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By Patricia Wilson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democrats see the Supreme Court's Guantanamo ruling as repudiation of a power-hungry White House. Republicans say it shows how tough President George W. Bush is on terrorists and voters will eat it up. Both parties face a contentious political debate over the decision declaring military tribunals illegal as they look to capitalize on a national security issue ahead of crucial congressional elections in November. "How do you go back to Chicago,...
By Patricia Wilson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democrats see the Supreme Court's Guantanamo ruling as repudiation of a power-hungry White House. Republicans say it shows how tough President George W. Bush is on terrorists and voters will eat it up. Both parties face a contentious political debate over the decision declaring military tribunals illegal as they look to capitalize on a national security issue ahead of crucial congressional elections in November. "How do you go back to Chicago,...
By Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Senate panel voted on Thursday to delay a post-September 11 border security program requiring passports or other high-tech IDs for everyone entering the United States following concerns about lagging technology and poor coordination with Canada. The Senate Appropriations Committee unanimously approved the 17-month delay, until June 1, 2009, for fully implementing the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative. Sen. Patrick Leahy, a Vermont Democrat,...
By Kevin Drawbaugh WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Top U.S. House of Representatives Democrats said on Wednesday they plan to introduce legislation to revive a government effort to regulate hedge funds that was blocked last week by a court. Massachusetts Rep. Barney Frank said he will unveil a bill on Thursday to give the Securities and Exchange Commission "clear authority to require registration and monitoring" of hedge fund advisers. A federal appeals court last week threw out an SEC rule...
TEL AVIV (Reuters) - U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales on Tuesday defended the treatment of prisoners at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp, saying the administration did its best and that the courts would judge "whether or not we made the right call." The United States has faced harsh international criticism for its treatment of terrorism suspects at the Guantanamo Bay naval base. Gonzales brushed aside the criticism at the start of a Middle East tour, saying: "They receive top...
By Diane Bartz WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House appears to be leaning toward allowing a secret federal court to look at its controversial warrantless wiretaps, a reversal of previous policy, a top Republican senator said on Sunday. Sen. Arlen Specter, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, had been pressing the Bush administration to seek clearance from the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or FISA, court. The act requires warrants from the court for...
By Diane Bartz WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House appears to be leaning toward allowing a secret federal court to look at its controversial warrantless wiretaps, a reversal of previous policy, a top Republican senator said on Sunday. Sen. Arlen Specter, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, had been pressing the Bush administration to seek clearance from the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or FISA, court. The act requires warrants from the court for...
By Jim Christie SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Privacy rights advocates pressed a U.S. judge on Friday to allow their lawsuit against AT&T to go forward, charging the telecommunications giant is breaking the law by helping a U.S. government eavesdropping program. Lawyers for AT&T, which will neither confirm nor deny it is letting the U.S. government monitor its telephone and e-mail traffic as part of a counterterrorism effort, shot back in U.S. District Court in San Francisco that the...
By Patricia Wilson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - With Iraq looming over critical U.S. congressional elections this year and the 2008 presidential campaign, some Democrats are beginning to be less fearful of the party split over the war. While President George W. Bush, his political architect Karl Rove and Republicans in Congress step up their attacks, Democrats say the fact they are challenging the administration's conduct of the war will play well with voters in November when the balance of...
MIAMI (Reuters) - The FBI and other U.S. law enforcement agencies made arrests on Thursday as part of an terrorist-related investigation, U.S. prosecutors in Miami said. "Earlier today, the FBI, in conjunction with federal, state and local authorities, executed arrests as part of an ongoing investigation into a terrorist-related matter," the U.S. Attorneys Office for the Southern District of Florida said in a statement. "The individuals arrested posed no immediate threat to our...
