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When President Bush signed the reauthorization of the USA Patriot Act this month, he included an addendum saying that he did not feel obliged to obey requirements that he inform Congress about how the FBI was using the act's expanded police powers.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/032406J.shtml



In Charge, Except They're Not

E.J. Dionne Jr. writes: Hold on: The president of the United States runs the "big government" he's attacking. This is mysterious. If Bush's "good, hardworking people" aren't responsible for the problem, the villains of the piece must be alien creatures created by some strange beast called Big Government.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/032406K.shtml



Barbara Bush's Katrina Donation to Enrich Her Son

Former first lady Barbara Bush donated an undisclosed amount of money to the Bush-Clinton Katrina Fund with specific instructions that the money be spent with an educational software company owned by her son Neil.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/032406L.shtml



Specter Lashes Out at Bush Eavesdropping

A vocal Republican critic of the Bush administration's eavesdropping program will preside over Senate efforts to write the program into law, but he was pessimistic Wednesday that the White House wanted to listen.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/032406N.shtml



Secretary of Homeland Insecurity

The editors of the New York Times write: Mr. Chertoff did not chastise the industry for failing to protect their plants adequately. He proposed weak federal safety standards. He did not even fully embrace a recently-introduced bipartisan Senate bill that would create meaningful standards.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/032406O.shtml