. Dean, FindLaw, Why, Even If You Have Nothing To Hide, Government Surveillance Threatens Your Freedom

Oct 19, 2007, Conor Foley, Guardian (UK), Will Administration that Tortures Ever See a Courtroom?

Oct 19, 2007, Carol Rosenberg, Miami Herald, Guantánamo expands migrant tent city plan

Oct 19, 2007, Richard B. Schmitt, Los Angeles Times, Mukasey Hearing Turns Prickly

Oct 19, 2007, Ari B. Bloomekatz and Molly Hennessy-Fiske, Los Angeles Times, LAX screeners sweat the small stuff, miss the 'bombs'

Oct 19, 2007, Associated Press, U.S. apologizes to Canadian man sent to Syria

Oct 19, 2007, Scott Shane and Eric Lichtblau, New York Times, Panel Approves Eavesdropping Compromise

Oct 19, 2007, Chris Suellentrop, New York Times, Mukasey Pressed on Torture (But He Won’t Talk)

Oct 19, 2007, Chris Suellentrop, New York Times, Mukasey Pressed on Torture (But He Won’t Talk)

Oct 19, 2007, Editorial, Palm Beach (FL) Post, Make wiretap program accountable to courts

Oct 19, 2007, Ian Cobain and Richard Norton-Taylor, Guardian (UK), Claims of Secret CIA Jail for Terror Suspects on British Island To Be Investigated

Oct 19, 2007, Editorial, Boston Globe, The Nominee Is Unresponsive

Oct 19, 2007, Jonathan Weisman and Ellen Nakashima, Washington Post, Democrats Caving To Bush: Agree On Terms of Spying Bill

Oct 18, 2007, ABC News, After Comments, US Terror Chief Resigns

Oct 18, 2007, Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 'No Fly' on Steroids

Oct 18, 2007, Brian Sonntag, Los Angeles Times, A Government That’s Open, Accessible and Responsive

Oct 18, 2007, Dan Murphy, Christian Science Monitor, US attorney general candidate rejects torture, vows independence

Oct 18, 2007, Pamela Hess, Associated Press, House Takes Up Surveillance Bill

Oct 18, 2007, Deirdre Walsh, Ted Barrett and Jessica Yellin, CNN, Surveillance bill on hold after GOP maneuver

Oct 18, 2007, Democracy Now!, Senate Leaders Agree to Telecom Immunity for Domestic Spying

Oct 18, 2007, Democracy Now!, A.G. Nominee Defends Gitmo, Indefinite Detentions

Oct 18, 2007, Philip Shenon, New York Times, Mukasey Questioned on Interrogations

Oct 18, 2007, Eric Lichtblau, New York Times, Senate Deal on Immunity for Phone Companies

Oct 18, 2007, Dan Eggen and Paul Kane, Washington Post, Mukasey Endorses Expansive Presidential Authority

Oct 18, 2007, Philip Shenon, New York Times, Attorney General Pick Treads Careful Line at Hearing

Oct 17, 2007, Editorial, New York Times, Pressing Mr. Mukasey

Oct 17, 2007, Aziz Huq, Deputy Director of the Justice Program at the Brennan Center., The Nation, Ten Questions for Michael Mukasey

Oct 17, 2007, Editorial, New York Times, Questions of Justice

Oct 17, 2007, Jonathan Finer, Washington Post, After Guantanamo, An Empty Freedom

Oct 17, 2007, Kevin Bohn, CNN, Verizon offers details on records releases

Oct 17, 2007, James Oliphant, Baltimore Sun, Mukasey: Gonzo torture memo 'worse than a sin'

Oct 17, 2007, Pamela Hess, Associated Press, House Takes Up Surveillance Bill

Oct 17, 2007, Editorial, Jurist, US military counsel violating Guantanamo client's rights: Canadian Khadr lawyer

Oct 16, 2007, Andy Worthington, Huffington Post, Guantánamo: Original Whistleblower Condemns Proposals to Hold New

