• Judge Hears Arguments in Spy Program Case (p)(f)
  Government attorneys continued Monday to argue that state secrets would be breached if a lawsuit challenging President Bush's domestic spying program is heard in federal court. July 10, 2006
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• Bush agrees to court review of spy program (p)(f)
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In a reversal, the White House has agreed to allow a secret federal court review of the National Security Agency's warrantless domestic spying program, a top U.S. Senate Republican announced on Thursday. July 13, 2006
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• Wiretap Surrender (p)(f)
  SENATE JUDICIARY Committee Chairman Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) has cast his agreement with the White House on legislation concerning the National Security Agency's warrantless surveillance as a compromise -- one in which President Bush accepts judicial review of the program. It isn't a compromise, except quite dramatically on the senator's part. EDITORIAL July 15, 2006
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• Bush Compromises On Spying Program (p)(f)
  Switching course on one of his most controversial anti-terrorism policies, President Bush agreed yesterday to submit the administration's warrantless surveillance program to a court for constitutional review. July 14, 2006
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• Torture Documents Released Under FOIA (p)(f)
  Continually updated
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• CRS Questions Presidential Authority for Warrantless Electronic Surveillance (p)(f)
  Congressionl Research Service Report: Recent media revelations that the President authorized the National Security Agency (NSA) to collect signals intelligence1 from communications involving U.S. persons within the United States, without obtaining a warrant or court order, raise numerous questions (PDF)
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• Half of Teachers Quit in 5 Years (p)(f)
  According to a new study from the National Education Association, a teachers union, half of new U.S. teachers are likely to quit within the first five years because of poor working conditions and low salaries. May 9, 2006
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• Why New Teachers Burn Out (p)(f)
  Regarding "Half of Teachers Quit in 5 Years" [news story, May 9]: To reduce the loss of new, energetic teachers, the teaching load, particularly during the first year, must be reduced. May 19, 2006
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• Cabinet Officer's Veracity Faces a Test (p)(f)
  The inspector general at the Department of Housing and Urban Development is investigating an episode in which HUD Secretary Alphonso Jackson bragged that he yanked a federal contract for political reasons and then changed his story and said he made the whole thing up. May 13, 2006;
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• Out of a Jam and Back Into the Jelly (p)(f)
  A major figure in the Election Day phone-jamming scandal that embarrassed and nearly bankrupted the New Hampshire GOP is out of prison and back in the political game. Charles McGee, the former executive director of the state Republican Party, pleaded guilty to conspiracy and served seven months for his part in the scheme to have a telemarketer to tie up Democratic and union phone lines in 2002. May 28, 2006; Page A05
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• GOP Official Faces Sentence in Phone-Jamming (p)(f)
  In October 2002, Charles McGee, executive director of the New Hampshire Republican Party, was mailed a Democratic flier that offered Election Day rides to the polls. The circular listed telephone numbers of party offices in five cities and towns. "I paused and thought to myself, I might find out -- I might think of an idea of disrupting those operations," McGee later testified. May 17, 2006
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• Former Bush campaign official sentenced to prison (p)(f)
  A senior official in U.S. President George W. Bush’s re-election campaign was sentenced to 10 months in prison on Wednesday for his role in suppressing votes in a key U.S. Senate race, a scandal that Democrats charge may involve the White House. May 17, 2006
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• Americans United Urges Maryland Attorney General To Block State Funding For Religious Group (p)(f)
  Don't Pass Collection Plate To Maryland Taxpayers, Says AU's Lynn Americans United for Separation of Church and State has urged the Maryland attorney general’s office to deny state funding for a religious convention scheduled for this summer in Baltimore. Tuesday, May 23, 2006
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• Researchers release draft final report on New Orleans levees (p)(f)
  700-page report suggests mechanisms for levee failures Following an eight-month study of the New Orleans levee system and its performance during Hurricane Katrina, a 30-person team of researchers led by Raymond Seed and Robert Bea of the University of California, Berkeley, released a near-complete draft of their findings today in a "town hall" meeting in that Gulf Coast city. May 22, 2006
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• Science Teachers Confront Intelligent Design (p)(f)
  In classrooms across the country, science teachers are increasingly finding themselves on the front lines of the decades-long evolution wars, pitting accepted scientific explanations against biblical-based challengers. So when some 15,000 science teachers convened for their annual conference recently, many attended workshops designed to help them deal with the issue. May 24, 2006 VOA News
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• Judge in 'intelligent design' case reflects (p)(f)
  A federal judge who outlawed the teaching of "intelligent design" in science class told graduates at Dickinson College that the nation's founders saw religion as the result of personal [free, rational] inquiry, not church doctrine. May 25, 2006
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• 'Antique' Phone Tax Dropped (p)(f)
  The Treasury Department, conceding that it has no right to continue collecting a 108-year-old tax on long-distance telephone calls,will drop its legal battle for the tax and instead refund about $13 billion to callers who have paid the tax in the past three years. The 3 percent tax, enacted in 1898 to help pay for the Spanish-American War and revised in 1965, was declared illegal by five federal courts of appeal.May 26, 2006
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• Bush Seals Files Seized In FBI Probe Of Jefferson (p)(f)
  President Bush ordered the Justice Department yesterday to seal records seized from the Capitol Hill office of a Democratic congressman, representing a remarkable intervention by the nation's chief executive into an ongoing criminal probe of alleged corruption. May 26, 2006
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• Bush, Blair Concede Missteps on Iraq (p)(f)
  President Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair last night acknowledged a series of errors in managing the occupation of Iraq that have made the conflict more difficult and more damaging to the U.S. image abroad, even as they insisted that enough progress has been made that other nations should support the nascent Iraqi government. May 26, 2006
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• 'Black-looking' criminals more likely to get death sentence | Science Blog (p)(f)
  Male murderers with stereotypically ''black-looking'' features are more than twice as likely to get the death sentence than lighter-skinned African American defendants found guilty of killing a white person, Stanford researchers have found. The relationship between physical appearance and the death sentence disappears, however, when both murderers and their victims are black. May 25, 2006
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