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Tuesday, January 24, 2006 |
Iraq Rebuilding Badly Hobbled, US Report Finds. The first official history of the $25 billion American reconstruction effort in Iraq depicts a program hobbled from the outset by gross understaffing, a lack of technical expertise, bureaucratic infighting, secrecy and constantly increasing security costs, according to a preliminary draft. [t r u t h o u t]
3:02:25 PM 
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Hooded protest against wiretaps. Hooded protesters turned to one of America's founding fathers for their rebuttal of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales' case for domestic spying without warrants. Twenty-two protesters, including four holding a sign quoting Benjamin Franklin, stood with their backs to him as he told an audience at Georgetown Law School that the program was designed "to detect and prevent the next attack on the United States." [CNN.com]
3:01:46 PM
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Republicans Criticized for $22 Billion to Benefit HMOs. House and Senate GOP negotiators, meeting behind closed doors last month to complete a major budget-cutting bill, agreed on a change to Senate-passed Medicare legislation that would save the health insurance industry $22 billion over the next decade, according to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office. [t r u t h o u t]
10:35:36 AM
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E.J. Dionne Jr. | Rove's Early Warning. E.J. Dionne Jr. asks: Are we really safer now than we were five years ago? Has the Iraq war, as organized and prosecuted by the administration, made us stronger or weaker? Do we feel more secure knowing the heck of a job our government did during Hurricane Katrina? Do we have any confidence that the Department of Homeland Security and other government agencies will clean up their act if Washington remains under the sway of one-party government? [t r u t h o u t]
10:34:54 AM
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Bush Administration's Campaign to Justify Spying Intensifies. A senior US intelligence official offered a wide-ranging and detailed defense of the National Security Agency's domestic spying program yesterday, kicking off a White House campaign aimed at convincing the public that the effort is both legal and necessary to combat al Qaeda terrorists. [t r u t h o u t]
10:34:04 AM
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Judge Orders Release of Gitmo Detainees' Names. A federal judge ruled Monday that the Defense Department must release the identities of hundreds of Guantanamo Bay detainees. Most of the hundreds of prisoners at the US prison in Cuba have been held since the September 11, 2001, attacks without being charged or publicly identified, which has troubled human rights groups. [t r u t h o u t]
10:32:16 AM
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