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  • Illegal Religious Gatherings
    Editorial
    Washington Times
  • Tiananmen: Days to Remember
    by Dan Southerland
    Washington Post
  • The Real Danger of Right-Wing Extremists
    by David Kupelian
    World Net Daily
  • Supreme Court Ruling Weakens the Right to Counsel
    Editorial
    Los Angeles Times
  • Terrorism and Civil Liberties
    by Ivan Eland
    Independent Institute
  • Obama's Democratic Authoritarianism
    by Justin Raimondo
    Antiwar.com
  • Right to Counsel? Only If You Know to Keep Your Mouth Shut, Says Court
    by J.D. Tuccille
    The Examiner
  • Let's Stay Vigilant Against Big Brother
    by Andrew Wood
    The Guardian
  • Cop Fans Applaud Beating of Suspect
    by J.D. Tuccille
    The Examiner
  • New Hampshire Man Jailed for Legally Photographing Courthouse Lobby
    by J.D. Tuccille
    The Examiner
  • Obama Offers Security at the Expense of Liberty
    by Michael Barone
    The Examiner
  • Hate Crime Bill Threatens to Criminalize Thoughts
    by J.D. Tuccille
    The Examiner
  • Who Is Watching the Watchmen?
    by Gene Healy
    Cato Institute
  • President Obama Looks Unimpressive on Civil Liberties after 100 Days
    by J.D. Tucille
    The Examiner
  • Swine Flu, the Lessons of 1918 and Your Civil Liberties
    by J.D. Tuccille
    The Examiner
  • Why the Supreme Court's Car Search Decision Matters
    by J.D. Tuccille
    The Examiner
  • Obama Shrugs Off Concerns
    by Nat Hentoff
    Washington Times
  • A Future of Private Roads and Highways
    by Walter Block
    Ludwig von Mises Institute
  • The NYT's Predictable Revelation: New FISA Law Enabled Massive Abuses
    by Glenn Greenwald
    Salon.com
  • Want to Prevent Piracy? Privatize the Ocean
    by Peter T. Leeson
    National Review Online
  • The Free World Bars Free Speech
    by Jonathan Turley
    Washington Post
  • Keep the Government from Snooping in Our Email
    Editorial
    The Examiner
  • New and Worse Secrecy and Immunity Claims from the Obama DOJ
    by Glenn Greenwald
    Salon.com
  • Scott Horton Interviews James Bovard
    Antiwar Radio
  • Book's Closing on Free Expression
    by Jonah Goldberg
    Boston Herald
  • Our Problem Is Immorality
    by Walter E. Williams
    George Mason University
  • Censorship: The Fairness Doctrine
    by Garry Reed
    The Examiner
  • Peaceful Dissent and Government Witch Hunts
    by Anthony Gregory
    Campaign for Liberty
  • Susette Kelo's Revenge
    by J.D. Tuccille
    The Examiner
  • Defiant Convention
    Editorial
    The Guardian
  • Obama's Policy on Civil Liberties: Bush Lite?
    by Ivan Eland
    Independent Institute
  • America's Human Traffickers
    by Garry Reed
    DC Examiner
  • On Reinstating the Draft
    by Ron Paul
    U.S. House of Representatives
  • We Are All Extremists Now
    by Seumas Milne
    The Guardian
  • On Reinstating the Draft
    by Ron Paul
    U.S. House of Representatives
  • We Are All Extremists Now
    by Seumas Milne
    The Guardian
  • A Response to William Hauser and Jerome Slater
    by Karen Kwiatkowski
    LewRockwell.com
  • "National Service" and Conscription: A Question of Ownership
    by William Norman Grigg
    Campaign for Liberty
  • You Respect My Rights and I'll Respect Yours
    by J.D. Tuccille
    DC Examiner
  • Obama Fails His First Test on Civil Liberties and Accountability — Resoundingly and Disgracefully
    by Glenn Greenwald
    Salon.com
  • What's the Penalty for Dodging Mandatory National Service?
    by J.D. Tuccille
    Examiner.com
  • The Buck Keeps Moving
    by Jacob Sullum
    Washington Times
  • The DOJ Pursues the "Real Criminal" in the NSA Spying Scandal
    by Glenn Greenwald
    Salon.com
  • Another Brutal Year for Liberty
    by Glenn Greenwald
    Salon.com
  • Obama's Black Widow
    by Nat Hentoff
    Village Voice
  • Cheney Says Top Congressional Democrats Complicit in Spying
    by Glenn Greenwald
    Salon.com
  • How Vulnerable Are We?
    by Henry Porter
    The Guardian
  • What Obama Doesn't Know
    by Nat Hentoff
    Village Voice
  • National Security Letter Gag Orders Restricted in Court Decision
    by J.D. Tuccille
    Examiner.com
  • Exhuming the Fairness Doctrine
    by Bruce Fein
    Washington Times
  • You, Too, Can Defeat Cruel Dictators Online
    by Adam Lebor
    London Times
  • Fighting State Censorship
    by Padraig Reidy
    The Guardian
  • Broadcast "Fairness" Fouls Out
    by George F. Will
    Washington Post
  • Freedom to Speak
    by Horace Cooper
    Washington Times
  • The Great Writ of Habeas Corpus
    by Christine Bremer Muggli
    The Capital Times
  • The Bush Pardons
    by Scott Horton
    Harper's Magazine
  • Will Obama Protect Civil Liberties?
    by Nat Hentoff
    Washington Times
  • Guard Your Rights at the Metro Station
    by Steven Silverman
    Washington Post
  • A Long Train of Abuses
    by Alexander Cockburn
    American Conservative
  • Democratic Pressure on Obama to Restore the Rule of Law
    by Adam Cohen
    New York Times
  • Free Speech: How Will Liberals Divvy Up?
    by Nat Hentoff
    Washington Times
  • Scott Horton Interviews James Bovard (audio)
    Antiwar Radio
  • Joining the War Over the Constitution
    by Nat Hentoff
    Village Voice
  • Bush's Boudoir Eavesdropping
    Editorial
    Boston Globe
  • Democracy Needs Spontaneity
    by John Ozimek
    The Guardian
  • Exclusionary Rule's Crucial Role
    by Cheryl D. Stein
    Washington Times
  • What Does Sarah Paliln Have to Hide in Her Yahoo Emails?
    by Glenn Greenwald
    Salon.com
  • Let Government Mind Your Own Business
    by Jeff Jacoby
    Boston Globe
  • Why We Were Falsely Arrested
    by Amy Goodman
    TruthDig.com
  • Pursuit of Habeas
    by Jack Hitt
    Mother Jones
  • Who Is Under Bush's Watch?
