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1/26/2011 House votes for repeal of public-paid campaigns: Lawmakers say system is broken
Saying it has become an obsolete waste of money, the House on Wednesday voted to end the taxpayer-funded presidential campaign finance system that has fallen out of favor over the past decade as candidates have chosen to ignore it. The bill steps back from the 1970s-era dream of publicly financed campaigns. More than $600 million could be saved over the next decade by ending the system that channels taxpayer dollars to presidential candidates who agree to abide by fundraising and spending limits. Republicans said the 239-160 vote was just a recognition of how broken the system has become, particularly after Barack Obama reversed a campaign pledge and opted out of the primary and general election matching funds in 2008. “It was President Obama who killed it and made a mockery of public financing of campaigns,” said Rep. Aaron Schock, Illinois Republican. Despite his decision to opt out in 2008, Mr. Obama on Tuesday announced that he opposed the Republicans’ bill. He said the system should be fixed rather than ended, and predicted that corruption would grow with the end of publicly financed presidential campaigns. (Washington Times)
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posted: 8/1/11                   0       1
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5/27/2010 Obama cancels Gulf drilling projects
Takes responsibility for response, works to clean up mineral agency

Mr. Obama said his administration has been trying to clean up that agency, the Minerals Management Service. MMS' chief, Elizabeth Birnbaum, an Obama nominee, quit her post Thursday just before Mr. Obama held a press conference. Mr. Obama was not sure whether Ms. Birnbaum resigned or was asked to leave. (Washington Times)
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posted: 6/22/10                   0       5
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9/16/2009 EXCLUSIVE: W.H. collects Web users' data without notice
The White House is collecting and storing comments and videos placed on its social-networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube without notifying or asking the consent of the site users, a failure that appears to run counter to President Obama's promise of a transparent government and his pledge to protect privacy on the Internet. Marc Rotenberg, president of the Electronic Privacy Information Center, said the White House signaled that it would insist on open dealings with Internet users and, in fact, should feel obliged to disclose that it is collecting such information. "The White House has not been adequately transparent, particularly on how it makes use of new social media techniques, such as this example," he said. (Washington Times)
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posted: 11/2/10                   0       1
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8/21/2009 Voight: Is Obama creating a civil war in America?
"We are witnessing a slow, steady takeover of our true freedoms. We are becoming a socialist nation, and whoever can't see this is probably hoping it isn't true. ..." (Washington Times)
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posted: 8/27/09                   1       10
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8/18/2009 Video- Rep. Massa: What Grassley said the other day was an act of treason
Mr. Grassley recently made waves after saying that there should not be a government healthcare plan that would “pull the plug on granny.” (Washington Times)
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posted: 8/27/09                   0       12
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8/3/2009 Geithner, Summers hedge on tax hikes
Conflict with Obama's vow

Wavering on an emphatic promise he made in the spring, top White House economic adviser Lawrence H. Summers would not rule out middle-class tax increases Sunday as a way for the Obama administration to pay for a sweeping health care plan (Washington Times)
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posted: 8/21/09                   0       11
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6/16/2009 Federal Reserve to gain power under plan
Targets dangers to economy

The Federal Reserve, already arguably the most powerful agency in the U.S. government, will get sweeping new authority to regulate any company whose failure could endanger the U.S. economy and markets under the Obama administration's regulatory overhaul plan (Washington Times)
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posted: 6/16/09                   3       21
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6/3/2009 EXCLUSIVE: Al Qaeda eyes bio attack from Mexico
Seeks white militias as allies (Washington Times)
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posted: 6/5/09                   5       24
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5/7/2009 GOP probes 'extremism' report's origins
using a rare legislative maneuver that ensures that the Democrats must take a public stand

