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Patriot Act Author Has Concerns

LA Times

Detaining citizens as 'enemy combatants' -- a policy not spelled out in the act -- is flawed, the legal scholar says.

Security breaches. Suicidal detainees. A legal challenge heading to the Supreme Court. Welcome to Guantanamo

Time

Though U.S. officials have released some inmates deemed harmless, new ones are still arriving, with about 20 coming and going last week. Amid a global argument about their rights, the Supreme Court recently agreed to decide whether the captives at Guantanamo can at least challenge their detention in federal court.

New surveillance guidelines fuel debate in California

Boston Globe

Federal authorities may now have broad powers under the USA Patriot Act to monitor the public in its fight against terrorism, but guidelines distributed last month by the California attorney general's office contradict the surveillance methods used by federal agencies -- and advise local police to observe stricter state limits when it comes to spying on the public.

Miami crowd control would do tyrant proud

St. Petersburg Times

Miami police Chief John Timoney must be mighty proud of the social order he maintained during the Free Trade Area of the Americas summit a couple of weeks ago in Miami - sort of the way Saddam Hussein was proud of quieting dissension in his country.

Diebold Backs Off Legal Challenge 

Wired

Diebold Election Systems is withdrawing legal threats against voting activists and Internet service providers for publishing copies of internal staff e-mails that the company says were stolen from its servers.

A U.N. grab for Internet control?

WND

A global summit set for next week in Geneva is expected to provide the venue for a plan to put the Internet under United Nations control.

Schools expanding their power to keep an ''eye'' on students

Virginia Pilot

For the past six years, closed-circuit television cameras have increasingly acted as the eyes of South Hampton Roads school disciplinarians, never blinking, never turning their heads, never distracted by spitballs.

Iraqi Officials: American Troops Sprayed Fire in the Streets, Killing Civilians

London Guardian

Iraqi officials in Samarra yesterday challenged US military accounts of a bloody battle on Sunday, accusing American soldiers of spraying fire at random on the city streets, killing several civilians.

Saudi official blames 'foreigners' for terror

WND

Prince Abdul Rahman, Saudi Arabia's deputy minister of defense and aviation, says "foreign hands" are behind the Riyadh bombings that left scores dead - implying the attacks were not the work of Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida network but rather nations opposing the country's strict adherence to Islamic law and which want to impose foreign domination upon the kingdom

Terrorist base south of border

WND

Paraguay sees major influx of Arabic-speaking 'Europeans'

Supreme Court Refuses to Hear Second Amendment Case

KeepandBearArms.com

-- The U.S. Supreme Court has denied Petition for Writ of Certiorari in the Silveira v. Lockyer Second Amendment lawsuit. As of this publication, the Silveira docket website was not yet updated, but Cornell's Supreme Court orders page for December 1 lists the case as denied.

Pyongyang rejects US demand to renounce nukes

Straits-Times

North Korea on Monday rejected a key US demand that it first renounce its nuclear programmes before winning any security guarantees from Washington, saying that such conditions amounted to 'slavery' and that the country would 'rather die' first.

N. Korea Accuses U.S. of 150 Spy Flights

Newsday

North Korea said Monday the U.S. military conducted at least 150 spy flights against it in November and accused Washington of "watching for an opportunity to crush" the communist regime.

Taiwan, US to hold defense talks, computer war simulation

AFP

Taiwan and the United States are to hold comprehensive defense talks and a computer war simulation later this month, defense officials said Monday amid rising tensions with rival China.

UK: Drivers face mobile phone fines

BBC

A ban on using handheld mobile phones while driving has come into force.

UK: Army 'forcing out sick Gulf war veterans'

London Telegraph

The Ministry of Defence forced "hundreds" of victims of Gulf war syndrome to quit the Army under a system known as manning control to avoid paying them medical pensions.

French row over rights for unborn

London Guardian

French feminists, doctors and the leftwing opposition reacted furiously after the conservative majority in parliament passed a bill making it a crime to cause a pregnant woman to miscarry against her will.