David Kravets reports: Powerful Senate leaders on Thursday bowed to FBI concerns that adding privacy protections to an expiring provision of the Patriot Act could jeopardize “ongoing” terror investigations. The Patriot Act was adopted six weeks after the 2001 terror attacks, and greatly expanded the government’s power to intrude into the private lives of Americans…
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NH congressman questions Social Security on glitch
As an update to a story previously reported here, Holly Ramer of the Associated Press reports: Rep. Paul Hodes has asked the Social Security Administration to investigate and stop a processing glitch that linked U.S. numbers to those issued in three foreign countries and could be causing credit problems for his constituents. The problem—which mostly…
Farina Accused Of Misappropriating Confidential Student Info
Marcia Chambers reports: Denise Farina, the tenured teacher at the center of a rare public termination hearing, used her teacher’s pass code to take confidential information from a student data bank at the Mary T. Murphy Elementary School to give to her paralegal for use in her case — a violation of federal law, the…
Court won’t hear sperm donor suit
John R. Ellement reports: The [Massachusetts] state Appeals Court asked lawmakers yesterday to take on complex legal questions now surfacing about anonymous sperm donors and the children conceived through science. In a ruling issued yesterday, the court refused to become involved in a Suffolk Probate and Family Court case in which the mother of twin…