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		<title>Lee, progressives hold hearing on drone policy</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2013/05/09/lee-progressives-hold-hearing-on-drone-policy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 17:24:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, including the caucus’ Peace and Security Task Force Chair Congresswoman Barbara Lee, D-Oakland, held a hearing Wednesday on U.S. drone policy. At issue were lethal drones operations abroad, questions of due process, implications for executive and congressional war-making authority, and the precedent being set as other nations rapidly adopt [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lee says drone memo should drive Congress to act</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2013/02/06/lee-says-drone-memo-should-drive-congress-to-act/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2013 23:40:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Obama Administration’s newly revealed legal rationale for using drones to kill U.S. citizens involved in anti-American terrorism should help convince Congress to repeal the broad use-of-force authorization it in 2001, Rep. Barbara Lee said today. Lee, D-Oakland, was the lone vote against that authorization on Sept. 14, 2001. “We must be careful not to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DiFi floats bill to bar citizens&#8217; indefinite detention</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2011/12/15/difi-floats-bill-to-bar-citizens-indefinite-detention/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2011/12/15/difi-floats-bill-to-bar-citizens-indefinite-detention/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 01:08:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/?p=18326</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee Chairwoman Dianne Feinstein today introduced a bipartisan Due Process Guarantee Act of 2011, which states that American citizens apprehended inside the United States can’t be indefinitely detained by the military. This has been a hot topic in recent weeks, as Congress debated a National Defense Authorization Act that had included a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Congress extends Patriot Act sections for 4 years</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2011/05/27/congress-extends-patriot-act-sections-for-4-years/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2011/05/27/congress-extends-patriot-act-sections-for-4-years/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 May 2011 16:55:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/?p=15980</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Congress voted yesterday to extend several controversial parts of the Patriot Act for four more years. The Senate approved S.990 on a 72 to 23 vote, with both of California’s senators in support; the House passed it on a 250 to 153 vote, with no support from any Bay Area member. President Obama signed it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Leland Yee&#8217;s &#8216;Reader Privacy Act&#8217; advances</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2011/05/09/leland-yees-reader-privacy-act-advances/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2011/05/09/leland-yees-reader-privacy-act-advances/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 May 2011 22:14:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/?p=15782</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Even as Congress prepares to re-consider some controversial sections of the Patriot Act, the California State Senate unanimously approved a bill today that would preclude state law enforcement from using one of the investigative tools now at issue. Many Patriot Act provisions have been made permanent after being passed in October 2001 to extend law [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More politicos react to Osama bin Laden&#8217;s demise</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2011/05/02/more-politicos-react-to-osama-bin-ladens-demise/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2011/05/02/more-politicos-react-to-osama-bin-ladens-demise/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 May 2011 21:53:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/?p=15730</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I’ve just filed a story based on conversations I had today with several Bay Area members of Congress regarding the slaying of terrorist leader Osama bin Laden, but other politicos have a lot to say on the matter, too… From U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano: “The death of Osama bin Laden is an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rights groups say local cops should shun FBI</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2011/03/29/rights-groups-say-local-cops-should-shun-fbi/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2011/03/29/rights-groups-say-local-cops-should-shun-fbi/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Mar 2011 18:58:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Civil rights watchdog groups say police in Oakland, San Francisco and other cities should stop working with the FBI on terrorism investigations so long as doing so means they can violate local privacy policies. “Under the state constitution and local policies, Californians are protected against government intelligence gathering unless there is a factual basis to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Local Dems weigh in domestic terror hearing</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2011/03/10/local-dems-weigh-in-domestic-terror-hearing/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2011/03/10/local-dems-weigh-in-domestic-terror-hearing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Mar 2011 15:54:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bay Area members of Congress are speaking out against what they see as bias in today’s House Homeland Community Committee hearing on “The Extent of Radicalization in the American Muslim Community and that Community’s Response.” Reps. Pete Stark, D-Fremont, and John Dingell, D-Mich., led 55 of their colleagues in sending a letter to committee chairman [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Showdown looms over Berkeley&#8217;s Gitmo invitation</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2011/02/10/showdown-looms-over-berkeleys-gitmo-invitation/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2011/02/10/showdown-looms-over-berkeleys-gitmo-invitation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Feb 2011 23:25:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Berkeley City Council’s consideration this coming Tuesday, Feb. 15, of a resolution offering the city as a site to re-settle some already-cleared Guantanamo Bay terrorism detainees is making waves. The Berkeley Peace and Justice Commission voted Dec. 6 to recommend that the City Council pass such a resolution, which would ask Congress to remove any [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Toilet-paper prank targets Cal&#8217;s John Yoo</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2010/04/20/toilet-paper-prank-targets-cals-john-yoo/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2010/04/20/toilet-paper-prank-targets-cals-john-yoo/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Apr 2010 22:18:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the many activists protesting University of California, Berkeley law professor John Yoo – who as a Justice Department lawyer helped build a legal framework for the “enhanced interrogation” techniques many now consider to be torture and for other perceived Bush Administration transgressions – has found a, well, creative new way to voice displeasure [...]]]></description>
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