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Senate Hears Testimony On Torture Policy
A key Senate subcommittee is set to hear testimony today on the torture policies of the Bush administration. The hearing, to be held by the Senate Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Administrative Oversight and the
Read More »Populism is Not a Style, It’s a People’s Rebellion Against Corporate Power
When I lived in Washington, DC, in the 1970s, I got a call from a friend of mine who worked for the Congressional Research Service–a legislative agency that digs up facts, prepares briefing papers,
Read More »How Americans Came to Support Torture, in Five Steps
By Roy Eidelson | In recent weeks, new revelations about the harsh interrogation and torture of detainees during the Bush administration years have made headlines and stirred controversy. The positions of prominent advocates and
Read More »Freedom of information not as it should be
THERE ARE serious problems in the law regarding the freedom to access documents at the Public Records Office (PRO), the House Human Rights Committee heard yesterday. Speaking after the session, the Justice Ministry’s Permanent
Read More »Google’s Street View rejected in Greece over privacy
A privacy watchdog has banned Google Inc. from gathering detailed, street-level images in Greece for a planned expansion of its panoramic Street View mapping service until the company provides additional privacy safeguards. In rejecting
Read More »National Identity Cards Scheme creep – 4 Draft Orders laid before Parliament under the Identity Cards Act 2006
The Labour Government seem to be intent on their freedom and civil liberties “scorched earth” policy of inflicting the controversial centralised biometric database National Identity Register on us ahead of the General Election. Will
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