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Friday Talking Points -- War On Women Continues Apace

Chris Weigant | Posted 06.14.2013 | Politics
Chris Weigant

This week's announcement that the Justice Department is going to drop its appeal against providing the morning-after birth control pill to anyone who needs it comes as such a welcome change that we feel the award is deserved.

Clarity From Snowden -- But Murky Response From Progressives in Congress

Norman Solomon | Posted 06.13.2013 | Politics
Norman Solomon

The Progressive Caucus could supply a principled counterweight to the bombast coming from the likes of Boehner and Feinstein. But for that to happen, leaders of the caucus would need to set a good example by putting up a real fight.

Big Money and the NSA Scandal ... How Dangerous is the "Security/Digital Complex"?

Richard (RJ) Eskow | Posted 06.10.2013 | Politics
Richard (RJ) Eskow

Recent NSA revelations bring up some grave concerns about civil liberties. But they also raise other profound questions -- about the privatization of our military, our inflated expectations for digital technology, and the increasingly cozy relationship between Big Corporations (including Wall Street) and Big Defense.

How to Win the War on Terror: Repeal the Patriot Act

Carl Gibson | Posted 06.08.2013 | Politics
Carl Gibson

By the Fall of 2014, we all need to agree on two simple demands - that all members of the House and Senate who voted for the Patriot Act, and all of i...

Feinstein: NSA Program Helped Disrupt Terror Plots

AP/The Huffington Post | Posted 06.09.2013 | Politics

WASHINGTON (AP) — Two members of the Senate Intelligence Committee are divided about whether there's evidence that the government's phone records co...

Lucia Graves

GOP Rep.: Journalist Who Broke NSA Story 'Doesn't Have A Clue'

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucia Graves | Posted 06.09.2013 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Mich.), chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, said Sunday that Glenn Greenwald, the Guardian journalist who ...

Friday Talking Points -- Rest In Peace, Fourth Amendment

Chris Weigant | Posted 06.07.2013 | Politics
Chris Weigant

We gather here today to mourn the passing of the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution. Although weakened and battered in the past, it seems that it has finally succumbed and will be heard of no more.

Top Senators, White House Official Travel To Guantanamo Bay

AP | DONNA CASSATA | Posted 06.07.2013 | Politics

WASHINGTON — White House chief of staff Denis McDonough and two leading senators on national security reaffirmed their support for closing the U...

Open Letter to Senator Dianne Feinstein About the Bill of Rights

Norman Solomon | Posted 06.07.2013 | Politics
Norman Solomon

The greatness of the Fourth Amendment explains why so many Americans treasure it today. But along with other high-ranking members of Congress and the president of the United States, you have continued to chip away at this sacred bedrock of civil liberties.

Feinstein: Court Order For Phone Records A Renewal

AP | DONNA CASSATA | Posted 06.06.2013 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- The chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence committee says the top secret court order for telephone records of millions of U.S. customers ...

The IRS Is Also Abusing 'Marijuana'

Rob Kampia | Posted 05.28.2013 | Politics
Rob Kampia

Long before the IRS began singling out groups with the words "tea party" or "patriot" in their names, "marijuana" was a political buzzword that elicited special attention from the IRS.

Democrats Blow Another One

Salon | Posted 05.22.2013 | Politics

My friend John Fugelsang likes to say that the Democratic Party is like an S&M submissive who forgot his safety word. After the lame performance of De...

Obama Administration Keeps Report On Secret Terms

Salon | Posted 05.06.2013 | Politics

Much of what you’ve been told (or seen in movies) about George W. Bush’s supposedly effective torture program is false and overhyped. At least, th...

John Celock

WATCH: GOP Legislator Warns Of Revolution

HuffingtonPost.com | John Celock | Posted 05.01.2013 | Politics

A Republican legislator in New Hampshire asked U.S. Sen. Kelly Ayotte (R-N.H.) Tuesday if the country is on the brink of a revolution over immigration...

Federal Courts Should be Venue of Choice to Prosecute Terrorists Captured in U.S.

Sen. Dianne Feinstein | Posted 04.30.2013 | Politics
Sen. Dianne Feinstein

Holding American citizens who have been arrested on U.S. soil in indefinite military detention is absolutely incompatible with our values. I believe military detention is not only unconstitutional, but has also proven ineffective at achieving justice and gaining intelligence.

Guantanamo Desperation 'Unprecedented,' Dianne Feinstein Tells White House

The Huffington Post | Ryan J. Reilly | Posted 04.25.2013 | Politics

The International Committee of the Red Cross told congressional staffers that the level of desperation amongst Guantanamo detainees is "unprecedented,...

Senate Vote May Signal Problems For The Gun Lobby

National Journal | Ronald Brownstein | Posted 04.23.2013 | Politics

The outcome of Wednesday’s dramatic Senate vote on expanding background checks simultaneously demonstrated the difficult geography confronting gun-c...

Feinstein Wants Answers From FBI On Boston Suspect

AP | KIMBERLY DOZIER | Posted 04.22.2013 | Politics

WASHINGTON — Sen. Dianne Feinstein wants to know what the FBI learned when it interviewed Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev (tsa...

Sabrina Siddiqui

Lawmakers Split On 'Enemy Combatant' Status

HuffingtonPost.com | Sabrina Siddiqui | Posted 04.22.2013 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) strongly rejected calls to declare Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev an enemy combatant, arguing...

"This Is Not About Her Personal Opinion"

Wendy Carrillo | Posted 06.17.2013 | Los Angeles
Wendy Carrillo

On April 10, the national day of action for immigration reform, labor leader Maria Elena Durazo was outspoken in her critique of U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein.

Obama Plans Dinner With Dems

AP | NEDRA PICKLER | Posted 06.16.2013 | Politics

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is making dinner plans with more lawmakers, this time with Democrats. The White House says Obama is having ...

Toward Ensuring an End to U.S.-Sponsored Torture

Rev. Richard L. Killmer | Posted 06.16.2013 | Politics
Rev. Richard L. Killmer

A non-governmental, bipartisan task force recently completed a two-year investigation into the U.S. government's treatment of 9/11 detainees, concluding indisputably that the United States government engaged in illegal torture.

Feinstein: 'My Understanding Is That It's A Terrorist Incident'

AP | DAVID ESPO | Posted 06.15.2013 | Politics

WASHINGTON — With little official information to guide them, members of Congress said Monday there was scant or no doubt that the deadly Boston ...

Christina Wilkie

Lobbyists Have Kept One Industry Well Out Of Gun Control Debate

HuffingtonPost.com | Christina Wilkie | Posted 04.09.2013 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- As President Barack Obama spends his political capital this week in an attempt to advance gun control legislation in Congress, the natio...

Aaron Sankin

Dianne Feinstein: I Used To Be A Gun Owner Myself

HuffingtonPost.com | Aaron Sankin | Posted 04.04.2013 | San Francisco

SAN FRANCISCO -- Dianne Feinstein has long been one of the Senate's strongest advocates for gun control. But few people may know that the California D...