WICHITA | A federal judge on Thursday denied the government's efforts to gag defense attorneys, family and supporters of a Kansas doctor accused of unlawfully prescribing medication.

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SEATTLE -- A pain treatment advocacy group filed suit Wednesday in federal court to challenge the restrictions Washington state officials have put on prescription pain medication.

The nonprofit Pain Relief Network says the guidelines for prescribing narcotics, written by the Washington state Department of Health and published in March 2007, have influenced pain treatment across the country and have made doctors afraid to give opiate prescriptions.

Former 'Gagged' FBI Whistleblower Alleges Pentagon, State Department
Officials Overheard Receiving Payoffs in Exchange for Classified Info;
Crimes Covered Up at Highest Levels of Government

Manalapan, NJ - A Superior Court judge in New Jersey quashed a bogus
subpoena for the identity of an anonymous blogger Friday, protecting
the free speech rights of a critic writing about a local government
controversy.

CIA Announces Declassification of 1970s "Skeletons" File, Archive Posts Justice Department Summary from 1975, With White House Memcons on Damage Control

Jennifer Daskal of HRW talks about Habeas Corpus and what an unlawful enemy combatant is.Just returned from Guantanamo Bay Cuba, Jennifer Daskal, Advocacy Director of the U.S. Program at Human Rights Watch explains the difference between "unlawful" and "lawful" combatants, and says Habeas Corpus should be restored to detainees.

Other critics are lambasting federal agencies for not having done enough to stop Speaker. Stop him from what? Getting on a plane when he had broken no law? Do we really want the government to be able to detain someone simply because he may have a disease that is serious but is not a threat to others? Should a citizen's own government be allowed to turn him away at the border as he seeks to re-enter his country, just because someone decided to place him on an advisory "watch list"? I think not.

• UPDATE: DHS has released an e-mail address where you can submit REAL ID comments. The subject line must include the Docket No. DHS-2006-0030. Send your comments to oscomments@dhs.gov. Click here to open an e-mail window with the sample comments included.
• A broad coalition of organizations across the United States is urging the public to submit comments rejecting the illegal national identification system created under the Department of Homeland Security's REAL ID program.
• Five states and several members of Congress have rejected the scheme, which creates a massive national ID system without adequate security or privacy safeguards, which makes it more difficult and costly for people to get licenses, and which makes it easier for identity thieves to access the personal data of 245 million license and cardholders nationwide.
• To take action and submit comments against this fundamentally flawed national ID system, click here! Comments are due by 5pm EST on May 8, 2007.