In what could be a major boost for a campaign that has been stuck in neutral, Republican presidential candidate Fred Thompson is expected to receive the endorsement on Tuesday of the nation’s main anti-abortion group, National Right to Life Committee, according to a Republican source.

The NRLC, which has long praised Thompson’s votes on abortion legislation, is scheduled to make the official announcement at a 10 a.m. ET news conference in Washington, D.C.

This is somewhat surprising given Thompson’s recent statement that he opposes the Human Life Amendment and his failure to make up much ground in the polls.  It’ll be interesting to see whether this helps him to solidify enough support on the right to make a run or just serves to further divide the “not Rudy” forces.

WASHINGTON - As Congress debates new rules for government eavesdropping, a top intelligence official says it is time that people in the United States changed their definition of privacy.Privacy can no longer mean anonymity, says Donald Kerr, the principal deputy director of national intelligence. Instead, it should mean that government and businesses properly safeguard people’s private communications and financial information.Kerr’s comments come as Congress is reviewing the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.

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No, we don’t need to change our definition of privacy, what we need to do is give Donald Kerr a swift kick in the ass. The government is not there to be the guardians of our private information. They are, in fact, the ones our information should be guarded against. This administration is using the War of Terror as a guise to slowly roll out a police state.