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WASHINGTON — President Bush, warning Americans that "terrorists are still active... and still trying to kill our people," announced Wednesday the transfer of 14 key terrorist suspects from secret CIA custody to the U.S. Navy base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, including alleged Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed. He also announced that he was asking Congress to pass legislation that would allow the United States to try the terror suspects for war crimes. "The families of the 9/11 attacks have waited patiently for justice," Bush said in making the announcement. Issuing a warning to terrorists around the world, the president...

A judge’s first-year failing-grade opinion. The Honorable Anna Diggs-Taylor probably means well. The lone judge in American history to order a president to halt in wartime a foreign-intelligence-collection program that has undoubtedly saved lives probably sympathizes with the journalists, and others, who are suing to stop the Terrorist Surveillance Program (TSP) in which NSA intercepts foreign-U.S. terrorist communications. She probably feels in her heart the program is wrong, and undoubtedly hears the footsteps of the federal judicial panel moving towards taking this case away from her and consolidating it with others. We can sympathize with her motives, and even share...

There were two interesting news stories breaking last week that have not yet had proper comment in the mainline media. Six major Congressional sponsors of the campaign finance reform act filed papers in federal court last week to intervene in the lawsuits brought by those who consider the law unconstitutional. The culprits pushing limited political speech for the American people are Senators John McCain (R-AZ), Russ Feingold (D-Ws), Olympia Snowe (R-MA), and Jim Jeffords (I-VT). They were joined by Representatives Chris Shays (R-CN) and Marty Meehan (D-MS). Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and the National Rifle Association both brought suites claiming...