The ghost of Lawrence MacAulay haunts me. It may haunt all of Canada if we don't get our heads straight and start beating down overreactive and intrusive legislation drafted by people who don't understand technology.
Various Canadian police organizations have long clamoured for significantly expanded wiretapping rights. Lawrence MacAulay, Martin Cauchon and Allan Rock [...]
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The New York Times is reporting today that the CIA has been using foreign countries to interrogate terrorist suspects:
"The Bush administration's secret program to transfer suspected terrorists to foreign countries for interrogation has been carried out by the Central Intelligence Agency under broad authority that has allowed it to act without case-by-case approval from [...]
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Check out the cans on that statue! In a widely anticipated move, John Ashcroft has resigned. Let's just hope that he won't slide into some other cabinet position under Bush... According to Yahoo, his five-page resignation letter included this gem (if anyone has a copy, please send it along):
"The objective of securing [...]
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