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• Military Commissions Act of 2006
  ...October 17, 2006. Drafted in the wake of the [[Supreme Court of the United States|Supreme Court]]'s decision on ''[[Hamdan v. Rumsfeld]]'',<ref name="nytimes ...alien unlawful enemy combatants engaged in hostilities against the United States for violations of the law of war and other offenses triable by military com
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• NSA call database
  ...om the four largest [[telephone company|telephone carriers]] in the United States: [[AT&T]], [[SBC Communications|SBC]], [[BellSouth]] (all three now called ...Amendment to the United States Constitution|Fourth Amendment of the United States Constitution]].
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• NSA electronic surveillance program
  ...ogram to intercept [[al Qaeda]] communications overseas where at least one party is not a [[US person]]. It was later disclosed that technical glitches res ...gram targets communications where at least one party is outside the United States, and where it asserts that there are reasonable grounds to believe that one
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• NSA warrantless surveillance controversy
  {{Multiple issues|cleanup=January 2010|expert=United States Government|prose=January 2010|tone=January 2010|update=January 2010|date=Ja ...ef> This action was challenged by a number of groups including the United States Congress as unconstitutional. This article examines the scope, nature and
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• Operation TIPS
  ...e United States of America|President]] [[George W. Bush]] to have [[United States]] citizens report suspicious activity. The program's website implied that U ...ng of the website was subsequently changed. President Bush's then-[[United States Attorney General|Attorney General]], [[John Ashcroft]] denied that private
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• Luis Posada Carriles
  ...sident Perez or the rest of the leadership of the ruling Democratic Action Party. |work=[[New York Times]] |date=15 November 1976 |accessdate=2009-02-17 |a ...ions/cases/posadacarriles/default.asp</ref> On April 8, 2009, the [[United States Attorney]] filed a superseding indictment in the case. Mr. Posada-Carriles'
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• Unlawful combatant
  ...anet.org/irr/hr/winter03/unlawful.html "Unlawful Combatants" in the United States: Drawing the Fine Line Between Law and War] [[Human Rights Magazine]] Winte ...hether a person may be designated an unlawful enemy combatant under United States law. The assumption that such a category as unlawful combatant exists is no
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• De Havilland Tiger Moth
  ...this also included 200 Tiger Moths that were built under wartime [[United States Army Air Forces]] (USAAF) [[Lend-Lease]] orders, which were designated for ...ralia]] assembled an initial batch of 20 aircraft from parts sent from the United Kingdom prior to embarking on a major production campaign of their own of t
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