one way or another (Washington Times)
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posted: 5/7/09                   6       25
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5/5/2009 Homeland agency pulled back extremism dictionary
Black power, white supremacists, abortion foes make list (Washington Times)
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posted: 5/5/09                   5       25
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4/8/2009 12 arrested in England anti-terror raids (Washington Times)
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posted: 5/5/09                   2       15
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4/28/2008 Air marshals' names tagged on 'no-fly' list
Some federal air marshals have been denied entry to flights they are assigned to protect when their names matched those on the terrorist no-fly list, and the agency says it's now taking steps to make sure their agents are allowed to board in the future. The problem with federal air marshals (FAM) names matching those of suspected terrorists on the no-fly list has persisted for years, say air marshals familiar with the situation. One air marshal said it has been a major problem, where guys are denied boarding by the airline. In some cases, planes have departed without any coverage because the airline employees were adamant they would not fly, the air marshal said. I've seen guys actually being denied boarding. (Washington Times)
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posted: 5/4/09                   3       12
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3/8/2007 Homeland Security revives supersnoop
Homeland Security officials are testing a supersnoop computer system that sifts through personal information on U.S. citizens to detect possible terrorist attacks, prompting concerns from lawmakers who have called for investigations. The system uses the same data-mining process that was developed by the Pentagon's Total Information Awareness (TIA) project that was banned by Congress in 2003 because of vast privacy violations. A Government Accountability Office (GAO) investigation of the project called ADVISE -- Analysis, Dissemination, Visualization, Insight and Semantic Enhancement -- was requested by Rep. David R. Obey, Wisconsin Democrat and chairman of the House Appropriations Committee. The investigation focuses on whether the program violates privacy laws, and the findings will be released after completion of the Iraq war supplemental spending bill, possibly as early as this week, a panel aide said. (Washington Times)
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posted: 11/9/10                   0       1
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3/3/2007 Security gets a little too personal
This brings up a question that society so far has failed to face explicitly: Are there any limits to the government's powers of surveillance? Or to surveillance by private companies? If so, ... (Washington Times)
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posted: 1/23/10                   0       15
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4/18/2006 CIA mines 'rich' content from blogs
"We're certainly scoring a number of wins with our ultimate customer," said Mr. Jardines, who became the first high-level official in charge of the government's nonsecret intelligence in December. "I can't get into detail of what, but I'll just say the amount of open source reporting that goes into the president's daily brief has gone up rather significantly," Mr. Jardines said. "There has been a real interest at the highest levels of our government, and we've been able to consistently deliver products that are on par with the rest of the intelligence community." (Washington Times)
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posted: 5/29/10                   0       11
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9/26/2005 Bush offers Pentagon as 'lead agency' in disasters
"Is there a circumstance in which the Department of Defense becomes the lead agency?" Mr. Bush asked members of a military task force participating in Hurricane Rita relief efforts (Washington Times)
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posted: 5/16/09                   4       24
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8/10/2005 U.S. seeks to let air passengers keep shoes on Agency calls for effective, but hassle-free technology
The department also is testing a privacy-sensitive version of an X-ray machine that has drawn complaints because although it is able to detect weapons beneath clothes, the initial version also provided a nude image of travelers. (Washington Times)
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posted: 1/24/10                   0       12
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3/7/2004 U.S. troops have sound weapon (Washington Times)
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posted: 5/12/09                   1       18
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5/21/2003 Scanner virtually disrobes passenger
A company called OSI Systems makes an X-ray body scanner, which it calls Rapiscan Secure 1000, for security at airports. (Washington Times)
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posted: 1/22/10                   0       12
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12/18/2002 Soldiers say U.S. let Taliban general go
military mistakenly released one of the most-wanted Taliban leaders in Afghanistan in the summer based on faulty intelligence (Washington Times)
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posted: 5/8/09                   1       19
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7/22/2002 Biden backs letting soldiers arrest civilians
But "it's not very realistic" that, under the current law, soldiers with knowledge of weapons of mass destruction, who might be checking out the discovery of a terrorist weapon in the United States, would "not be able to exercise the same power a police officer would in dealing with that situation." (Washington Times)
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posted: 5/14/09                   4       25
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7/16/2002 Planned volunteer-informant corps elicits '1984' fears
As part of the country's war against terrorism, the Bush administration by next month wants to recruit a million letter carriers, utility workers and others whose jobs allow them access to private homes into a contingent of organized government informants (Washington Times)
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posted: 7/28/09                   0       7
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