Oct 16, 2007, Eric Kelderman, Stateline.org, New license rules slam some legal residents

Oct 16, 2007, Randall Mikkelsen, Reuters, White House threatens veto of wiretap bill

Oct 16, 2007, Roy Mark, eWeek.com, Verizon Admits to Emergency Wiretapping

Oct 16, 2007, Benjamin Wittes, New Republic, A False Argument Over FISA

Oct 16, 2007, Patrick Radden Keefe, Slate, The CIA's inspector general must be free to do his job

Oct 16, 2007, DAVID GERMAIN, Associated Press, Witherspoon Stars in New Film on Extraordinary Rendition

Oct 16, 2007, Michelle Shephard, Toronto Star, Khadr murder trial to resume

Oct 15, 2007, Ray McGovern, Consortium News, NSA Spying: What Did Pelosi Know?

Oct 15, 2007, Lara Jakes Jordan, Washington Post, Detentions to Be Top Topic for Mukasey

Oct 15, 2007, Jaime Jansen, Jurist, US Defense Department misusing national security letters: ACLU

Oct 15, 2007, Nat Hentoff, Washington Times, Gitmo prisoners deserve dignity

Oct 15, 2007, Scott Shane, New York Times, Former Phone Chief Says Spy Agency Sought Surveillance Help Before 9/11

Oct 15, 2007, William Glaberson, Washington Post, U.S. considers new military hearings for Guantánamo Bay detainees

Oct 15, 2007, Democracy Now!, Report: Bush Administration Sought Phone Records Before 9/11

Oct 14, 2007, Carol J. Williams, Los Angeles Times, Guantanamo tent city sets up for detainee tribunals

Oct 14, 2007, William Glaberson, New York Times, Portable Halls of Justice Rise in Guantánamo

Oct 14, 2007, Scott Shane, New York Times, Former Phone Chief Says Spy Agency Sought Surveillance Help Before 9/11

Oct 14, 2007, Editorial, New York Times, Spies, Lies and FISA

Oct 14, 2007, Editorial, Washington Post, Surveillance Update

Oct 13, 2007, James Rowley, Bloomberg Wire Service, Durbin Balks at Demand to Give Phone Companies Wiretap Immunity

Oct 13, 2007, Greg Miller, Los Angeles Times, Lawmakers criticize CIA inquiry

Oct 13, 2007, Editorial, Los Angeles Times, Bush's chance to RESTORE credibility

Oct 13, 2007, Ellen Nakashima and Dan Eggen, Washington Post, Former CEO Says U.S. Punished Phone Firm

Oct 12, 2007, Helen Thomas, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, US Torture Tactics Shame Us All

Oct 12, 2007, Laurence H. Ebersole, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Imagine No More Guantanamos

Oct 12, 2007, Carol Rosenberg, Miami Herald, Guantánamo captive charged

Oct 12, 2007, Patricia Williams, AlterNet, Feds Won't Let Go of Case Accusing Artist of Bio-terrorism

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Oct 11, 2007, Wilson Ring, Associated Press, Firm with overses clients says feds are bugging phones, computers

Oct 11, 2007, Mark Silva, Chicago Tribune, Bush demands 'flexibility' in terrorist surveillance

Oct 11, 2007, Associated Press, Feds Appealing Patriot Act Ruling

Oct 11, 2007, Associated Press, Jimmy Carter: U.S. Tortures Prisoners

Oct 11, 2007, Stephen Labaton, New York Times, House Panels Vote for More Scrutiny Over Foreign Eavesdropping

Oct 11, 2007, Richard Willing, USA Today, 4-1-1 on FISA eavesdropping bill

Oct 11, 2007, Gabriel Haboubi, Jurist, DOJ to appeal ruling that struck down Patriot Act search, surveillance provisions

Oct 10, 2007, Jennifer Loven, Associated Press, Bush Pushes for Telecom Immunity

Oct 10, 2007, James Oliphant, Baltimore Sun, Government says no to rights at Gitmo

