The U.S. government has asked a pair of federal judges to dismiss legal challenges to the Bush administration’s controversial domestic eaves dropping program, arguing any court action in the cases would jeopardize secrets in the ongoing war on terrorism.

Gen. Michael Hayden won confirmation as the 20th CIA director Friday in a lopsided Senate vote, placing a career Air Force officer in charge of the civilian spy agency wrestling with intelligence reform at home as well as other international threats.

A very important victory was won today for the rights of internet consumers. The Judiciary Committee today approved a bill to preserve net neutrality. This bipartisan bill would prevent corporate executives from determining what content you are allowed to view on the internet.

The President has bestowed on his intelligence czar, John Negroponte, broad authority to excuse publicly traded companies from their usual accounting and securities-disclosure obligations.

A new Zogby poll reveals that less than half of the American public trusts the official 9/11 story or believes the attacks were adequately investigated.