    by Nat Hentoff
    Washington Times
  • Federal Government Involved in Raids on Protesters
    by Glenn Greenwald
    Salon.com
  • Safe in Our Cages
    by A.C. Grayling
    The Guardian
  • Keep Big Brother Out of My Trash
    by Anna Shaff
    Christian Science Monitor
  • Un-American Surveillance in Maryland
    by Larry Cox
    Washington Post
  • Convention Hosts Regard Your Rights as a Nuisance
    Editorial
    USA Today
  • Congress Rolled Over on FISA
    by Robert Jacobson
    Los Angeles Times
  • Aug. 8, 1974 vs. July 9, 2008
    by Glenn Greenwald
    Salon.com
  • Compromising the Constitution
    Editorial
    New York Times
  • This Surveillance Onslaught Is Draconian and Creepy
    by Marina Hyde
    The Guardian
  • Statement on FISA Amendments
    by Ron Paul
    U.S. House of Representatives
  • Chris Dodd's Speech and a Glimmer of Hope for
    Stopping the FISA Bill
    by Glenn Greenwald
    Salon.com
  • The Hedonists of Power
    by Chris Hedges
    Truthdig.com
  • Surveillance Bill: The Worst of All Worlds
    by Aziz Huq
    The Nation
  • Time Magazine Uncritically Prints Nancy Pelosi's "Justifications" for the FISA "Compromise"
    by Glenn Greenwald
    Salon.com
  • Targeting Steny Hoyer for His Contempt for the Rule of Law
    by Glenn Greenwald
    Salon.com
  • NYT Circulates Fear-Mongering Claims on FISA Debate
    by Glenn Greenwald
    Salon.com
  • Foreign Policy and Civil Liberties
    by Ron Paul, Stephen Kinzer, and Andrew J. Bacevich
    C-SPAN
  • Town Hall Snoopers Are Taking a Liberty
    by John Hipkin
    The Telegraph
  • Big Brother Is Watching You…
    by Phil Hendren
    London Times
  • What a Liberty
    by Richard Norton-Taylor
    The Guardian
  • Our Patriotic Debt
    by Elwood Earl Sanders Jr.
    Style Weekly
  • READ ID Side Effects
    by Mark Sanford
    Washington Times
  • The Government Is Trying to Wrap Its Mind Around Yours
    by Nita Farahany
    Washington Post
  • D.C. Police State
    Editorial
    Washington Times
  • Precious Liberty
    by A.C. Grayling
    The Guardian
  • Right Now, Feds Might Be Looking into Your Finances
    by Thomas Frank
    USA Today
  • Wiretapping's True Danger
    by Julian Sanchez
    Los Angeles Times
  • Living by the Sword
    by Ron Paul
    U.S. House of Representatives
  • Why We Sued the Phone Company
    by Studs Terkel et. al.
    Chicago Tribune
  • House Democratic Leadership: Not Just Complicit but Also Self-Destructive
    by Glenn Greenwald
    Salon.com
  • British Justice: A Family Ruined
    by Camilla Cavendish
    London Times
  • The Courts and Congress Affirmatively Conceal and Protect Lawbreaking
    by Glenn Greenwald
    Salon.com
  • Amnesty Day for Bush and Lawbreaking Telecoms
    by Glenn Greenwald
    Salon.com
  • You Want a More "Progressive" America? Careful What You Wish For
    by Jonah Goldberg
    Christian Science Monitor
  • Britain Is Slithering Down the Road towards a Police State
    by Simon Jenkins
    The Guardian
  • Is Michael Mukasey Prioritizing the Harassment and Imprisonment of Journalists?
    by Glenn Greenwald
    Salon.com
  • Our State Collects More Data than the Stasi Ever Did. We Need to Fight Back
    by Timothy Garton Ash
    The Guardian
  • "Trust Us" Government
    by Glenn Greenwald
    Salon.com
  • The End of American Liberty
    by Paul Craig Roberts
    Counterpunch.org
  • More Disruptions to the Cheney/Rockefeller Plan
    by Glenn Greenwald
    Salon.com
  • Terrorism and Speech
    by Joanne Mariner
    Findlaw.com
  • Freedom for Thought We Hate
    by Nat Hentoff
    Washington Times
  • The End of Privacy
    by Elliot Cohen
    Truthdig.com
  • The National ID Register Will Leak Like a Battered Bucket
    by Jackie Ashley
    The Guardian
  • Lawbreaking Telecoms Still Conniving to Obtain Immunity from Congress
    by Glenn Greenwald
    Salon.com
  • This Is What a Police State Looks Like (Video: WARNING: Contains Vulgarities)
    BlackListedNews.com
  • Liberty Begins at Home
    by Shami Chakrabarti
    The Guardian
  • We Have Everything to Fear from ID Cards
    by Andrew O'Hagan
    The Telegraph
  • Favorite Quotes of 2007
    by Glenn Greenwald
    Salon.com
  • Privacy Rights: Spying on Us
    Editorial
    Seattle Post-Intelligencer
  • Hoover Planned Mass Jailing in 1950
    by Tim Weiner
    New York Times
  • Pakistan's Tyranny Continues
    by Aitzaz Ahsan
    New York Times
  • Lawyers Stepping Up
    by Katrina Vanden Heuvel
    The Nation
  • Another Milestone on the Road to Serfdom
    by Scott Horton
    Harper's
  • Confronting Joe McCarthy, Then and Now
    by Nat Hentoff
    Village Voice
  • Judicial Skepticism Warranted?
    by Bruce Fein
    Washington Times
  • Anatomy and Significance of Monday's FISA Victory
    by Glenn Greenwald
    Salon.com
  • Civil Liberties Are for Everyone
    by Natasha Walter
    The Guardian
  • Remarks on Violent Radicalization & Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act
    by Ron Paul
    U.S. House of Representatives
  • A Pointless Attack on Liberty that Fuels the Terror Threat
    by Seumas Milne
    The Guardian
  • The Wiretap This Time
    by Studs Terkel
    New York Times
  • Why, Even If You Have Nothing to Hide, Government Surveillance Threatens Your Freedom
    by John W. Dean
    Findlaw.com
  • AT&T, Other Telecoms, Buy Victory in Lawsuits
    by Glenn Greenwald
    Salon.com
  • The Beltway Establishment's Contempt for the Rule of Law
    by Glenn Greenwald
    Salon.com
  • Spies, Lies and FISA
    Editorial
    New York Times
  • What FISA Capitulations Are Democrats Planning Next?
    by Glenn Greenwald
    Salon
  • Against a National ID
    Editorial
    Los Angeles Times
  • Restore Habeas, Restore Security
    by William H. Neukom
    Christian Science Monitor
  • Questions for Michael Mukasey
    by Nat Hentoff
    Washington Times
  • Are Democrats Planning Still Worse FISA Capitulations?
    by Glenn Greenwald
    Salon.com
  • State-Secret Overreach
    by Barry Siegel
    Los Angeles Times
  • A Brake on the Patriot Act
    Editorial
    San Francisco Chronicle
  • The CIA: On Top of Everything Else, Not Very Good at Its Job
    The Economist
  • Supreme Injustice
    by Bruce Fein
    Washington Times
  • Maybe We Could Have Done Without the CIA
    by Andrew Greeley
    Albany Times-Union
  • A Spooky Look at the CIA
    by Randy Dotinga
    Christian Science Monitor
  • Bush Hails Freedom, but Can He Handle a Lousy T-Shirt?
