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New U.S. report on Patriot Act abuses
July 25, 2003WASHINGTON – A report released July 20 by the Justice Department’s Office of the Inspector General (OIG) charged that federal law enforcement agencies have abused and even beaten people detained after the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist...
Read more400,000 demand probe of Bush lies
July 25, 2003While White House officials assert that President George W. Bush “is not a fact checker,” hundreds of thousands of Americans are demanding that the facts be checked on why the Bush administration went to war in...
Read moreGOP slammed for police state tactics
July 25, 2003WASHINGTON – An angry melee July 17 in which Ways and Means Chair Bill Thomas (R-Calif.) called out the Capitol police to evict Democratic House members from a congressional meeting room is part of a ruthless...
Read moreChicago mulls resolution against Patriot Act
July 18, 2003CHICAGO – On July 9 a multiracial coalition of aldermen submitted a strongly worded resolution to the Chicago City Council calling for repeal of the USA Patriot Act. The act was approved by Congress with no...
Read moreLawmakers tell Cintas: Respect workers
July 18, 2003WASHINGTON – Cintas workers held up a banner that read, “Uniform Justice,” at a July 9 Capitol Hill news conference as lawmakers flayed the $2 billion uniform laundry firm for harassment of their workers to keep...
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