Cursor's Media Patrol - 12/23/05

Quoting experts who cite the National Security Agency's capacity to 'sift all overseas contacts,' the Boston Globe reports that secret monitoring of international phone calls and e-mails is not limited to Americans suspected of links to terrorism.

In mid-80s memos released by the National Archives, Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito urged that Roe v. Wade should be overturned and that the attorney general should have immunity from lawsuits when authorizing wiretaps.

Norman Solomon foresees "a new salvo of bright spinning lies about the Iraq war," in which "the Bush administration will strive to put any real or imagined reduction of U.S. occupation troop levels in the media spotlight. Meanwhile, the Pentagon will use massive air power in Iraq."