    Editorial
    USA Today
  • The Secret Policemen's Fall
    by Chris Petit
    The Guardian
  • Terrorizing Social Protest
    by Joanne Mariner
    Findlaw.com
  • It Takes Courage to Resist
    by Howard J. Blitz
    Yuma Sun
  • Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA
    by Geoffrey Wheatcroft
    London Times
  • Land of the Not-So-Free
    by Mark Honigsbaum
    The Guardian
  • Built-In Scandal Potential
    by Dan K. Thomasson
    Washington Times
  • Chasing Assassins
    by Matthew Stevenson
    Texas Observer
  • All Tapped Out on Civil Liberties?
    Editorial
    Boston Globe
  • The So-Called Protect America Act
    by John W. Dean
    Findlaw.com
  • Congress Creates Wiretap Catch-22
    by Marcy Wheeler
    The Guardian
  • Death of a Neighborhood
    by Matt Welch
    Los Angeles Times
  • In Bush We Trust -- Or Else
    by John Diaz
    San Francisco Chronicle
  • The President Is Threatening Me
    by Marie Marchand
    Seattle Post-Intelligencer
  • Answering to No One
    by Walter F. Mondale
    Washington Post
  • Martial Law Is Now a Real Threat
    by Dave Lindorff
    Counterpunch
  • Working for the Clampdown
    by James Bovard
    Z Magazine
  • Robert Higgs on the Perils of Trading Freedom for Safety (audio)
    by Robert Higgs with James Harris and Joshua Scheer
    Truthdig.com
  • Five Ways Bush's Era of Repression Has Stolen Your Liberties Since 9/11
    by Matthew Rothschild
    Alternet.org
  • Attack on a Fundamental Right
    by Roberta Cohen
    Washington Post
  • Orwellian Opinion
    by Bruce Fein
    Washington Times
  • Bush's Church-State Mess Takes Liberties with Ours
    by Robyn Blumner
    St. Petersburg Times
  • Targeting Dissent
    by Marjorie Cohn
    Counterpunch
  • Court Ruling Shows Free Speech Dilemma
    by Howard Blitz
    Yuma Sun
  • Videotaping Police
    by Radley Balko
    FOX News
  • I Used to Be a Book Burner
    by Inayat Bunglawala
    The Guardian
  • What News Media Don't Need: Government's Hand
    by Philip Meyer
    USA Today
  • A White House Plan to Erode Our Liberties
    by Aziz Huq
    The Nation
  • The War against Freedom
    by Erwin James
    The Guardian
  • Is Federal Real ID Act for Your Own Good? Not Really
    by Tim O'Brien
    Detroit Free Press
  • With Liberty and Bedroom Police for All
    by Leonard Pitts Jr.
    Detroit Free Press
  • Where FISA Reform Meets "1984"
    by Nat Hentoff
    Washington Times
  • Padilla Gets Day in Court, But Verdict on Bush Is In
    by Robyn Blumner
    St. Petersburg Times
  • Eliminate Intrusive Federal Identity Card
    by Peter Armstrong
    Detroit News
  • Uphold Historic Values
    Editorial
    USA Today
  • Would They Have Signed the Declaration?
    by Bruce Fein
    Washington Times
  • Unconstitutional Legislation Threatens Freedom
    by Ron Paul
    U.S. House of Representatives
  • COINTELPRO in NY
    by Nat Hentoff
    Village Voice
  • Torture, Secrecy, and the Bush Administration
    by Scott Horton
    Harper's
  • For Blair, It's Child's Play to Make Us All Criminals
    by Henry Porter
    The Guardian
  • Patriot Act Debacle
    by Gary Aldrich
    Washington Times
  • Tapping into Privacy
    by Robyn Blumner
    St. Petersburg Times
  • Abuse of Authority
    Editorial
    Washington Post
  • Padilla's Ordeal
    by Robert J. Inlow
    USA Today
  • Habeas Corpus
    by Robyn Blumner
    St. Petersburg Times
  • Eminent Domain Race Ripples
    by Mindy Fullilove
    Washington Times
  • The Jose Padilla Trial
    Editorial
    New York Times
  • Erosion of Civil Liberties Continues
    Editorial
    National Catholic Reporter
  • Rule of Law Crippled
    by Bruce Fein
    Washington Times
  • Testing the Line Between Despotism and a Free Society
    by Scot Lehigh
    Boston Globe
  • Restore Habeas Rights
    Editorial
    Los Angeles Times
  • Is This America?
    by Nat Hentoff
    Village Voice
  • Justice for the Forgotten Internees
    by Xavier Becerra and
    Dan Lungren
    Washington Post
  • Dixie Chicks Among Esteemed Outlaws
    by Ashley Sayeau
    Philadelphia Inquirer
  • Restoring a Right
    Editorial
    Washington Post
  • Privacy or Protection?
    by Bob Barr
    San Francisco Chronicle
  • The Courage of Others' Convictions
    Editorial
    New York Times
  • Another Rebuke
    by Bruce Fein
    In These Times
  • That's Called Thievery
    by Mark Stamm
    Washington Post
  • Property Rights
    by Walter E. Williams
    George Mason University
  • Wrong on Habeas Corpus
    by Nat Hentoff
    Washington Times
  • No Court Order Needed
    Editorial
    USA Today
  • A Blanket Ban on Holocaust Denial Would Be a Serious Mistake
    by Timothy Garton Ash
    Guardian
  • Get Government Out of Christmas
    by Howard J. Blitz
    Yuma Sun
  • Pentagon Papers Revisited
    Editorial
    Washington Post
  • Prisoners' Dilemma
    by Gerald J. Russello
    American Conservative
  • 'We the People'
    by Nat Hentoff
    Washington Times
  • Put Bush's Wiretaps on Hold
    Editorial
    St. Petersburg Times
  • Job No. 1 for Congress: Restoring Rights
    by G.W.Cox
    Washington Post
  • Property Theft in America
    by John Stossel
    Townhall.com
  • We Are Already at the Gates of the Surveillance Society
    by Henry Porter
    The Guardian
  • The Folly of Jailing Genocide Deniers
    by Garin K. Hovannisian
    Christian Science Monitor
  • How Socialist Policies Allow Rich to Further Their Own Interests
    by Thomas Sowell
    Detroit News
  • Stopping the Government's Property Grab
    by Roger Pilon
    Los Angeles Times
  • Junking Habeas Corpus
    by Greg Moses
    Counterpunch.org
  • The Further Dangers of Secrecy
    by Jennifer van Bergen
    FindLaw.com
  • A Judge Willing to Let a Leak Case Be Misused
    by Jesselyn Radack
    Washington Post
  • Property Rights Attacks Continue
    by Walter Williams
    George Mason University
  • Fair and Unfair Uses
    by Jon Healey
    Los Angeles Times
  • Privacy: A Right to Defend
    by Robert F. Drinan
    Boston Globe
  • Data Lapse Should Serve as a Warning
    by Les Garner
    Boston Globe
  • The Forgotten Detainee
    by JoAnne Mariner
    FindLaw.com
  • A Fixation with Secrecy
    Editorial
    New York Times
  • Espionage — Not Just for Spies Anymore
    Editorial
    Los Angeles Times
  • Trashing Privacy
    by Bob Barr
    Washington Times
  • Privacy: A Right to Defend
    by Robert F. Drinan
    Boston Globe
  • More Casualties of War
    Editorial
    Boston Globe
  • A More Secret Government?
    by Bruce Fein
    Washington Times
  • The Shameful Demise of Due Process
    by Ronald Sokol
    International Herald Tribune
  • State Must Protect Homeowners from Abuse
    Editorial
    Detroit News
  • Prisoners and Human Rights
    Editorial
    New York Times
  • Research for Secrecy Harms Right to Know
    Editorial
    Detroit Free Press
  • Finally, a Stop Sign for Bush
    by Leonard Pitts, Jr.
