FOCUS Mining of Data Prompted Fight Over Spying

"A 2004 dispute over the National Security Agency's secret surveillance program that led top Justice Department officials to threaten resignation involved computer searches through massive electronic databases, according to current and former officials briefed on the program," report Scott Shane and David Johnston in Sunday's New York Times.

FOCUS Bush Appointee Blocked Surgeon General's Report

Christopher Lee and Marc Kaufman of the Washington Post report in Sunday's edition that a 2006 report urging Americans to help tackle global health problems was kept from public view largely because it did not promote White House objectives.