A federal intelligence court judge ruled earlier this year that a key part of the wiretap effort is illegal. The judge ruled the administration had violated its authority in trying to monitor overseas communication routed through the United States.
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The House voted Thursday to give U.S. troops guaranteed time at home between deployments to Iraq, which President Bush threatened to veto if passed in the Senate.
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The nation’s top intelligence official confirmed the Bush administration’s warrantless wiretapping was only one part of a broader surveillance program.
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In 56 of Ohio’s 88 counties, ballots and election records from 2004 have been “accidentally” destroyed, despite a federal order to preserve them.
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ABC News is reporting the FBI is recruiting thousands of undercover informants to help the agency spy inside the United States.
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A 108-year-old woman was told she has to wait at least 18 months to receive a new hearing aid. “I could be dead by then,” she said.
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President Bush called for Congress to revise a US security law in order to ease restrictions on the government’s secret communications surveillance of terror suspects.
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State-sanctioned teams of computer hackers were able to break through the security of virtually every model of California’s voting machines and change results or take control of some of the systems’ electronic functions, according to a University of California study released Friday.
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Democrats are considering asking for a special counsel to investigate whether Gonzales perjured himself during his testimony before House Judiciary Committee after FBI Director Robert Mueller confirmed a confrontation between Alberto Gonzales and John Ashcroft over U.S. domestic spying while Ashcroft was hospitalized, directly contradicting Gonzales testimony that the confrontation did not occur.
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A new Congressional report has found thousands of federal workers and responders are still lacking adequate health care programs to deal with the medical problems they developed at Ground Zero following the 9/11 attacks.
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Former congressman Tom DeLay gave a speech about abortion to a gathering of college Republicans in Washington, D.C. “If we had those 40 million children that were killed over the last 30 years,†said DeLay, “we wouldn’t need the illegal immigrants to fill the jobs that they are doing today.â€
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The Pentagon accused Senator Hillary Clinton of reinforcing “enemy propaganda†when she asked whether the Bush Administration had an exit plan for the Iraq war.
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Minimum wage will raise tomorrow for the first time in almost 10 years, from $5.15 an hour to $5.85.
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Senator Russ Feingold (D-WI), a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, announced he would introduce a measure to censure President Bush, Vice President Cheney, and other administration officials for “misconduct relating to the war in Iraq and for their repeated assaults on the rule of law.”
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A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit by outed spy Valerie Plame and her husband against Vice President Dick Cheney and other top Bush administration officials.
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The longtime chairman of the Roger Williams University board admitted Monday that he had used the N-word during a board meeting, saying he learned the term from television and rap music.
“I apologized for that,” Ralph Papitto said in an interview on WPRO-AM. “What else can I do? Kill myself?”
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Los Angeles sheriffs launched an internal investigation into allegations that Paris Hilton received preferential treatment during her jail sentence last month.
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Former Surgeon General Richard H. Carmona told a Congressional panel Tuesday that top Bush administration officials would not allow him to speak or issue reports about stem cells, emergency contraception, sex education, or prison, mental and global health issues. He was also ordered to mention President Bush three times on every page of his speeches.
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President Bush invoked executive privilege to block the testimony of two former aides and deny Congress key documents in its probe into the firing of nine US attorneys.
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The White House dared Congress to take them to court.
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