The Joint Task Force on Iraq was trying to find evidence that would back up the White House’s assertion that Iraq was a WMD danger. Its chief of operations was a career undercover officer named Valerie Wilson.

“It’s clear that a large number of the signing statements that have been issued by this administration claim the authority to disregard the law.”

The White House has conceded that terrorism suspects held by the United States have a right under international law to basic human and legal protections provided by the Geneva Conventions.

Schwarzenegger’s office incharge of protecting California against terrorism has tracked demonstrations staged by political and antiwar groups, a practice that senior law enforcement officials say is an abuse of civil liberties.

A civil rights group sued the Defense Department on Wednesday in an effort to force the Pentagon to turn over information it’s collected on peace groups and antiwar activists under a controversial program designed to track terrorists.