The Washington Post reports, "The Justice Department said yesterday that it has reopened an internal investigation of the role played by its lawyers in the administration's warrantless surveillance program, marking a notable policy shift just days into the tenure of new Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey." According to the report, "The investigation by the Office of Professional Responsibility was abandoned in July 2006 after President Bush refused to give security clearances to the OPR lawyers conducting the investigation, according to documents and congressional testimony."

"As Congress debates new rules for government eavesdropping," the Associated Press reports, "a top intelligence official says it is time that people in the United States changed their definition of privacy." According to the report, Donald Kerr, the principal deputy director of national intelligence recently declared, "Privacy no longer can mean anonymity. Instead, it should mean that government and businesses properly safeguard people's private communications and financial information."

The New York Sun reports that a federal appellate court in New York has recently given the go-ahead to a historic class-action suit against businesses that sold to South Africa's apartheid regime. According to the report, "the decision has put the world's largest companies on notice that they can be held liable for doing business with foreign regimes that commit human-rights abuses."