Oct 10, 2007, Ryan Singel, Wired, NSA's Lucky Break: How the U.S. Became Switchboard to the World

Oct 10, 2007, Josh White, Washington Post, Judge Orders U.S. Not to Transfer Tunisian Detainee

Oct 10, 2007, Democracy Now!, Supreme Court Rejects Hearing for CIA Torture Victim

Oct 10, 2007, Reuters, Democrats Defy Bush, Approve Spy Bill

Oct 9, 2007, Eric Lichtblau and Carl Hulse, New York Times, Democrats Seem Ready to Extend Wiretap Powers

Oct 9, 2007, David G. Savage, Los Angeles Times, Supreme Court won't hear the appeal of apparent CIA victim

Oct 9, 2007, Ryan Singel, Wired, Dems Spying Bill Adds Oversight, Allows Taps Inside U.S.

Oct 9, 2007, Andy Worthington, Huffington Post, A New Guantánamo Whistleblower Steps Forward to Criticize the Tribunal Process

Oct 8, 2007, Julie Kay, Miami Daily Business Review, Miami lawyer quietly reps Guantanamo detainees

Oct 8, 2007, Ryan Singel, Wired, Dems To Propose Permanent Expanded Spy Powers, But With Audits

Oct 8, 2007, Nick Juliano, Raw Story, Delay in reapproving surveillance may be opening for civil liberties protections

Oct 8, 2007, David G. Savage, Los Angeles Times, Khaled El-Masri 'State Secrets' Case May Get Airing

Oct 8, 2007, David A. Love, Black Commentator, Academic McCarthyism Threatens Democracy

Oct 7, 2007, Ellen Nakashima, Washington Post, Democrats to Offer New Surveillance Rules

Oct 7, 2007, Editorial, New York Times, On Torture and American Values

Oct 7, 2007, Editorial, Los Angeles Times, Against a National ID

Oct 7, 2007, Ralph Nader, CounterPunch, Who Will Confront the Unprecedented and Unconstitutional Concentration of Executive Power?

Oct 7, 2007, Agence France-Presse, Pelosi Says US Appears Guilty of Torture

Oct 7, 2007, Elizabeth Sullivan, Cleveland (OH) Plain Dealer, How the Law Lost Out to Laws of Politics at the Justice Department

Oct 7, 2007, Robert Weiner, The Oregonian, Oregon in 2007

Oct 7, 2007, James Bovard, CounterPunch, Are Presidents Entitled to Kill Foreigners?

Oct 7, 2007, Mike Soraghan, The Hill, Bernstein: Congressional Oversight More Lax Now Than During Watergate

Oct 6, 2007, Geoffrey R. Stone, Huffington Post, A Review of Jack Goldsmith's The Terror Presidency

Oct 6, 2007, Sheryl Gay Stolberg, New York Times, Bush Says Interrogation Methods Aren’t Torture

Oct 6, 2007, Los Angeles Times, Documents in the Interrogation Debate

Oct 6, 2007, Andrew Gray, Reuters, Guantanamo Prosecutor Quits Post, Pentagon Says

Oct 6, 2007, Andrew Sullivan, Times (UK), Bush’s torturers follow where the Nazis led

Oct 5, 2007, Lyle Denniston, SCOTUSBlog, A new critique of Pentagon detainee panels

Oct 5, 2007, William H. Neukom, Christian Science Monitor, Restore Habeas, Restore Security

Oct 5, 2007, Ryan Singel, Wired, Dems Delay Spy Bill Due to Progressives' Objections

Oct 5, 2007, Tim Starks and John M. Donnelly, Congressional Quarterly, Democrats Want Details on Interrogation Memos

Oct 5, 2007, Tom Hayden, Huffington Post, Our Gulag: The Secret State of Torture

Oct 5, 2007, David Johnston and Scott Shane, New York Times, Debate Erupts on Techniques Used by C.I.A.