    Detroit Free Press
  • Wiretap Surrender
    Editorial
    Washington Post
  • License to Wiretap
    Editorial
    Los Angeles Times
  • Revealing the Road to "The Dark Side"
    by Scot Lehigh
    Boston Globe
  • What You Don't Know Can Hurt You
    by Nat Hentoff
    USA Today
  • One Year Later, Power to Seize Property Ripe for Abuse
    Editorial
    USA Today
  • Eviscerating the Law
    by Nat Hentoff
    Washington Times
  • The Government's Current War with the Free Press
    by Daniel Schorr
    Christian Science Monitor
  • Checks, Balances, and FOIA's 40th Anniversary
    by Stephen Gidiere
    USA Today
  • We Need Fewer Secrets
    by Jimmy Carter
    Washington Post
  • Avoiding Fireworks Over US Patriotism
    Editorial
    Christian Science Monitor
  • What We Love About America
    by James Carroll
    Boston Globe
  • Birthday Greetings for a Beauty
    by Suzanne Fields
    Washington Times
  • George Washington
    by Peter A. Lillback
    Washington Times
  • An Alert Press
    Editorial
    Washington Post
  • Court Signals Loosening of the Last Reins on Police
    by Robyn E. Blumner
    St. Petersburg Times
  • Surveillance of Financial Transactions Goes Too Far
    by James Bovard
    Baltimore Sun
  • An Assault on the Freedom of the Press
    by Robert Scheer
    San Francisco Chronicle
  • "Big Brother" Bush and Connecting the Data Dots
    by Jonathan Turley
    Los Angeles Times
  • Supreme Court Ruling on Police Raids Endangers Citizens
    by Radley Balko
    Fox News
  • Bush's Imperial Presidency
    by Nat Hentoff
    Washington Times
  • Secret Government or a Free Press?
    Editorial
    USA Today
  • Shredding a Constitutional Protection that Isn't Even Used
    by David Feige
    Los Angeles Times
  • Eminent-Domain Wars
    Editorial
    Washington Times
  • Flag Burning Redux
    Editorial
    Washington Post
  • Congress Nears Choice: Protect Freedom or Stoke Anger?
    Editorial
    USA Today
  • The Don't-Bother-to-Knock Rule
    Editorial
    New York Times
  • ACLU v. National Security Agency
    by John W. Dean
    Findlaw.com
  • Reach Out and Tap Someone
    by James Bovard
    American Conservative
  • Let Us All Praise the Dixie Chicks
    by Ralph Nader
    Counterpunch.org
  • Post-9/11 America Is Less a Land of the Free
    by Reva Rasmussen
    Minneapolis Star Tribune
  • Congress Legislating Our Rights Away
    by Helen Thomas
    Seattle Post-Intelligencer
  • What Backlash Against the Dixie Chicks?
    by Lee Ballinger
    Counterpunch
  • The War on Free Press
    by Derrick Z. Jackson
    Boston Globe
  • Official Secrets
    Editorial
    Washington Post
  • It Is Absurd to Calculate Human Rights According to a Cost-Benefit Analysis
    by Ronald Dworkin
    The Guardian
  • Nation of Suspects in the Land of the Free
    by Steve Chapman
    Baltimore Sun
  • Homing in on Our Privacy
    by Derrick Z. Jackson
    Boston Globe
  • The Lie Behind the Secrets
    by Tom Blanton
    Los Angeles Times
  • The Senate and the General
    Editorial
    New York Times
  • Phone Data Gathering Crosses a Line
    by Anthony Gregory
    San Diego Union-Tribune
  • Is America Becoming a Police State?
    by Justin Raimondo
    Antiwar.com
  • Bowing to the Police State
    by Ray McGovern
    TomPaine.com
  • Nation of Fear
    by Eugene Robinson
    Washington Post
  • Sacrifice Liberty for Security? Not Without a Fight
    by Jay Bookman
    Atlanta Journal-Constitution
  • Questions, and a History Refresher, for Gen. Hayden
    by Nat Hentoff
    USA Today
  • Down to the Fourth Estate
    by Jonathan Turley
    USA Today
  • A Government Out of Control
    Editorial
    San Francisco Chronicle
  • Assault on Separate Powers
    by Erwin Chemerinsky
    Charlotte Observer
  • NSA Has Your Phone Records; "Trust Us" Isn't Good Enough
    Editorial
    USA Today
  • The Spook in Your Phone
    by Robert Scheer
    The Nation
  • An Easy Call: Lying
    by Eugene Robinson
    Washington Post
  • Big Brother Watches Britain
    by Peter Hitchens
    American Conservative
  • Chilling Free Speech
    by Nat Hentoff
    Washington Times
  • Turn the Pages to 1984
    by H.D.S. Greenway
    Boston Globe
  • Obstacle to Eminent Domain Reform
    Editorial
    Boston Globe
  • High Court Sidesteps Duty
    Editorial
    Petosky News-Review
  • The High Court Bobs and Weaves
    Editorial
    Philadelphia Inquirer
  • An Update on Padilla
    by Onnesha Roychoudhuri
    Alternet.org
  • Plenty Harm; Plenty Foul
    Editorial
    Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
  • Disproving Darwin
    by Bruce Fein
    Washington Times
  • Cowardice on the Court
    Editorial
    San Francisco Chronicle
  • Put Up or Shut Up
    Editorial
    Cincinnati Post
  • President Is Not Above the Law
    Editorial
    Denver Post
  • Bush v. Constitution
    by Nat Hentoff
    Washington Times
  • Don't Sign Up to This Upside Down Hobbesian Contract
    by Karma Nabulsi
    The Guardian
  • Futile Gestures Offer Small Solace for Tomorrow's Judgment
    by Leonard Pitts Jr.
