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2002-01-01 (Tuesday) - 8:14 a.m.
Bush power grabBush's "most assertive action was a November order establishing military tribunals for accused terrorists, but Mr. Bush has also moved to keep presidential papers secret and permitted sweeping government efforts to investigate anyone suspected of terrorism. To help in those investigations, he expanded government wiretapping and allowed the monitoring of communications between some people in federal custody and their lawyers," write Elisabeth Bumiller and David E. Sanger in today's New York Times.
