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Voice from the Desert (Free subscription) | 10/11/2008
From the Whispers in the Loggia blog, 10.9.2008. * * * Over recent weeks, three independent sources in divergent locales have indicated a surprise front-runner for the vacant archbishopric of St Louis: Bishop Salvatore Matano of Burlington. A native of Providence ordained to lead Vermont’s statewide diocese of 150,000 in 2005, the 62 year-old prelate was a Roman [...]
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Peter Mclaren (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
Leahy Concerned about NorthCom’s New Army Unit By Matthew Rothschild, October 7, 2008 Senator Patrick Leahy is concerned about the Pentagon’s decision to designate an Army unit to Northern Command. On October 1, the Pentagon, for the first time ever, dedicated an Army force specifically to NorthCom, which is in charge of securing not some foreign region but [...]
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Grasping Reality with Both Hands (Free subscription) | 10/07/2008
Sam Stein: > Why McCain's Time With Council Of World Freedom Matters: [D]uring the 1980s, Sen. John McCain served on the board of a far-right conservative organization that had supplied arms and funds to paramilitary organizations in Latin America.... "John McCain sat on the board of...the U.S. Council for World Freedom," said Begala, "The Anti-Defamation League, in 1981 when McCain was on the board,...
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broadbandreports.com (Free subscription) | 10/05/2008
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-VT) and the panel s senior Republican, Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, have asked trade negotiators not to make the controversial Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) too specific, notes consumer advocacy firm Public Knowledge . The ACTA takes aim at BitTorrent websites like the Pirate Bay, whistle-blowers, and even legit distribution systems...
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Star Tribune (Free subscription) | 10/04/2008
WASHINGTON - Justice Department officials released new guidelines Friday that empower FBI agents to use intrusive techniques to gather intelligence within the United States. The new road map allows investigators to recruit informants, employ physical surveillance and conduct interviews in which agents disguise their identities to assess national-security threats.Attorney General Michael Mukasey said...
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Daily News (Free subscription) | 10/04/2008
WASHINGTON - The Bush administration issued new rules Friday designed to allow the FBI to pursue potential national security threats with the same vigor and techniques used against common criminals.
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kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 10/04/2008
The Bush administration issued new rules Friday designed to allow the FBI to pursue potential national security threats with the same vigor and techniques used against common criminals. Civil libertarians said the guidelines will come at a cost to constitutional protections.
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Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 10/04/2008
The Bush administration issued new rules Friday designed to allow the FBI to pursue potential national security threats with the same vigor and techniques used against common criminals. Civil libertarians said the guidelines will come at a cost to constitutional protections.
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Zeropaid File Sharing P2P Technolog (Free subscription) | 10/03/2008
The hot-button issue of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) not being transparent became a major issue again recently. Three senators are demanding that ACTA be made more transparent and that it wouldn't undermine congress's ability to govern. Patrick Leahy and Arlen Specter issued an open letter to Susan Schwab today regarding ACTA, a controversial international agreement that has, so far,...
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Ars Technica (Free subscription) | 10/03/2008
Patrick Leahy and Arlen Specter, who head the Senate Judiciary Committee, don't like what they're hearing about the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA). A new letter to ACTA negotiators "strongly urges" them not to include DRM or ISP filtering in the agreement. Read More...
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Michael Geist's Blog (Free subscription) | 10/03/2008
Ben Babcock blogs about an election debate in Thunder Bay-Superior North where copyright was part of the discussion.
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Michael Geist's Blog (Free subscription) | 10/03/2008
U.S. Senators Patrick Leahy and Arlen Specter, typically associated with increased IP protection, have issued a public letter to the USTR expressing concern about the current direction of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement negotiations.
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Intellectual Property Watch (Free subscription) | 10/03/2008
US senators Patrick Leahy (Democrat, Vermont) and Arlen Specter (Republican, Pennsylvania), the leaders of the Senate Judiciary Committee, warned the US Trade Representative not to negotiate an overly broad Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), and criticized the Bush administration for not supporting their bill in Congress to strengthen US IP protection ...
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Cnet (Free subscription) | 10/03/2008
Two senators who strongly support intellectual property protections are concerned over that an anti-counterfeiting treaty under negotiation goes too far.
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Exploring International Law (Free subscription) | 10/02/2008
The Senate approved H.R. 7081, the United States-India Nuclear Cooperation Approval and Nonproliferation Enhancement Act, this evening at 8:32PM by a vote of 86-13. The Washington
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