Civil-Rights Panel Blasts Bush Administration

An independent watchdog group highlighted what it called the Bush administration's "neglect" of civil rights and defended affirmative-action policies as the group unveiled a new report in February.

The report, by the Citizens' Commission on Civil Rights, is titled "Rights at Risk: Equality in an Age of Terrorism" (requires Adobe Acrobat Reader, available free). It collected 20 essays from civil-rights experts to argue against what Roger W. Wilkins, a commission member and a professor

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