Twelve Steps—Related Press & Editorials
Below is a list of selected news articles, editorials and commentary pertaining to issues covered in Twelve Steps. Click on the link to read the article. This page was last updated February 24th, 2008.
NEWS ARTICLES • OPINIONS & COMMENTARY
NEWS ARTICLES
THE WHITE HOUSE AND CHECKS & BALANCES
• Signing Statements
• Excessive Secrecy & Classification
• Executive Priviledge
OVERSIGHT OF INTELLIGENCE
SURVEILLANCE & SECRECY
• FISA
TORTURE, RENDITION & DETENTION
• Habeas Corpus
• Guantanamo
The White House and Checks & Balances
Signing Statements
- McCain: Bush should veto torture bill (Libby Quaid, AP, 2/20/08)
- Presidential Signing Statements and the Constitution (David Schorr, NPR, 2/15/08)
- Bush move on Darfur law criticized (Charlie Savage, Boston Globe, 2/9/08)
- Bush Reignites debate over signing statements (Kansas City Star, 2/3/08)
Excessive Secrecy and Classification
- Supreme Court rejects ACLU domestic spying lawsuit (Mark Sherman, Ledger Dispatch/AP, 2/20/08)
- Six face charges in 9/11 attack: Torture claims, use of classified evidence likely to beset trial of `high-value' Guantanamo detainees (Michelle Shephard, Toronto Star, 2/12/08)
- Surveillance Court Declines to Release Secret Opinions (James Risen, New York Times, 12/12/07)
Executive Priviledge
- West Wing Aides Cited for Contempt (Paul Kane, Washington Post, 2/15/08)
- House Holds Bush Confidants in Contempt (AP, Washington Post, 2/14/08)
- House Votes to Hold Bush Aides in Contempt (Debbie Elliot, NPR's All Things Considered, 2/14/08)
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Oversight of Intelligence
- New White House Order Bolsters Intelligence Chief's Power (AP, International Herald Tribune, 3/1/08)
Surveillance & Secrecy
- FBI Says Warrantless Wiretapping Laster Until 2006 (Richard Schmitt, LA Times, 3/6/08)
- New Report Will Detail FBI Problems (Kevin Bohn, CNN, 3/5/08)
- Bush Presses House for Surveillance Bill (Jennifer Loven, Chicago Tribune, 3/3/08)
FISA
- Supreme Court dismisses challenge to Bush's wiretapping policy (David Savage, Los Angeles Times, 2/19/08)
- Democrats Set Pro Forma Sessions to Avoid 'special session' on FISA (John Bresnahan, CBS News, 2/18/08)
- Democrats accuse Bush of fanning terrorism fears (Jim Wolf, Reuters, 2/16/08)
- Eavesdropping Law Is Likely to Lapse (Eric Lichtblau, New York Times, 2/14/08)
- Bush Jabs Congress Over Spy Bill Empasse - Says U.S. In "More Danger Of An Attack" Because Congress Hasn't Extended Surveillance Law (AP, CBS News, 2/14/08)
- Senate Votes to Expand Spy Powers (Eric Lichtblau, New York Times, 2/13/08)
- Bush calls on House to pass long-term FISA bill (Mike Carney, USA Today, 2/13/08)
- Dems Fall Well Short of Stripping Immunity from Spy Bill (Martin Kady II, CBS News, 2/12/08)
- In Senate, a White House Victory on Eavesdropping (Eric Lichtblau, New York Times, 1/25/08)
- Senate delays eavesdropping vote (USA Today/AP, 1/25/08)
- Democrats Delay a Vote on Immunity for Wiretaps (Eric Lichtblau, New York Times, 12/18/07)
- Telecom Industry Wins a Round on Eavesdropping (David Stout, New York Times, 12/17/07)
- Warrantless Wiretaps Not Used, Official Says (James Risen, New York Times, 9/19/07)
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Torture, Rendition & Detention
- Justice Official Defends Rough CIA Interrogations: Severe lasting pain is torture, he says (Dan Eggen, Washington Post, 2/17/08)
