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...Press, Politics, and Public Policy yesterday evening. In their controversial story on the secret National Security Agency spying program, James Risen and Eric Lichtblau of The New York Times revealed that the Bush administration had used illegal wiretaps to monitor the nation’s phone lines for terrorist activity. The Bush administration has vehemently denied any wrongdoing in the matter. “[The Goldsmith Awards] encourage a more insightful, spirited debate about public policy, government, and the press,” said Alex S. Jones, director of the Shorenstein Center. Yesterday’s awards ceremony, held...
...Delany joined the Marines, pushing college aside. “I needed a chance to grow up,” Delany says. The unenthusiastic student proved to be a much more attentive soldier, and quickly climbed the ranks. After 9/11, Delany’s battalion became the only anti-terrorist unit and was sent to guard the U.S. Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan. The only attack while Delany was stationed there involved indirect fire, and no one was hurt. After about four months, Delany’s unit was rotated out of Kabul, and he was sent to North Korea. Again...
...last week an Israeli missile killed two Islamic Jihad militants riding in an ice cream truck in Gaza, along with three bystanders, including a child and a teenager. Says Col. Yohanan Tzoreff, a senior researcher at the Institute for Counter Terrorism near Tel Aviv, "If Fatah continues its terrorist attacks against us, we know that it isn't trying to destroy Israel but to destroy the Hamas regime...
...lawyers and relatives. According to Israeli sources in the prison administration, the jailed Hamas chiefs have told Haniya they want revenge for the purges that senior Fatah officials carried out in 1996. Both Palestinian and Israeli sources say that Hamas leaders are trying to persuade Islamic Jihad to halt terrorist attacks against Israel, at least for the time being. To an extent, this seems to have worked; Islamic Jihad has limited its recent actions against Israel to a few rocket attacks. But Palestinian sources say that Islamic Jihad is wary of joining Hamas in government, uncertain how Hamas will handle...
...likewise, a nation that has complete security is one with no privacy. It is in the best interest of the country to maintain some degree of privacy amongst its citizens. According to the Bush administration, the Patriot Act has been crucial in protecting Americans from falling victim to terrorist attacks. President Bush says that the legislation has been vital in detecting terrorist cells and squelching plots of attack. And to be fair, the new legislation is not without its bright spots. Those subpoenaed under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, for example, for library, medical, and computer records, may now challenge...