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Bush Administration Weighed Restricting 1st Amendment

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The October 2001 memo suggested the president could even suspend press freedoms if he concluded it was necessary to wage the war on terror. This claim was viewed as so extreme that it was essentially (and secretly) revokedà ‚¬"but not until October of last year, seven years after the memo was written and with barely three and a half months left in the Bush administration.
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Joan Brunwasser is a co-founder of Citizens for Election Reform (CER) which since 2005 existed for the sole purpose of raising the public awareness of the critical need for election reform. Our goal: to restore fair, accurate, transparent, secure elections where votes are cast in private and counted in public. Because the problems with electronic (computerized) voting systems include a lack of (more...)
 

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