Bush and his top national security advisers are trying to change the debate — and even the vocabulary — about the National Security Agency’s controversial electronic monitoring program. Don’t call it domestic spying, they say. It’s a terrorist surveillance program. Americans have been uneasy about the program since it was first disclosed last month. According to polls, slightly more than half think the government should first get a warrant before eavesdropping on people in the United States whose calls and e-mails the government believes involve al-Qaida. Bush, along with the nation’s top military intelligence officer and the attorney general, has made the case in a three-day pitch. Gen. Michael V. Hayden, the government’s No. 2 intelligence official, tried to drive the point home using air travel. Just change the words and most people will buy it. It has worked so many times before so they will try it again. Will the American public ever catch on? ...
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 Microsoft To Give EU Windows Code |
Microsoft Corp. said Wednesday it will let competitors examine some of the blueprints to its flagship Windows operating system in response to a European Union antitrust ruling calling for greater openness. Although Microsoft insists it had already complied in December by supplying up to 12,000 pages of documentation and offering rivals 500 hours, or about $100,000 worth, of free technical support apiece, it says it will license the Windows source code to address any lingering concerns that EU and U.S. regulatory officials may have. Last month, an independent monitor nominated by Microsoft found that the documents already provided by the company were "totally unfit for its intended purpose." ...
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| Mexican migrants to get US maps |
A Mexican government agency is to issue some 70,000 maps marking main roads and water tanks for people wanting to cross illegally into the US. The National Human Rights Commission says the maps will be aimed at cutting the death toll among migrants. US advocates of tougher border controls have criticised the move, saying it will encourage illegal immigration. Relations between the US and Mexico have cooled recently over US plans to build a fence on parts of the border. The map plan is backed by Humane Borders, a US-based organisation which operates about 70 emergency water stations near the 3,200-km (2,000-mile) border. Launching the project in Mexico City, officials from Mexico's Human Rights Commission (HRC) flatly denied they were trying to encourage greater migration. ...
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| Australia Day sparks riot fears |
Australia's prime minister has called for tolerance ahead of the country's national day, amid fears it could see a repeat of last month's race riots. The nationalist Australia First Party plans a rally to call for charges against white rioters to be dropped. The rally will be at Cronulla Beach, which saw bloody clashes between young white men and those of Arabic and Mediterranean appearance in December. An extra 1,200 police have been deployed in case of further violence. Mr Howard, in a nationally televised address on Tuesday, said that the racial clashes last month had brought "shame on all involved". But he stressed that there was no need "for either national self-flagellation or moral panic" over the outbreak. ...
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| Eye Scan Technology Comes to Schools. Big Brother has arrived |
Parents who want to pick up their kids at school in one New Jersey district now can submit to iris scans, as the technology that helps keep our nation's airports and hotels safe begins to make its way further into American lives.The Freehold Borough School District launched this high-tech, high-wattage security system on Monday with funding from the Department of Justice as part of a study on the system's effectiveness. As many as four adults can be designated to pick up each child in the district, but in order to be authorized to come into school, they will be asked to register with the district's iris recognition security and visitor management system. At this point, the New Jersey program is not mandatory....
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| Al Qaeda Sees Resurgence in Pakistani Tribal Areas |
Al Qaeda and its former protectors — the Taliban — are in the midst of a powerful resurgence, according to accounts by local officials and information contained in new al Qaeda videotapes obtained by ABC News. U.S. troops are not permitted inside Pakistan, and the Pakistani army is barely seen in this part of Waziristan Province. The new videotapes show open recruitment for the jihad, or holy war, to kill Americans and their allies. The narrator says, "Come join the jihad caravan." "The Taliban resurgence this year has been enormous and quite extraordinary," said Ahmed Rashid, author of the book "Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil, and the Fundamentalism in Central Asia." ...
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