Oct 5, 2007, Editorial, Washington Post, The Detention Non-Solution

Oct 4, 2007, Scott Shane, David Johnson and James Risen, New York Times, Secret U.S. Endorsement of Severe Interrogations

Oct 4, 2007, Wasim Salman/ Editorial, Badger Herald (University of Wisconsin at Madison), Surveillance evokes Orwellian reality

Oct 4, 2007, Prensa Latina (Cuba), US Accused of Internal Espionage

Oct 4, 2007, Leigh Holmwood, Guardian (UK), Johnston writes open letter to Guantanamo detainee

Oct 4, 2007, The Economist, Civil liberties: detention without trial

Oct 4, 2007, David Johnston, New York Times, Congress Seeks Justice Dept. Documents on Interrogation

Oct 4, 2007, Eric Lichtblau, New York Times, A.C.L.U. Goes to Supreme Court Over Wiretaps

Oct 4, 2007, Associated Press, White House Denies Torture Assertion

Oct 4, 2007, Editorial, Washington Post, A Hearing for Mr. Mukasey

Oct 3, 2007, Norman Oder, Library Journal, New Legislation Introduced To Limit NSL Abuses

Oct 3, 2007, Associated Press, International Herald Tribune, Mauritanian Guantanamo detainee freed a week after return to home country

Oct 3, 2007, Andrew O. Selsky, Washington Post, Files Raise Questions on Gitmo Decisions

Oct 3, 2007, Pamela Hess, Associated Press, Legality of Eavesdropping Questioned

Oct 3, 2007, Ryan Singel, Wired, ACLU Asks Supremes to Let Anti-NSA Spying Case Continue

Oct 3, 2007, Jeffrey Silva, RCR Wireless News, House committee calls for further investigation into telecom wiretapping

Oct 3, 2007, Democracy Now!, Ex-Legal Advisor: Bush Spy Program Illegal

Oct 3, 2007, Neil A. Lewis, New York Times, Panel Is Told of 'Mess' Over Eavesdropping

Oct 3, 2007, Dan Eggen, Washington Post, White House Secrecy On Wiretaps Described

Oct 2, 2007, Secrecy News, Jack Goldsmith's Testimony Before House Judiciary Committee

Oct 2, 2007, Frank J. Ranelli, OpEdNews, Congressman Duncan Hunter's Message to Universities, "Be Patriotic, or Else!"

Oct 2, 2007, Dan Eggen, Washington Post, Justice Official: Details of Surveillance Program Tightly Guarded

Oct 2, 2007, Democracy Now!, Phone Company Censorship Policies Criticized

Oct 2, 2007, David G. Savage, Los Angeles Times, High Court Says No to New Rights for Church Groups

Oct 2, 2007, Associated Press, U.S. Postpones Domestic Spy Satellite Program

Oct 2, 2007, Associated Press, Judge Rules on Bush’s Order About Presidential Records

Oct 2, 2007, Associated Press, Khadr's lawyers want court to reconsider decision

Oct 2, 2007, Demetri Sevastopulo, Financial Times, Gates admits rift over Guantanamo

Oct 1, 2007, Miami Herald, High court won't hear 2nd Gitmo case

Oct 1, 2007, Carol Rosenberg, Miami Herald, Pentagon releases eight Guantánamo detainees

Oct 1, 2007, Laura Smith-Spark, BBC News, US Supreme Court's swing to right

Oct 1, 2007, Jaime Jansen, Jurist, DOD allows 'high value' Guantanamo detainees to request lawyers

Oct 1, 2007, Robert D'Andrea, Oregon Daily Emerald (University of Oregon, Eugene), Ruling deems parts of Patriot Act unconstitutional

Oct 1, 2007, Ann Wright, Common Dreams, More Bounties in Afghanistan and Pakistan Will Result in Detention of Innocent Civilians

Oct 1, 2007, David G. Savage, Los Angeles Times, Guantanamo inmates' rights to get fresh look

Oct 1, 2007, Eric Lipton, New York Times, New Scrutiny of Remote-Control Toys

Oct 1, 2007, Jill Lawless, Associated Press, NYC mayor: Surveillance a city necessity