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A Lapse in Keeping Bush's Words
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Teen Path to Citizenship Unlikely
Tweet Share on Facebook September 28, 2007 Comment (3)Hopes for a bill allowing illegal immigrant teens to move toward citizenship are dimming.
The DREAM act, sponsored by Sen. Richard Durbin, an Illinois Democrat, had been attached to the Department of Defense authorization. But yesterday the amendment was dropped from the defense bill because of opposition from Republican leadership.
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Morning Buzz: Sept. 28, 2007
Tweet Share on Facebook September 28, 2007 Comment (29)Government soldiers moved today to break up large demonstrations in Myanmar, formerly Burma. They clubbed activists, raided monasteries, and cut Internet access, raising international fears that more killing is to come. At least 10 protesters are reported dead.
A week after American civil rights activists took to the streets in Louisiana, one of the Jena 6 defendants was released on bail. Seventeen-year-old Mychal Bell, who had been imprisoned for 10 months, was released on $45,000 bail yesterday but is due back in court next week. Bell was charged with aggravated second-degree battery for the beating of a white classmate.
One Blackwater USA guard told colleagues to "stop shooting" during the September 16 incident that left 11 Iraqi civilians dead, raised tensions between the U.S. and Iraqi governments, and spurred several new investigations over private contractor work in Iraq. One such congressional investigation determined that Blackwater guards in 2004 triggered the first battle of Fallujah in Iraq by sending unprepared security forces into an insurgent stronghold.
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The Burma/Myanmar Name Game
Tweet Share on Facebook September 27, 2007 Comment (1)What's in a name? Plenty, when referring to the protests that are becoming increasingly violent in the Asian country being referred to as both Myanmar and Burma. Governments around the world are condemning the actions of the military junta, which started cracking down on protesters, killing at least nine people and arresting more than 100 Buddhist monks.
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GOP Urged to Cite 'Islamic Terrorists'
Tweet Share on Facebook September 27, 2007 CommentPollsters and communications advisers to congressional Republicans are urging lawmakers not to follow President Bush's lead when it comes to talking about terrorists and the threat they pose to the nation.
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Intelligence Chief Defends Domestic Satellites
Tweet Share on Facebook September 27, 2007 CommentVice Adm. Robert Murrett, who runs the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, said that the use of satellites and other intelligence community imagery domestically can be very useful but that it is carefully regulated.
"Anytime we do anything domestically, it is in support of a lead domestic agency," he told reporters yesterday. Requests typically come from the Department of Homeland Security but have also originated at the Federal Bureau of Investigation and elsewhere.
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Morning Buzz: Sept. 27, 2007
Tweet Share on Facebook September 27, 2007 CommentProtests continued for the 10th day in Myanmar, with police firing automatic weapons into the crowd. Tens of thousands of Buddhist monks and other protesters have taken to the streets in the largest display of defiance against the military junta since a failed uprising in 1988.
In Iraq, Sunni Vice President Tariq al-Hashemi held a two-hour meeting in Najaf with the top Shiite cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, to discuss political reform in an effort to quash sectarian violence and promote unity.
In another blow to the Patriot Act, a federal judge in Oregon ruled yesterday that two provisions of the legislation are unconstitutional because they allow secret wiretapping and searches without having to show probable cause.
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Key Brit Faults Bush on Global Warming
Tweet Share on Facebook September 26, 2007 CommentOn the eve of a meeting of world leaders on climate change to be hosted by the Bush administration, a top British diplomat who will participate spoke out forcefully against a voluntary approach to attacking global warming.
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Dipnote: a Foggy Bottom Blog
Tweet Share on Facebook September 26, 2007 Comment (1)The State Department has just launched its first official blog, called Dipnote.
Its aim, writes department spokesman Sean McCormack, is to "take you behind the scenes at the State Department," connect diplomats around the world to the larger audience on the Web, and foster discussions of pressing topics.
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Truce Sought in House GOP Feud
Tweet Share on Facebook September 26, 2007 CommentUpset with rumors and stories that House Minority Leader John Boehner and National Republican Congressional Committee Chairman Tom Cole are at odds over fixing the plight of the party's 2008 election operation, top GOP strategists with ties to the White House are urging a truce.
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