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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: Nature Conservancy, National Government, Inflation and Deflation, Wildfires, Budgets and Budgeting
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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: River Grove, Murder, Shootings, Autism Speaks, Autism
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Column: Head-in-the-sand Congress
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: September 11, 2001 Attacks, Jane Harman, Laws, National Security Agency, Justice System
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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: Edward Snowden, American Civil Liberties Union, National Security Agency, Central Intelligence Agency, Trials
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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: Laws, Security Measures, American Civil Liberties Union, National Security Agency, Justice System
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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... -
U.S. loses millions on coal leases, inspector general report says
This post has been corrected. See the note at the bottom for details.WASHINGTON -- The Interior Department is losing tens of millions of dollars in revenue annually because it leases public land for coal mining at rock-bottom prices, according to a report by the agency’s inspector general The report focuses on coal...Tags: Metal and Mineral, U.S. Department of the Interior, Boston, Land Resources, Coal
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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: U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, The Wall Street Journal, Mike Lee, Rand Paul, Laws
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Edward Snowden: Hero or criminal?
Over the weekend, as Americans were still absorbing double-barreled revelations about the extent of the National Security Agency's electronic surveillance, the source of that information outed himself. Edward J. Snowden, a 29-year-old former employee of a...
Tags: September 11, 2001 Attacks, Electronics, Barack Obama, Science and Technology, Crime, Law and Justice
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Government is tracking all U.S. phone calls
WASHINGTON — The federal government has amassed a database for at least seven years containing details on virtually every telephone call made within the United States or between this country and telephones abroad, officials said Thursday,...
Tags: Rand Paul, U.S. House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, Unrest, Conflicts and War, American Civil Liberties Union, Parties and Movements
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NSA, Verizon surveillance program: What you need to know
The government has secretly amassed an enormous database of telephone call records. Here are the answers to some questions about the program: Q: What information does the government have? A: It has collected the equivalent of phone logs showing...
Tags: Rand Paul, USA Today, Jeff Merkley, Crime, Law and Justice, National Security Agency
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Not just Verizon? Secret NSA effort to gather phone data is years old
WASHINGTON -- The massive National Security Agency collection of telephone records disclosed Wednesday was part of a continuing program that has been in effect nonstop since 2006, according to the two top leaders of the Senate Intelligence Committee....
Tags: National Government, National Security, Unrest, Conflicts and War, National Security Agency, Justice System
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