- CIA boss: Waterboarding may be illegal (Matt Apuzzo, Newsweek/AP, 2/7/08)
Habeas Corpus
Guantanamo
- Bush Appeals to Justices on Detainees Case (Linda Greenhouse, New York Times, 2/15/08)
- Executions May Be Carried Out at Gitmo (Michael Melia and Andrew O. Selsky, 2/12/08)
- 6 at Guantánamo Said to Face Trial in 9/11 Case (William Glaberson, New York Times, 2/9/08)
- Former Guantánamo prisoner asks U.S. to review its founding ideals (Scott Baldauf, Christian Science Monitor, 2/6/08)
- A 2nd Case on Detainees Complicates Deliberations (Linda Greenhouse, New York Times, 2/6/08)
- More rights for Gitmo’s lizards than detainees?: Supreme Court mulls what protections apply to prisoners in 'law-free zone' (AP, MSNBC.com, 12/8/07)
- Supreme Court hears Guantanamo cases: Detainee lawyer portrays case as fundamental test of U.S. system of justice (AP, MSNBC.com, 12/5/07)
- Justices wrangle with lawyers over Guantanamo: At issue - whether to overturn Military Commissions Act passed by Congress (Tom Curry, MSNBC.com, 12/5/07)
- Senate refuses to expand detainee rights: Leahy to continue effort to get enemy combatants habeas corpus rights (AP, MSNBC.com, 9/19/07)
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OPINIONS AND COMMENTARY
THE WHITE HOUSE AND CHECKS & BALANCES
• Signing Statements
• Excessive Secrecy & Classification
• Executive Priviledge
OVERSIGHT OF INTELLIGENCE
SURVEILLANCE & SECRECY
• FISA
TORTURE, RENDITION & DETENTION
• Habeas Corpus
• Guantanamo
The White House and Checks & Balances
- Why I Believe Bush Must Go (George McGovern, Washington Post, 1/6/08)
Signing Statements
- Backdooring the Constitution (William Fisher, OpEdNews.com, 2/18/08)
- Bush's message for McCain (Tim Rutten, Los Angeles Times, 2/9/08)
- Congress: Left Behind (Editorial, Daily Morning News, 2/6/08)
Excessive Secrecy and Classification
- The Court That May Not Be Heard (Editorial, NY Times, 12/15/07)
Executive Priviledge
- Time to Vote Contempt (Editorial, NY Times, 2/14/08)
- Bush v. Congress: The Looming Battle Over Executive Privilege (Adam Cohen, NY Time, 4/10/07)
Oversight of Intelligence
Surveillance & Secrecy
- White House Watch: Why Immunity Matters (Dan Froomkin, Washington Post, 3/3/08)
- Scare Tactics and Our Surveillance Bill (Jay Rockefeller, Patrick Leahy, Silvestre Reyes and John Conyers, Washington Post, 2/25/08)
FISA
- Terrorism Law Battles Flare Up, Flame Out (Andrew Cohen, CBS News, 2/19/08)
- The invasion of America (Andrew P. Napolitano, Los Angeles Times, 2/18/08)
- Because They Said So (Editorial Board, New York Times, 2/10/08)
- Don't trust, verify (Timothy Rieger, Los Angeles Times, 2/8/08)
- The FISA Follies, Redux (Editorial Board, New York Times, 1/26/08)
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Torture, Rendition & Detention
- Stanging against torture (Editorial, Baltimore Sun, 2/19/08)
- Roman road: Terror, torture and the death of a Republic (David Irvine, Salt Lake Tribune, 2/15/08)
- A Question of Human Dignity (Dan Froomkin, Washington Post, 2/14/08)
- Out of Order (Editorial, Los Angeles Times, 2/12/08)
- Because They Said So (Editorial Board, New York Times, 2/10/08)
- Damage That Must Be Undone (Eugene Robinso, Washinton Post, 2/8/08)
Habeas Corpus
- A Key Moment for Justice (Editorial, NY Times 12/5/07)
Guantanamo
- Rigged Trials at Gitmo (Ross Tuttle, The Nation, 2/20/08)
- Out of Commission: Why the government may lose the Guantanamo trials, even if it wins (