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Bush won't reauthorize eavesdropping Wed Jan 17, 2007 3:44pm ET WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Bush has decided not to renew a program of domestic spying on terrorism suspects, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said on Wednesday, ending an law-enforcement tactic criticized for infringing on civil liberties. "The president has determined not to reauthorize the Terrorist Surveillance Program when the current authorization expires," Gonzales wrote in a letter to congressional leaders. Bush has reauthorized the program every 45 days, and the current authorization is mid-cycle, a senior Justice Department official said. Gonzales said a recent secret-court approval allowed the government to act...

We ask all Republicans politicians to help the Connecticut Republican candidate win the senate seat up for election on November 7, 2008. We ask you to do this by: 1. Convincing Republican nominee Alan Schlesinger, who has proven to be a weak candidate, to drop out of the race. 2. Replacing Alan Schlesinger with a strong Republican candidate. 3. Accepting the fact that Republicans, like popular Governor Jodi Rell, can win in Connecticut. 4. Stopping all verbal and financial support of Independent Democrat Joe Lieberman, who has pledged to caucus with the Democrats and continue to vote with them on...

A Federal Appeals court today upheld the Department of Homeland Security's "Do not kill me" list, citing the constitutional duty of government to protect its citizens. The list, created in response to the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 is designed to help the federal government protect Americans from being killed during dinner. "When Americans are sitting down to dinner or a parent is reading to his or her child the last thing they need is to be killed by a terrorist armed with an Iraqi-made WMD smuggled through Syria or Iran", President Bush said at a meeting of Homeland...