• Officials Defend Raid on Lawmaker's Office (p)(f)
  Gonzales and other officials said the search was conducted carefully to avoid trampling on the constitutional privileges accorded to members of Congress -- including the use of a "filter team" of FBI agents and prosecutors not connected to the case who vetted documents to be sure nothing unrelated to the investigation or out of bounds was taken. Gonzales and the White House also said the administration had embarked on private talks with lawmakers about the issue. WP May 23, 2006
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• Congress leaders denounce FBI office raid (p)(f)
  Leaders of both parties on Capitol Hill accused the FBI on Tuesday of overstepping constitutional boundaries designed to protect Congress when it raided a Democratic lawmaker's office over the weekend. Washington Post May 23, 2006
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• F.B.I. Raid Divides G.O.P. Lawmakers and White House - New York Times (p)(f)
  Resentment boiled among senior Republicans for a second day on Tuesday after a team of warrant-bearing agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation turned up at a closed House office building on Saturday evening, demanded entry to the office of a lawmaker and spent the night going through his files. May 24, 2006 NYT
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• Intelligent Design - Skeptics Dictionary (p)(f)
  Intelligent design (ID) is an anti-evolution belief that asserts that naturalistic explanations of some biological entities are not possible and such entities can only be explained by intelligent causes. Advocates of ID maintain that their belief is scientific and provides empirical proof for the existence of God or superintelligent aliens. They claim that intelligent design should be taught in the science classroom as an alternative to the science of evolution.
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• Lawmakers challenge Bush on likely CIA pick (p)(f)
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• Bush's Potential CIA Pick Worries Some (p)(f)
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• Hayden Unafraid to Confront Controversy (p)(f)
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• White House Set to Fight for Hayden (p)(f)
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• Hayden Faces Senate and CIA Hurdles if Named (p)(f)
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• Scientology Training for School Teachers (p)(f)
  A controversy over sending St. Louis Public School teachers to a training program connected to the Church of Scientology underscores a major flaw in the federal No Child Left Behind Act: rigorous performance standards for public schools, but none for private companies that are supposed to repair the failures. September 22, 2005
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• Rumsfeld Rebuked By Retired Generals (p)(f)
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• Comprehensive Report of the Special Advisor to the DCI on Iraq’s WMD (p)(f)
  Key Findings: Saddam wanted to recreate Iraq’s WMD capability—which was essentially destroyed in 1991—after sanctionswere removed and Iraq’s economy stabilized, but probably with a different mix of capabilities to thatwhich previously existed. Sep 30, 2004
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  Iraqi Mobile Biological Warfare Agent Production Plants (p)(f)
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• : No Concerns on Benzene in Soft Drinks (p)(f)
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• WASHINGTON IN BRIEF (p)(f)
  A defense contractor seeking help from Rep. Katherine Harris (R-Fla.) in getting $10 million in federal money last year took her to one of Washington's most exclusive restaurants, where he paid for a meal that may have cost as much as $2,800 and offered to sponsor a campaign fundraiser for her. April 22,2006
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• It Was Clintonian
  Now It's Meat for Bush's Grinder (p)(f)
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• ABC News: US drops library gag order in Patriot Act dispute (p)(f)
  The government has backed down in at least one battle over the Patriot Act by dropping a gag order imposed on a library that refuses to reveal a reader's borrowing habits. April 12,2006
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• ACLU sues over Ohio’s Patriot Act (p)(f)
  The American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio yesterday marked the effective date of Ohio’s version of the anti-terrorism Patriot Act by challenging a court’s attempt to implement part of the law. April 2006
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• The Arab American News (p)(f)
  This week the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) joined a number of civil rights organizations in submitting an amicus brief (friend of the court brief) in the case of American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) v. National Security Agency (NSA.) April 2006
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• Creationist descends on Britain to take debate on evolution into the classroom (p)(f)
  A leading creationist who claims to use science to prove the Bible's version of how the Earth was made begins a controversial tour of Britain today. April 21, 2006
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