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Tuesday, May 16, 2006
Lesbian Can Seek Parental Rights
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The Supreme Court said Monday it would not block a lesbian from seeking parental rights to a child she helped raise with her longtime partner.
The justices have never dealt with the rights of gays in child custody disputes, although state courts are handling a growing number of legal fights.
Tuesday, May 16, 2006
Displaced Gain Sway in New Orleans Vote
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This city's thousands of displaced residents, virtually ignored by the candidates since the primary election for mayor last month, nonetheless appear set to play a significant role in Saturday's runoff vote -- and one that could provide a boost for Mayor C. Ray Nagin.
Election officials say that if current trends continue all week, the share of the vote by evacuees in the runoff will be larger than in last month's primary.
Tuesday, May 16, 2006
NSA Whistleblower To Allege Unlawful Acts, Name Hayden
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NSA whistleblower Russ Tice says he will tell Congress Wednesday of "probable unlawful and unconstitutional acts" involving the agency's former director, Gen. Michael Hayden, President Bush's nominee to run the CIA.
Tuesday, May 16, 2006
FBI Acknowledges: Journalists' Phone Records are Fair Game
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Officials say a new provision of the Patriot Act which allows agents to seek information with what are called National Security Letters (NSL), a version of an administrative subpoena not signed by a judge. Under the law, a phone company receiving a NSL for phone records must provide them and may not divulge to the customer that the records have been given to the government.
Tuesday, May 16, 2006
Federal Air Marshals' Bosses Accused of Arrogance, Cover-Up
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A damning investigation of the Federal Air Marshal program is set to be released by Congress next week, staffers tell ABC News.
"The attitude of this agency has stinks," the Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, Jim Sensenbrenner adding that officials of the Air Marshal program "stonewalled" his staff and retaliated against air marshals who tried to reveal problems.
Tuesday, May 16, 2006
Freedom of the Press Under Attack: Government Begins Tracking Phone Calls of Journalists
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ABC News reported on Monday that a senior federal law enforcement had revealed that the government is now tracking phone calls made by journalists from the New York Times, Washington Post and ABC News. We speak with Brian Ross, chief investigative reporter at ABC News who helped break the story and his being tapped himself. [includes rush transcript]
Tuesday, May 16, 2006
More On Government Tracing Journalists' Calls
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ABC News' claim that the government is tracing reporters' calls, first reported yesterday on an ABC News blog, just got a little bit stronger.
Former CIA counterterrorism chief Vincent Cannistraro told the New York Sun that "the FBI is monitoring calls of a number of news organizations as part of this leak investigation. It is going on. It is widespread and it may entail more than those three media outlets."
Tuesday, May 16, 2006
Bush's Lips are Moving So We Know He's Lying - Patriot Act Used to Tap Reporters
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Patriot Act is being used for more -- much more -- than "tracking terrorists." It is being thoroughly abused to track -- pardon, "backtrack" -- the phone records of everyday mainstream reporters. Not only is it being used to "track" phone records of reporters' but, too, more than 200 MILLION AMERICANS
