A court overstepped its authority by trying to force the New York Police Department to release of hundreds of pages of documents about its infiltration of protest groups before the 2004 Republican National Convention, an appeals court found Wednesday.
Rep. Dennis Kucinich, D-Ohio, is leading a small band of lawmakers who say the United States is overextending its authority by going into Afghanistan and want a withdrawal in 30 days.
The Department of Homeland Security could be severely hampered in its effort to enforce any new airline security restrictions by an obvious fact: its authority ends at the nation’s borders.?
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It’s a first step: “GAO accepts your request as work that is within the scope of its authority,” wrote Ralph Dawn, managing director of GAO’s government relations department.
