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Even though poor Sen. Harry Reid insists on calling the Senate's latest attempt to inundate the nation with hordes of suddenly legalized illegal immigrants the president's bill, it is really Sen. Kennedy's monstrosity.

The president, desperate to get any kind of amnesty measure through Congress while he's still in the White House, has embraced the Kennedy bill, but that doesn't change the fact that it's Kennedy's illegitimate offspring. Mr. Bush has simply become the kid's Godfather.

He's not alone. Some Republicans, oblivious of the fact that their backing of the bill is nothing less than a suicide pact for GOP chances of ever staging a comeback, are going all-out to convince the nation of the absurdity that granting amnesty to millions of immigrants now here illegally is the best way to stem the tide of illegal immigrants flooding across our borders.

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WASHINGTON - Long-secret documents released Tuesday provide new details about how the CIA illegally spied on Americans decades ago, including trying to bug a Las Vegas hotel room for evidence of infidelity and tracking down an expert lock picker for a Watergate conspirator.

Known inside the agency as the "family jewels," the 702 pages of documents released Tuesday catalog domestic wiretapping operations, failed assassination plots, mind-control experiments and spying on journalists from the early years of the CIA.

The papers provide evidence of paranoia and occasional incompetence as the agency began a string of illegal spying operations in the 1960s and 1970s, often to hunt links between communist governments and the domestic protests that roiled the nation during that period.

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WASHINGTON (AP) -- The CIA released hundreds of heavily censored documents Tuesday about its spying on Americans, foreign assassination plots and other misdeeds that triggered a scandal in the mid-1970s.

Known inside the CIA as the "family jewels," the documents were released with vast sections blocked out by agency censors. As a result, they were far less revealing than the reports issued in the mid-1970s by the three investigations which obtained unedited versions of these internal CIA documents a generation ago.

The ensuing scandal sullied the reputation of the intelligence community and led to new rules for the CIA, FBI and other spy agencies and new permanent committees in Congress to oversee them.

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Parnaz Azima, who works for the U.S.-funded Radio Farda, spoke with WTOP radio in a telephone conversation that she said she believed was being monitored, noting that she had been followed and photographed since her detention began.

Azima said the Bush administration's $66 million campaign to promote change inside Iran through Persian-language news, entertainment and music broadcasts has spurred President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's government to work to eliminate Iran's democracy movement.

"I hope that Mr. Bush's administration doesn't repeat this. This is a very serious mistake," she said. "The open announcements about funding democracy in Iran have angered the government and now they have one goal - to crush those activities and to put pressure on the Iranian activists, especially those who are inside Iran."

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WASHINGTON - Republican support for the Iraq war is slipping by the day. After four years of combat and more than 3,560 U.S. deaths, two Republican senators previously reluctant to challenge President Bush on the war announced they could no longer support the deployment of 157,000 troops and asked the president to begin bringing them home.

"We must not abandon our mission, but we must begin a transition where the Iraqi government and its neighbors play a larger role in stabilizing Iraq," Sen. George Voinovich, R-Ohio, wrote in a letter to Bush.

Voinovich, a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, released his letter Tuesday - one day after Sen. Richard Lugar of Indiana, the panel's top Republican, said in a floor speech that Bush's strategy was not working.

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