    Detroit Free Press
  • The President and the Courts
    Editorial
    New York Times
  • Secrecy Hides Accountability
    Editorial
    USA Today
  • Secrecy Grows More Common with War on Terror as Excuse
    Editorial
    USA Today
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    by Allan M. Jalon
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    by Charley Reese
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    by Pat M. Holt
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    by Brian Foley
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    Detroit Free Press
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    by Joseph Sobran
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    by Anne Applebaum
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    by Bruce Fein
    Washington Times
  • The War President
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    Detroit Free Press
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    Editorial
    Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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    Editorial
    Oakland Tribune
  • George W. Bush as the New Richard Nixon: Both Wiretapped Illegally, and Impeachably
    by John Dean
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    by Grant Doty
    Washington Post
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    by T.J. Rodgers
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    by Martin Garbus
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    by Ron Paul
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    by Jonathan Turley
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    by Bruce Schneier
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    by Thomas Oliphant
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  • Unauthorized Snooping
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    Editorial
    Boston Globe
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    Editorial
    Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
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    by Jonathan Alter
    Newsweek
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    Editorial
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    Editorial
    Los Angeles Times
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    USA Today
  • The Boundaries of
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    by Kal Raustiala
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    by Howard J. Blitz
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    by Richard D. Schmitt
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  • Jose Padilla's America
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    Editorial
    Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
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    by Marjorie Cohn
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    by Nat Hentoff
    Washington Times
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    Adam Liptak
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    USA Today
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    Steven Greenhut
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    by Anthony Lewis
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    by P. Sabin Willett
    Washington Post
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    by Robyn E. Blumner
    St. Petersburg Times
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    by Martin Quitt
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    by Michael Kinsley
    Washington Post
  • FBI May Be Checking on You, But You Have No Right to Know
    Editorial
    USA Today
  • Our Liberties Under Siege
    by Nat Hentoff
    Washington Times
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    by Nat Hentoff
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    by Michael Kinsley
    Washington Post
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    by Howard J. Blitz
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    by Paul Craig Roberts
    LewRockwell.com
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    by Bruce Fein
    Washington Times
  • Detainee Challenges "Combatant" Status
    by Richard A. Serrano
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    by Gene Healy
    Pennsylvania Centre Daily
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    by Susette Kelo
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    by Tom Gorman
    CounterPunch.org
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    Ashville Citizen-Times
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    Ft. Wayne Journal Gazette
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    LA Weekly
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    KurtNimmo.com
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    by Geoffrey R. Stone
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    by Robert D. Richards and
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    by Rosa Brooks
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    by Howard J. Blitz
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    by Chris Floyd
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    by Charlotte Allen
    Washington Post
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    by John Tierney
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  • Flouting Our Founding Fathers' Ideals
    by Marie Cocco
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    by Derek Maul
    Christian Science Monitor
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    USA Today
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    by Walter E. Williams
    George Mason University
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    USA Today
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    Washington Post
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    by Cathy Young
    Boston Globe
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    Editorial
    Washington Times
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    by George F. Will
    Washington Post
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    by Steve Chapman
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    by Bob Barr
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    by Daniel Schorr
    Christian Science Monitor
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    by Howard J. Blitz
    Yuma Sun
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    by Don Boudreaux vs. David Barro
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    McAllen Monitor
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    The Guardian
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    by Elaine Cassel
    FindLaw.com
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    by Joanne Mariner
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    Northern Star
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    Wilmington Star
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    by Robyn E. Blumner
    St. Petersburg Time
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    by William Hughes
    MediaMonitors.net
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    by Tom Crumpacker
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    by Howard J. Blitz
    Yuma Sun
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    by Ron Paul
    U.S. House of Representatives
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    by Henry Porter
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    by Rick Lynch
    Washington Times
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    by Howard J. Blitz
    Yuma Sun
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    by Nat Hentoff
    Village Voice
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    by Nat Hentoff
    Village Voice
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    by Geoffrey R. Stone
    Los Angeles Times
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    by Kevin Johnson
    USA Today
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    Common Dreams
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    by David Cole
    New York Review of Books
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    by Robyn E. Blumner
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    by Bob Barr
    Washington Times
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    American Conservative
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    by Kary Moss
    Detroit News
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    by Elaine Cassel
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    by Ann Woolner
    Bloomberg
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    by Bruce Fein
    Washington Times
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    by Howard J. Blitz
    Yuma Sun
  • Judicial Pushback
    Editorial
    Washington Post
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    by Anita Ramasastry
    FindLaw.com
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    by Robyn E. Blumner
    St. Petersburg Times
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    by Walter E. Williams
    George Mason University
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    by Howard J. Blitz
    Yuma Sun
  • Polygamy Laws Expose Our Own Hypocrisy
    by Jonathan Turley
    USA Today
  • Slow Justice for Hamdi
    Editorial
    Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
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    by Henry Silverman
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    Editorial
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    Editorial
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    by Ted Rall
    UExpress.com
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    by David Cole
    The Nation
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    by Howard J. Blitz
    Yuma Sun
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    by Penn Jillette
    Los Angeles Times
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    Editorial
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    by Walter Bernstein
    Los Angeles Times
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    by Noah Leavitt
    FindLaw.com
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    Editorial
    Los Angeles Times
  • Detroit Terrorism Case Shows Need for Civil Liberties
    Editorial
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    by Dan Eggen
    Washington Post
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    by Robert Garmong
    Ayn Rand Institute
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    by Bob Barr
    FindLaw.com
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    by Robert Samuelson
    Washington Post
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    by Robyn Blumner
    St. Petersburg Times
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    by Tom Maertens
    St. Paul Pioneer Press
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    by Adam Liptak
    New York Times
