In an article published by the Washington Post, former Homeland Security secretary Michael Chertoff warns America of the need to install body-imaging screening machines at airports. He rails against critics of the devices, accusing them of being ideologues setting out to 'alarm the public.' At the foot of the piece, the fig leaf: Chertoff … [...]

JUSTICE Act: a bill to restore the Bill of Rights to America – Boing Boing Today, Senators Russ Feingold and Dick Durbin — along with eight other Senators — have taken the Administration up on its offer by introducing the JUSTICE Act, which would rein in the worst excesses of PATRIOT and last years FISA [...]

Obama adminstration brings back the Freedom of Information Act and transparency in government – Boing Boing The Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Marcia Hofmann has a report card on transparent government measures undertaken by the Obama administration on its first day in office. The news is pretty damned good: they’ve reversed Ashcroft’s restrictions on Freedom of Information [...]

Tell Congress to rein in DHS travel abuses – Boing Boing The ACLU has set up a form that makes it easy to tell Congress to overhaul the broken terrorist watch list and to require reasonable suspicion for electronic searches at the border. With no suspicion and no explanation, the U.S. government can seize your [...]

The Raw Story | Kucinich presents Bush impeachment articles An Ohio Democratic lawmaker and former presidential candidate has presented articles of impeachment against President George W. Bush to Congress. Thirty-five articles were presented by Rep. Dennis Kucinich to the House of Representatives late Monday evening, airing live on C-SPAN.

Daily Kos: BREAKING ON C-SPAN: Kucinich introducing impeachment Congressman Dennis Kucinich is on the floor of the House of Representatives right now introducing 35 articles of impeachment against President George W. Bush.

US reportedly pulls out of UN Human Rights Council – Boing Boing The Human Rights Tribune is reporting that the US has pulled out of the United Nations’ Human Rights Council, “an international body within the United Nations System. Its stated purpose is to address human rights violations.” This doesn’t sound good.

John McCain vows to continue Bush’s illegal warrantless wiretapping program – Boing Boing John McCain has changed his position on illegal warrantless wiretapping: he used to think that the President had to uphold the nation’s laws. Now he says that the Constitution is subordinate to the all-powerful executive order. My favorite line on this comes [...]

Shocking, I know. Gonzales, Mueller admit FBI broke law – Yahoo! News And they promise not to do it again Boing Boing: DoJ: FBI misused Patriot act in domestic spying activities ALA | Statement from ALA President Leslie Burger on Justice Dept. Investigation into FBI, NSLs These findings confirm many of ALA’s most repeatedly stated [...]

Wired News: Judge Halts NSA Snooping The Bush administration’s warrantless eavesdropping on Amercians’ telephone and internet communications is unconstitutional and must stop immediately, a federal judge ruled Thursday. The ruling is the first court order barring the National Security Agency’s ambitious domestic surveillance activities, which have spurred a string of lawsuits against the government and [...]