Reason Takes an Early Holiday; Washington Capitulates on Surveillance – Roll Call

Reason Takes an Early Holiday; Washington Capitulates on Surveillance

By Madison Powers and CQ Guest Columnist

Posted June 25, 2008 at 12:00am

a compromise measure
Washington Post editorial
2005 New York Times article
letter to Congress
Madison Powers is Senior Research Scholar at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University. His columns appear regularly on Wednesday in CQ Politics.

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