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0 Comments | Insight on the News, August 13, 2001

* The Federal Election Commission sought to make public 6,000 pages of documents related to charges alleging campaign-activity coordination between the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and the AFL-CIO. But at the last minute the DNC and AFL-CIO got U.S. District Judge Gladys Kessler to suppress the documents, claiming, according to the Washington Times, that the documents contain "proprietary information, including campaign strategy and employees' names."

* U.S. infantry men soon will have available a 45-pound minispy plane, transportable by backpack, to conduct reconnaissance missions (Seattle Times article on the "Dragon Eye" unmanned aerial vehicle developed for the Marine Corps and sought by the Army and Navy).