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CIVIL LIBERTIES


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  • 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
  • The Secret Government
    by A. John Radsan
    Jurist
  • Still Secret After All These Years
    by Michael Dobbs
    Washington Post
  • If Judges Won't Stand Up to Bush, Who Will?
    by Robyn E. Blumner
    St. Petersburg Times
  • Dictatorship Is the Danger
    by Jonathan Raban
    The Guardian
  • The War Against Dr. King
    by Ralph R. Reiland
    Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
  • Bin Laden's Driver Gets Day in Court, an Opportunity Missed
    Editorial
    USA Today
  • The Law vs. the Government
    Editorial
    Los Angeles Times
  • A September 11 Stand-In
    by Joanne Mariner
    Findlaw.com
  • The Death of the Intelligence Panel
    Editorial
    New York Times
  • A Break-In to End All Break-Ins
    by Allan M. Jalon
    Los Angeles Times
  • Patriot Act "Compromise" Trades Liberty for Security
    Editorial
    USA Today
  • Freedom of Hate Speech
    by Jeff Jacoby
    Boston Globe
  • War Is Not an Excuse to Violate Rights
    by Howard Blitz
    Yuma Sun
  • Attention, Library Patrons, While We Check Your Computer Screen
    by Leonard Pitts Jr.
    Detroit Free Press
  • How Soon Spying Abuses Forgotten
    by James Bovard
    Orange County Register
  • Eminent Domain Arm Twists
    by Jacob Sullum
    Washington Times
  • Hold On to Your Homes
    by Scott Bullock and Dana Berliner
    Washington Times
  • Free Speech, Even If It Hurts
    by Michael Shermer
    Los Angeles Times
  • "Enemy Combatant" in the U.S. Remains in Legal Limbo
    by Andrew Zajac
    Baltimore Sun
  • Our Freedom Is at Stake
    by Chris Huhne
    The Guardian
  • Another Government Taking
    by Debra J. Saunders
    Washington Times
  • Legal Battle Plods Along for "Enemy Combatant"
    by Andrew Zajac
    Mercury News
  • Bogus Rights
    by Walter E. Williams
    George Mason University
  • Security Secrets
    Editorial
    Boston Globe
  • How Do They Know Who Is a Terrorist?
    by Charley Reese
    Antiwar.com
  • Corporate Courage
    by Walter E. Williams
    George Mason University
  • Justifying America's "Big Ear"
    by Daniel Schorr
    Christian Science Monitor
  • A Legal Defense of Russell Tice, the Whistleblower Who Revealed the President's Authorization of NSA's Warrantless Domestic Wiretapping
    by Jesselyn Radack
    Findlaw.com
  • To Spread Democracy Abroad, Respect the Law at Home
    by Pat M. Holt
    Christian Science Monitor
  • The Real Danger of Presidential Spying
    by Brian Foley
    The Jurist
  • Twist of Directive Signals
    by Bruce Fein
    Washington Times
  • Spies, Lies and Wiretaps
    Editorial
    New York Times
  • Arrogance of Power
    Editorial
    San Francisco Chronicle
  • NSA Spying Scandal
    Editorial
    Daytona Beach News-Journal
  • I'm Feeling … Surveilled
    by Eugene Robinson
    Washington Post
  • You've Got Jail!
    by Robert Scheer
    San Francisco Chronicle
  • The Pentagon Papers and Government Surveillance
    by Edwin A. Lane
    Boston Globe
  • The President's End Run
    Editorial
    Washington Post
  • "Victims of the Darkness"
    by Nat Hentoff
    Washington Times
  • Gore's Challenge
    by David Broder
    Washington Post
  • Gore Is Right
    by Paul Craig Roberts
    LewRockwell.com
  • Spying on Ordinary Americans
    Editorial
    New York Times
  • Someone to Watch Over You
    by William Rees-Mogg
    London Times
  • Blaming the Messenger
    Editorial
    St. Petersburg Times
  • Investigating the NSA
    by Nat Hentoff
    Washington Times
  • The Bugs in Our System
    by Morgan Cloud
    New York Times
  • You're Being Watched….
    by Laura K. Donahue
    Los Angeles Times
  • Expanding Presidential Powers
    by Nat Hentoff
    Washington Times
  • Fear and Loathing of Freedom in the White House
    by Leonard Pitts Jr.