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    Baltimore Sun
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    by James Bovard
    New York Times
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    Paul Craig Roberts
    LewRockwell.com
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    by Martin Kettle
    The Guardian
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    by James Bovard
    Boston Globe
  • Crying Wolf in the War Against Terror
    by Andrew Cohen
    Los Angeles Times
  • The Hamdi Back Flip
    Editorial
    Washington Post
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    by Maher Abdallah
    The Guardian
  • Tyranny in the Name of Freedom
    by Dahlia Lithwick
    New York Times
  • Police State USA
    by Ron Paul
    U.S. House of Representatives
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    Editorial
    The Guardian
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    by Joe Honig
    Christian Science Monitor
  • Protests Pre-empted
    by James Bovard
    Baltimore Sun
  • Guantanamo Dawdle
    Editorial
    Los Angeles Times
  • How the Administration Is Obstructing the Supreme Court's Terror Decisions
    by Phillip Carter
    Slate
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    by George Monbiot
    The Guardian
  • Why I Am Scared to Death of George Bush--And Why You Should Be, Too
    by Elaine Cassel
    Civil Liberties Watch
  • We Knew We Weren't the Enemy
    by Robert R. Hosokawa
    Christian Science Monitor
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    by Tristram Hunt
    The Guardian
  • The Ghost Prisoners
    by Nat Hentoff
    Village Voice
  • The CIA's Prisoners
    Editorial
    Washington Post
  • Justice and the War on Terrorism: Extend High Court Rulings to All U.S. Detainees
    by Robert Gard and
    Deborah Pearlstein
    San Francisco Chronicle
  • When the Constitution Trumps the President
    by Nat Hentoff
    Washington Times
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    by Andrew Greeley
    Chicago Sun Times
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    by Robyn E. Blumner
    St. Petersburg Times
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    by David Cole
    The Nation
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    by Ron Paul
    U.S. House of Representatives
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    by Gordon Brown
    The Guardian
  • The Magna Carta
    National Archives
  • Court to Congress' Online Nannies: You're Fired, Again
    Editorial
    USA Today
  • China to Keep Tabs on Mobile Phone Messaging
    by Elaine Kurtenbach
    USA Today
  • The Tower of London: Instruments of Torture
    All Info About London
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    Editorial
    Cincinnati Post
  • Even a Tyrant Is Entitled to Due Process
    by Robert Scheer
    Los Angeles Times
  • Disappearing Prisoners
    by Nat Hentoff
    Village Voice
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    Editorial
    Cincinnati Post
  • Prudent Check on Detentions
    Editorial
    Christian Science Monitor
  • A Near Miss for Key Rights
    by Jonathan Turley
    Los Angeles Times
  • The Court v. Bush
    by Anthony Lewis
    New York Times
  • Role Reversal
    by Paul Craig Roberts
    LewRockwell.com
  • It's Called Democracy
    Editorial
    Los Angeles Times
  • Reaffirming the Rule of Law
    Editorial
    New York Times
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    Editorial
    Washington Post
  • Rulings on Prisoners Would Make Founders Proud
    Editorial
    USA Today
  • We All Lose if Cops Have All the Power
    by Larry Dudley Hiibel
    Los Angeles Times
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    Editorial
    Washington Post
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    Editorial
    Daytona Beach News-Journal
  • No More Roundups
    by David Cole
    Washington Post
  • Trial by News Conference? No Justice in That
    by Scott Turow
    Washington Post
  • From Bush, Saddam-Style Justice
    by Howard Gleckman
    Business Week
  • Proof, Negative: The Justice Department's Triumph Over the Constitution
    by Dahlia Lithwick
    MSNBC
  • No Defense Possible
    Editorial
    Washington Post
  • The Rule of Law Must Not Rest with a Leader
    Editorial
    Allentown Times
  • You Have Rights -- if Bush Says You Do
    by Jonathan Turley
    Los Angeles Times
  • It's Not the American Way
    by Richard Cohen
    Washington Post
  • Padilla's Plots Don't Negate His Rights
    Editorial
    Rocky Mountain News
  • Holding Defendants Without Charges
    by Terence Young, Ken Goldman, and Michael Klein
    Los Angeles Times
  • Jose Padilla, Citizen
    Editorial
    Boulder Daily Camera
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    by Marie Cocco
    Newsday
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    Editorial
    Newsday
  • Pre-Empting the Bill of Rights: The Other War, One Year Later
    by Elaine Cassel
    Counterpunch.org
  • The Seeds of a Rights Scandal in Iraq
    by Jimmy Carter
    Washington Post
  • Shredding the Magna Carta
    Editorial
    The Progressive
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    by Linda Greenhouse
    New York Times
  • In Abu Ghraib, a Wake-Up Call: Our Own Democracy Is in Danger
    by Garrett Epps
    The Oregonian
  • Endless Detentions,
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    by William Hughes
    MediaMonitors.net
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    by James Ottavio Castagnera
    Zwire.com
  • Fighting for Free Speech Means Fighting for … Howard Stern
    by Adam Cohen
    New York Times
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    by T.J. Aulds
    Texas City Sun
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    Editorial
    Macon Telegraph
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    by Timothy Lynch
    Cato Institute
  • Can the President Imprison Anyone, Forever?
    by Gene Healy
    Cato Institute
  • How Far Above the Law?
    Editorial
    Daytona Beach News-Journal
  • America's Prisoners, American Rights
    by David Cole
    New York Times
  • Campaign Reform as Gag Rule
    by Robyn E. Blumner
    St. Petersburg Times
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    by John Lott, Jr.
    The Australian
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    by Murray Polner
    Newsday
  • Terror War's Legal Costs
    by Paul Craig Roberts
    Antiwar.com
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    Editorial
    Washington Times
  • Right to Privacy or Protection from Terrorists
    by Shannon Baldwin
    Rocky Mountain Collegian
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    by Charles Cutter
    Magic City Morning Star
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    by Frank Pierson
    Los Angeles Times
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    by John W. Whitehead
    Rutherford Institute
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    By Nat Hentoff
    The Progressive
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    by Floyd J. McKay
    Seattle Times
  • Detaining the "Enemy," Diluting the Law
    by D. Mark Jackson
    Washington Post
  • Dangerous Veil of Secrecy
    Editorial
    Los Angeles Times
  • Official Secrecy Helps Terrorists Undermine Democracy
    by Douglas Lee
    First Amendment Center
  • Supreme Court Showdown
    by Matthew Rothschild
    The Progressive
  • Hamdi, Padilla, and Hussein
    Editorial
    Palm Beach Post
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    Editorial
    Florida Today
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    by Elaine Cassel
    CounterPunch.org
  • Courts Must Defend Civil Liberties
    Editorial
    Florida Today
  • Time to Take Rights Seriously
    by Judd Legum
    Center for American Progress
  • A "Bad Guy" in a Bad Time
    by David Sarasohn
    The Oregonian
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    by James Bovard
    San Francisco Chronicle
  • Our Right to Be Left Alone
    by Robyn E. Blumner
    St. Petersburg Times
  • Victory for the Constitution
    Editorial
    Buffalo News
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    Editorial
    Detroit News
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    by Sam Stanton and Emily Bazar
    Sacramento Bee
  • Battlefield Chicago?
    by Joanne Mariner
    Findlaw.com
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    Editorial
    Pittsburgh Post Gazette
  • Courts Put a Dent in Bush’s “Say-So” Detentions
    by David Cole
    Los Angeles Times
  • Twice Wrong
    Editorial
    Newsday
  • Civil Liberties, 3, Attorney General, 0
    Editorial
    The Mercury News
  • Fair Check on Presidential Power
    Editorial
    The Oregonian
  • Courts Draw Line on Civil Liberties
    Editorial
    San Francisco Chronicle
  • Muzzling Speech
    by Robert J. Samuelson
    Washington Post
  • Illegal Seizure
    Editorial
    St. Petersburg Times
  • Jose Padilla: A Constitutional Challenge for Us All
    by Brigid O'Neil
    Independent Institute
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    by James Bovard
    American Conservative
  • The Padilla Decision
    Editorial
    New York Times
  • Look to Law, Not Leaders
    Editorial
    Los Angeles Times
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    by Jacob Sullum
    Washington Times
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    Editorial
    Washington Times
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    by Walter E. Williams
    George Mason University
  • Judges and Judgment
    by Thomas Sowell
    Washington Times
  • A Voice for Hamdi
    Editorial
    Baltimore Sun
  • Not Good Enough
    Editorial
    Washington Post
  • Patriot Act's Gag Order Deserves Legal Scrutiny
    Editorial
    Detroit News
  • Gulag Americana
    by Elaine Cassel
    Counterpunch.org
  • Patriot Act Author Has Concerns
    by Richard B. Schmitt
    Los Angeles Times
  • Constitutional Rights Not Optional
    Editorial
    Atlanta Journal-Constitution
  • "Enemy Combatant" Sham
    Editorial
    New York Times
  • 60 Years On, Again Battling an Abomination of Power
    by Jonathan Turley
    Los Angeles Times
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    by Clarence Page
    Salt Lake Tribune
  • Corrupting the Patriot Act
    by Editorial
    Orange County Register
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    by Elaine Cassel and Noah Leavitt
    Babelogue.com
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    Editorial
    Albuquerque Tribune
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    by Joanne Mariner
    FindLaw
  • Why We Should Fear the Matrix
    by Anita Ramasastry
    CNN
  • The Supreme Court and Sept. 11
    Editorial
    New York Times
  • Court Should Provide Some Clarity
    Editorial
    Rocky Mountain News
  • The New Inquisition
    by Walter Cronkite
    Denver Post
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    by Robyn E. Blumner
    St. Petersburg Times
  • How States Fall and Liberty Triumphs
    by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.
