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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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The Bush administration is preparing to ask Congress to approve an arms sale package for Saudi Arabia and its neighbors that is expected to eventually total $20 billion at a time when some United States officials contend that the Saudis are playing a counterproductive role in Iraq.
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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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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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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.”
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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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President Bush issued an executive order Friday that will allow the Central Intelligence Agency to resume its use of some severe interrogation methods for questioning detainees in secret prisons overseas.
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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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President Bush issued an executive order which allows his to confiscate assets of anyone who interferes with his plans in Iraq.
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Former White House Counsel Harriet Miers has again rejected calls from the House Judiciary Committee to comply with a subpoena for her testimony on the firing of 9 US Attorneys in 2006 and 2007.
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President Vladimir V. Putin, angered by American plans to deploy a missile shield in Eastern Europe, formally notified NATO governments on Saturday that Russia will suspend its obligations under the Conventional Forces in Europe Treaty, a key cold war-era arms limitation agreement.
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The House Judiciary subcommittee moved towards beginning contempt proceedings against former White House counsel Harriet Miers. Miers refused to appear before a Congressional hearing on the firing of U.S. attorneys after President Bush invoked executive privilege to prevent her testimony.
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A new U.S. government analysis concluded that Al Qaeda is the strongest it has been since the aftermath of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. President Bush said it was “simply not the case” that al-Qaeda had successfully rebuilt itself despite a massive six-year campaign to dismantle it.
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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 Army missed its recruiting goals in June for the second straight month, as rising casualties in Iraq and a strong economy at home kept the service from enlisting enough new soldiers, Pentagon officials said.
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Gonzales sent several reports detailing FBI violations before he testified to congress that “There has not been one verified case of civil liberties abuse.”
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An Army Reserve sergeant is suing the Army for trying to make him go to war for the fifth time.
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A U.S. appeals court ruled on Friday a lawsuit challenging the domestic spying program must be dismissed, because the American Civil Liberties Union, who filed the suit, did not have the legal right to bring the challenge in the first place.
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67 percent of Americans believe the war in Iraq is creating more terrorists.
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A survey carried out in June by Harris Research to be published Monday shows that 32% of respondents in five European countries regard the US as a bigger threat than any other state, including Iran and North Korea combined. Even in the U.S. itself, 35% of Americans 16- to 24-years-old identify America as the chief danger to stability.
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