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Bush Intel Reorganization Gives National Intelligence Director More Power

AP | PAMELA HESS | Posted 07.31.2008 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — President Bush's new executive order revising rules for intelligence agencies expands the national intelligence director's powers a...

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Is This How We Win Friends?

William Fisher | Posted 01.02.2008 | Politics

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We need to stop substituting post-9/11 paranoia for evidence. Using the law as a blunt instrument is highly unlikely to make many friends for the U.S. in a community where we desperately need all the friends we can find.

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Sen. Whitehouse Reveals Secret Justice Dept. Memos: Bush Determines What Is Constitutional

Think Progress | Posted 12.07.2007 | Politics

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This morning, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) delivered an impassioned floor speech to help frame the debate over FISA reform. Using his privilege as a...

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