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As fires rage, feds cut funding on prevention
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — As the West battles one catastrophic wildfire after another, the federal government is spending less and less on its main program for preventing blazes in the first place. A combination of government austerity and...
Tags: Conservation, Barack Obama, Wildfires, Inflation and Deflation, Politics
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Head-in-the-sand Congress likes it that way
Los Angeles Times (MCT)Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner, R-Wis., a former chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, is hopping mad. Sensenbrenner considers himself the father of the Patriot Act, the 2001 law that gave the federal government new powers to investigate potential...Tags: Judges, Dianne Feinstein, U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary, U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Politics
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National security needs secrecy but also accountability
Fort Worth Star-TelegramThe following editorial appeared in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram on Monday, June 17: The newest revelations about the U.S. government collecting communications data underscore our hallowed American heritage of jealously guarding our privacy rights....Tags: Judges, Barack Obama, The New York Times, Mining, George W. Bush
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NSA chief: Surveillance stopped 50 terrorist 'events'
McClatchy Washington BureauWASHINGTON The director of the National Security Agency testified Tuesday that the government's massive surveillance program helped thwart more than 50 terrorist "events" worldwide since Sept. 11, 2001, including a planned bombing of the New York Stock...Tags: Judges, Barack Obama, U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Science and Technology, Brookings Institution
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Pitiful story of boy's slaying should melt 'cold' hearts
"The murder was committed in a cold, calculated and premeditated manner," said Assistant Cook County State's Attorney Maureen O'Brien, speaking last week to reporters about the recent stabbing death of a 14-year-old River Grove youth, allegedly at the...
Tags: Behavioral Conditions, Murder, Jarmes R. Clapper, Autism Speaks, U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
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Fire James Clapper, then put him in the dock
Change of SubjectI invite my most clever, lawyerly comment contributors to make the case that National Intelligence Director James Clapper (right) did not brazenly commit perjury during his testimony to the Senate Intelligence Committee on March 12. Oregon Democrat Ron... -
Senators introduce bill requiring greater disclosure of NSA programs
WASHINGTON – A bipartisan group of senators is introducing new legislation that they say will provide greater transparency of National Security Agency surveillance programs, the first significant legislative response to the revelation of the...
Tags: Dianne Feinstein, U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Barack Obama, U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Politics
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Feinstein will seek limits on who can see NSA spy data
McClatchy Washington BureauWASHINGTON The Senate intelligence committee chairman on Thursday vowed an effort to limit the access of government contract workers, such as Edward Snowden, to highly classified information. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., made the promise after...Tags: Judges, Barack Obama, Dick Durbin, Business Enterprises, Robert Mueller
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Too much comfort in secret-keeping
Los Angeles TimesPresident Obama's response to the troubling news of indiscriminate government collection of communication information was meant to be reassuring: The NSA is operating under supervision by all three branches of government, he assured us. Even if this were...Tags: Judges, Barack Obama, The New York Times, Justice System, National Security Agency
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Tim Weiner: Open up rulings of secret court to protect democracy
The U.S. has forsworn secret prisons. But we have reams of secret laws for our secret intelligence agencies, interpreted by a secret court that hands down secret rulings. The time is ripe to declassify the rulings, enough to reassure us that the rule of...
Tags: Judges, Barack Obama, Trials, The New York Times, George W. Bush
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U.S. lawmakers tire of playing '20 questions' in surveillance briefings
Reuters* Bill introduced seeking more openness on surveillance * 22 briefings for Congress in 14 months * Staffers barred from most briefings By Patricia Zengerle and Thomas Ferraro WASHINGTON, June 13 (Reuters) - Some members of the U.S. Congress say that...Tags: Edward Snowden, Labor Legislation, Career and Workplace, Facebook, Barack Obama
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Lawmakers tire of playing '20 questions' in surveillance briefings
ReutersWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Some members of the Congress say that getting straight answers from intelligence agencies about top-secret surveillance is like playing the game "20 Questions," where answers come only if a questioner knows exactly what to ask....Tags: Edward Snowden, Career and Workplace, Labor Legislation, Facebook, Barack Obama
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