    LewRockwell.com
  • Give Them Libertarianism, and a Moving Van
    by Seth Stern
    Christian Science Monitor
  • Students, Nuns and Sailor-Mongers, Beware
    by Jonathan Turley
    Los Angeles Times
  • No Pause in Patriot Act Pounding
    by Robyn E. Blumner
    St. Petersburg Times
  • Lawyers' Play Is a History Lesson Touching on Today's Events
    by John Strauss
    Indianapolis Star
  • Letting Guard Down Would Allow Bush to Take Away Rights and Liberties for Good
    by Timothy Lynch
    Detroit News
  • Lawyers' Play is a History Lesson Touching on Today's Events
    by John Strauss
    Indianapolis Star
  • Letting Guard Down Would Allow Bush to Take Away Rights and Liberties for Good
    by Timothy Lynch
    Detroit News
  • Bush's Vanished Prisoner
    by Nat Hentoff
    Village Voice
  • White House Squanders Safeguards
    by Brigid O'Neil
    Detroit News
  • Shopping for an Execution
    by Geov Parrish
    WorkingforChange.com
  • Shock and Awe in the Moussaoui Case: Judge Brinkema Drops a Bomb
    by Elaine Cassel
    Babelogue
  • Privacy Becomes a Casualty
    by Bob Barr
    Detroit News
  • Driving Dangerously with the Patriot Act
    by Pat M. Holt
    Christian Science Monitor
  • Military Tribunals Challenge America's Legal Tradition
    Editorial
    Detroit News
  • Is the War on Terror Compromising Our Liberty? (A review of Bovard’s “Terror and Terrorism”)
    by Vincent J. Cannato
    Washington Post
  • U.S. Uses Terror Law to Pursue Crimes From Drugs to Swindling
    by Eric Lichtblau
    New York Times
  • Telemarketer Terrorists?
    Editorial
    Los Angeles Times
  • Ashcroft Is Unprintable, and Glad of It
    by Todd Gitlin and Jay Rosen
    Los Angeles Times
  • Bush's Tame U.S. Media May Yet Have Teeth
    by Eric Margolis
    Toronto Sun
  • Patriot Act, Part II
    Editorial
    New York Times
  • Patriot Act Heightens Assault on Civil Liberties
    Editorial
    Detroit News
  • Free State Balloting Project Continues
    by Kate McCann
    Washington Post
  • What If They Held an Election and No One Ran?
    by Michael Falcone
    New York Times
  • Protect Freedom's Safeguards
    by Nolan Finley
    Detroit News
  • Key Legal Shields Forfeited in War on Terrorism
    Editorial
    Detroit News
  • Eminent Remains: The Buried Legacy of the Original Ground Zero
    by Gary North
    LewRockwell.com
  • A PATRIOT Act's Assault on the Bill of Rights
    by Brigid O'Neil
    Independent.org
  • Americans Must Hold Tight to Freedom
    by Nolan Finley
    Detroit News
  • Citizens Need to Protect the Bill of Rights
    by Kary L. Moss
    Detroit News
  • Mexican Town Foregoes Law for Order
    by Kevin Sullivan
    Washington Post
  • Ashcroft on Tour, and Unplugged
    by Dante Chinni
    Christian Science Monitor
  • In Virginia City, a Lode of Comstock Lore
    by Susan James
    Los Angeles Times
  • Trust Us, We're the Government
    by Rep. Ron Paul
    U.S. House of Representatives
  • Ashcroft's Road Show
    Editorial
    Dayton News Journal
  • An Unpatriotic Act
    Editorial
    New York Times
  • A Tiny Town Shouts “Whoa!” to Patriot Act
    by Ron C. Judd
    Seattle Times
  • Ashcroft’s Lack of Credibility
    by Charley Reese
    King Features Syndicate
  • Jose Padilla: No Charges and No Trial, Just Jail
    by Robert A. Levy
    Cato Institute
  • Bush, Ashcroft Are Robbing Suspects of Civil Rights
    Editorial
    Advocate
  • Liberties Groups Slam Ashcroft's PATRIOT Act 'Roadshow'
    by Jeff Johnson
    CNSNews.com
  • Highly Watchable
    by Jacob Sullum
    Reason
  • Brother John's Traveling Patriot Salvation Show
    by Elaine Cassel
    Babelogue
  • Ideal vs. Practice
    Editorial
    Lebanon Daily News
  • America Fights for Freedom to Read
    by James Bovard
    Baltimore Sun
  • Curb FBI's Excessive Access
    by Anita Ramasastry
    Seattle Post-Intelligencer
  • Make Way for the Mall: A Principled Look at Eminent Domain
    by Amy Vroom
    Acton Institute
  • Bush's Tactics in Terror Case Called Illegal
    by Greg Sargent
    New York Observer
  • Strange Bedfellows: What the ACLU and NRA Have in Common
    by Matt Larson
    InTheseTimes.com
  • Who Will Rein in John Ashcroft?
    by Elaine Cassel
    Twin Cities Babelogue
  • Authority Deficit
    by Jacob Sullum
    Washington Times
  • You Call This Justice?
    by Elaine Cassel
    Babelogue.com
  • Who Made George W. Bush Our King?
    by Nat Hentoff
    Village Voice
  • Joe Padilla's Lawyers: Fighting for Principle
    by Elaine Cassel
    Babelogue
  • Cato Institute Amicus Brief in Padilla Habeas Corpus Appeal (pdf format)
    Cato Institute
  • Prosecuting Terror: No Choice But Guilty
    by Michael Powell
    Washington Post
  • Prosecuting Terror: Enemy Combatant Vanishes Into a "Legal Black Hole"
    by Paula Span
    Washington Post
  • Learning to Love Big Brother
    by Daniel Kurtzman
    San Francisco Chronicle
  • The Trial of Zacarias Moussaoui
    Editorial
    New York Times
  • Ashcroft's Folly
    by Dahlia Lithwick
    Slate
  • Homeland Security Sales Pitch
    by William Raspberry
    Washington Post
  • Dangerous Detentions
    Editorial
    Los Angeles Times
  • Civil Liberties Mustn't Be a Victim of War on Terror
    Editorial
    Atlanta Constitution-Journal
  • Careful: The FB-Eye May be Watching
    by Marc Schultz
    CreativeLoafing.com
  • "Enemy Combatants" Cast into a Constitutional Hell
    by Andrew P. Napolitano
    Los Angeles Times
  • Ashcroft's Secrecy
    Editorial
    St. Petersburg Times
  • Suspect Is Declared an Enemy Combatant
    by Josh Meyer
    Los Angeles Times
  • Indefensible Secrecy
    Editorial
    Washington Post
  • Patriot Act Is Dangerous
    by Ellen Taylor
    Los Angeles Times
  • Overreaching Justice
    Editorial
    Miami Herald
  • Liberty is Security
    by William Raspberry
    Washington Post
  • Ashcroft's America (con't)
    Editorial
    St. Petersburg Times
  • As a Dam Closes, Chinese Tally Gain and Loss
    by Erik Eckholm
    New York Times
  • "Fair" Trial Will Be a Travesty in Terror Cases
    by Marie Cocco
    Newsday.com
  • Spreading Mischief from DoJ to the Federal Bench
    by Elaine Cassel
    Counterpunch.org
  • Terror Suspect Stashed in S.C. "Black Hole"
    by Shannon McCaffrey
    South Carolina State
  • The Government Wants Your Rights
    Editorial
    Wilmington Star
  • Ashcroft's America
    Editorial
    St. Petersburg Times
  • Big Brother by Another Name
    Charles Levendosky
    Pioneer Press
  • T.I.A.