    Detroit Free Press
  • None Dare Call It Hypocritical
    by Joseph Sobran
    Sobran's
  • Hollow Rhetoric on 'Rule of Law'
    by Anne Applebaum
    Washington Post
  • If Men Were Angels
    by Bruce Fein
    Washington Times
  • The War President
    Editorial
    Detroit Free Press
  • Government Spying: Don't Tread on Us
    Editorial
    Seattle Post-Intelligencer
  • Bush Should Put an End to Domestic Spying Program
    Editorial
    Detroit News
  • Taking Liberties
    Editorial
    The Guardian
  • Big Brother Is Watching
    Editorial
    Oakland Tribune
  • George W. Bush as the New Richard Nixon: Both Wiretapped Illegally, and Impeachably
    by John Dean
    Findlaw.com
  • I'm a Soldier, Not a Spy
    by Grant Doty
    Washington Post
  • British, U.S. Spying Draws Us Closer To Orwell's Big Brother
    by T.J. Rodgers
    San Jose Mercury-News
  • Police-State Powers Are Our Biggest Threat
    by Martin Garbus
    New York Observer
  • Domestic Surveillance and the Patriot Act
    by Ron Paul
    U.S. House of Representatives
  • The Agency That Could Be Big Brother
    by James Bamford
    New York Times
  • Bush and Domestic Spying: A Threat to Our Principles
    by Jonathan Turley
    USA Today
  • Unchecked Presidential Power
    by Bruce Schneier
    Minneapolis Star Tribune
  • Bush's Wartime Dictatorship
    by Justin Raimondo
    Antiwar.com
  • Imperial Assumptions
    by Eugene Robinson
    Washington Post
  • An Insidious Culture of Surveillance
    by Thomas Oliphant
    Los Angeles Times
  • Unauthorized Snooping
    Editorial
    Washington Post
  • Editor in Chief
    Editorial
    Los Angeles Times
  • Taking Liberties
    Editorial
    Boston Globe
  • Big Brother Bush
    Editorial
    Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
  • Bush's Snoopgate
    by Jonathan Alter
    Newsweek
  • Spying on Americans
    Editorial
    Washington Post
  • This Call May Be Monitored
    Editorial
    New York Times
  • Bigger Brother
    Editorial
    Los Angeles Times
  • Want to Snoop on Americans? Get a Court Order
    Editorial
    USA Today
  • The Boundaries of
    the Bill of Rights
    by Kal Raustiala
    Los Angeles Times
  • Bill of Rights Really
    List of Limits
    by Howard J. Blitz
    Yuma Sun
  • Sidestepping Courts in the War on Terrorism
    by Richard D. Schmitt
    Los Angeles Times
  • Jose Padilla's America
    Editorial
    Los Angeles Times
  • Out of the Brig: Padilla Case Is Warning to All Americans
    Editorial
    Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
  • Bush Game on Padilla May Backfire
    by Marjorie Cohn
    Truthout.org
  • Gitmo Detainees and the Courts
    by Nat Hentoff
    Washington Times
  • Don't Drop Padilla Case
    Editorial
    Newsday
  • Still Searching for a Strategy Four Years after Sept. 11 Attacks
    Adam Liptak
    New York Times
  • Um, About that Dirty Bomb?
    Editorial
    New York Times
  • Three Years Too Late. U.S. Finally Gives Padilla Day in Court
    Editorial
    USA Today
  • Against the Tide
    Steven Greenhut
    Orange County Register
  • Individual vs. State Clear Now
    by Howard J. Blitz
    Yuma Sun
  • Patriot Threat
    Editorial
    Detroit Free Press
  • Return of the Patriot Act
    Editorial
    New York Times
  • Prisoners of the Senate
    by Anthony Lewis
    New York Times
  • Who Knows on Padilla
    Editorial
    Newsday
  • Detainees Deserve Court Trials
    by P. Sabin Willett
    Washington Post
  • National Security Letters Put Privacy at Risk
    by Robyn E. Blumner
    St. Petersburg Times
  • The Constitution and Privacy
    by Martin Quitt
    Boston Globe
  • Who Loves Freedom More?
    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
  • A Flawed Reading of the Constitution
    by Nat Hentoff
    Washington Times
  • Whose Speech Is Free?
    by Michael Kinsley
    Washington Post
  • The Dying, Not the Feds, Deserve Final Say on Life
    Editorial
    USA Today
  • Top 10 Ways to Reclaim Liberty
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