    by Mark Fiore
    MarkFiore.com
  • Philadelphia Council Condemns Patriot Act
    Reuters
  • 100th Civil Liberties Safe Zone
    by Nat Hentoff
    Village Voice
  • Your Rights: Use 'Em or Lose 'Em
    by Rachel Neumann
    Alternet.org
  • Court Gives Leeway to Interrogate
    David G. Savage
    Los Angeles Times
  • The Patriot Act has Outworn Its Welcome
    Editorial
    Honolulu Advertiser
  • Is America a Police State?
    by Rep. Ron Paul
    U.S. House of Representatives
  • Surveillance State
    by James Bovard
    The American Conservative
  • Your Bill of Rights Repealed
    by John David Rose
    Carolina Morning News
  • Bringing the War Home
    by Robert Dreyfuss (The Nation)
    Common Dreams News Center
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    by Robyn E. Blumner
    St. Petersburg Times
  • Enemies of the State
    Editorial
    Los Angeles Times
  • Broad Domestic Role Asked for C.I.A. and the Pentagon
    by Eric Lichtblau and James Risen
    New York Times
  • Patriot Act II's Attack on Citizenship
    by Joanne Mariner
    Counterpunch.org
  • Librarians Writing Their Own Chapter on Guarding Rights
    Editorial
    The Mercury News
  • The Classical Definition of a Police State
    by Robyn Blumner
    Ft. Worth Star Telegram
  • A Day in Court for Maher Hawash
    Editorial
    The Oregonian
  • Brave New World GOP Seeks to Create Looks Nothing Like America
    by Levi Harris
    Indiana Statesman
  • The Bush Administration and the End of Civil Liberties
    by Elaine Cassel
    Counterpunch.org
  • Dangerous Deal Breaking
    by Editorial
    St. Petersburg Times
  • Ashcroft: “I’ve Got New Ideas for Homeland Security!”
    by Ben Sargent
    Ucomics.com
  • Protecting Civil Liberties is How a True Patriot Acts
    Editorial
    Atlanta Journal-Constitution
  • Stop Sending Cubans Back to Castro's Gulag
    by Ivan G. Osorio
    National Review
  • A Second Chance to Reclaim Civil Liberties
    Editorial
    Virginia Pilot
  • Local Officials Rise Up to Defy the Patriot Act
    by Evelyn Nieves
    Washington Post
  • Cuba Unmasks Spies Among Dissidents
    Associated Press
    ABC News
  • Denver to Halt "Spy Files" on Peaceful Organizers
    Reuters
  • Smuggling Away Liberty
    Editorial
    San Francisco Chronicle
  • New Patriot Act Creates Uproar, Brings Together Uncommon Allies
    by Michelle Mittelstadt
    Seattle Times
  • Guilty Until Proven Innocent
    by Declan McCullagh
    C/NetNews
  • War Victim Fears Repeat
    by Carlos Morales
    Chicago Tribune
  • Into a Black Hole: Hamdi, Enemy Combatants, and the Shredding of Constitutional Rights
    by Joanne Mariner
    CounterPunch.org
  • PATRIOT Act II: New Anti-Terrorism Bill Threatens Civil Liberties
    Editorial
    Pioneer Press
  • Conservative Backlash
    by Dean Schabner
    ABC News
  • Librarians Use Shredder to Show Opposition to New F.B.I. Powers
    by Dean E. Murphy
    New York Times
  • Detention Without End (Cont'd)
    Editorial
    Washington Post
  • Terrorism Task Force Detains an American without Charges
    by Timothy Egan
    New York Times
  • The British Traded Rights for Security Too
    by Laura K. Donahue
    Washington Post
  • Is Our Greatest Threat from Within or Without?
    Editorial
    Honolulu Advertiser
  • PATRIOT Act II: New Anti-Terrorism Bill Threatens Civil Liberties
    Editorial
    Pioneer Press
  • It was a Good Day for the 6th Amendment
    Editorial
    New Jersey Record
  • Power Grab II
    Editorial
    Baltimore Sun
  • National Security Paradise
    by Dan Carpenter
    Indianapolis Star
  • The Danger of "War and Peace"
    by Pat Oliphant
    Ucomics.com
  • The Slippery Slope
    by Ann Telnaes
    Ucomics.com
  • Marbury v. Madison v. Ashcroft
    by Anthony Lewis
    New York Times
  • Ashcroft to Ashes
    by Paul Conrad
    Ucomics.com
  • Liberty Crisis
    Editorial
    St. Petersburg Times
  • Patriot II: The Sequel: Why It's Even Scarier than the First Patriot Act
    by Anita Ramasastry
    FindLaw.com
  • If at First You Don't Succeed
    by Stuart Carlson
    Ucomics.com
  • A Dreadful Act II
    by Jack M. Balkin
    Los Angeles Times
  • If You Liked Patriot Act I, Don't Miss the Sequel
    by Robyn E. Blumner
    St. Petersburg Times
  • Terror Alert
    by Ben Sargent
    Ucomics.com
  • Detaining 'Enemy Combatants'
    Editorial
    New York Times
  • Legal Group Opposes Enemy Combatant Policy
    by Gail Appleson -- Reuters
    ABCNews.com
  • Rhetoric, Rubber-Stamping, and "Meaningful Review"
    by Joanne Mariner
    FindLaw.com
  • Justice Dept. Draft on Wider Powers Draws Quick Criticism
    by Adam Clymer
    New York Times
  • Unfocused Data Mining
    Editorial
    St. Petersburg Times
  • Abducted to America
    by Shawn McHale
    Washington Post
  • The Internment of Japanese Americans: 60 Years Later
    by James Zogby
    Gulf News
  • Doublespeak and Internment: "Let It Not Happen Again"
    by Kate Riley
    Seattle Times
  • Bush Administration to Propose System for Monitoring Internet
    by John Markoff and John Schwartz
    New York Times
  • Has Big Brother Arrived, and Is He Watching Us?
    by James Heaney
    Buffalo News
  • We’ll All Be Under Surveillance
    by Nat Hentoff
    Village Voice
  • White House Steps Over the Line
    by Helen Thomas
    Seattle Post-Intelligencer
  • Back, But Not by Popular Demand
    by David Greenberg
    Washington Post
  • Why Civil Libertarians Are Uneasy
    by Robert A. Levy
    Washington Times

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