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Torture Memo Author Declines to Appear Before Senate Commission
Jay S. Bybee, currently a sitting federal judge on the Ninth Circuit of the U.S. Court of Appeals, has declined, through his attorneys, to appear before the Senate Subcommittee of Administrative Oversight and...
created by Karen Hatter | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago
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189 views | 34 recommendations | 4 comments
Dirty! yes dirty practice in the Philippines
Well not so much dirty but unhygienic and not logic thinking, plus people are back to burning bio-gradable waste and causing a fresh pollution problem. The culprit seemingly is Dumaguete City, Negros Oriental, Philippines; Mayor Agustin Ramon M. Perdices or his advisors;... 655 views | 26 recommendations | 4 comments
VP Dick Cheney's Office Suggested Waterboarding Iraqi Prisoner
Former producer and investigative reporter for NBC News, Robert Windrem, reports that two U.S. intelligence officials confirmed the office of Vice President Cheney suggested waterboarding one of Saddam...
created by Karen Hatter | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago
580 views | 48 recommendations | 17 comments
580 views | 48 recommendations | 17 comments
Former FBI Interrogator Dispels Claim of Usefulness of Torture
Ali Soufan, former Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) interrogator, instrumental in gathering information from one of the so called high profile prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay, Abu Zubaydah,...
created by Karen Hatter | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago
244 views | 14 recommendations | 4 comments
244 views | 14 recommendations | 4 comments
Employee Organized: Videos show disturbing fights at Texas School
Corpus Christi State School employees allegedly produced cell phone videos of disturbing scenes of developmentally disabled students fighting each other, and also organized the fights. " In one of the videos...
created by Rhonda J Mangus | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago
864 views | 57 recommendations | 7 comments
864 views | 57 recommendations | 7 comments
Senate Judiciary Hearing on Torture May 13, 2009 at 10:00AM EST
The Senate Judiciary Committee Subcommittee on Administrative Oversight and the Courts begins a hearing entitled What Went Wrong: Torture and the Office of Legal Council in the Bush Administration. Among those...
created by Karen Hatter | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago
319 views | 23 recommendations | 2 comments
319 views | 23 recommendations | 2 comments
Call to Action - Send Comments to the FCC for Community TV
Local media is in crisis. Towns and cities across America are losing their commercial news oulets, while pink slips are being handed to the reporters who once covered our communities. We cannot afford to lose any... Investigation Underway Concerning Tapes Destroyed By CIA in 2005
A Justice Department special counsel, appointed by former Attorney General Michael Mukasey of the Bush administration in December 2007, is investigating the destruction of hundreds of hours of...
created by Karen Hatter | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago
93 views | 22 recommendations | 1 comment
93 views | 22 recommendations | 1 comment
Op-Ed: The Torture Debate - The Missing Voices
Citing the April 2009 release of the International Committee of the Red Cross' (ICRC) report on the abuse of prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba and the recently released torture memos, which circulated...
created by Karen Hatter | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago
112 views | 10 recommendations | 2 comments
112 views | 10 recommendations | 2 comments
Events Come Full Circle: Possible Avoidance of Accountability
George W. Bush, former two term 43rd President of the United States of America has been quoted as saying, in reference to his successor, the 44th President of the United States, Barack Obama: “I want the... 696 views | 88 recommendations | 19 comments
Hiding the Violence: 'Silver Bullet' on the streets of Chicago
Education Secretary Arne Duncan may be right that no "silver bullet" will cure the ills affecting the nation's education system, but the "silver bullet", the metaphor used by Duncan in making his point, is in fact...
created by Rhonda J Mangus | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago
566 views | 92 recommendations | 11 comments
566 views | 92 recommendations | 11 comments
The First 100 Days: Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
Yesterday marked former New York State Senator Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton's 100th day as United States Secretary of State. Mrs. Clinton is the 67th United States Secretary of State, serving in the administration...
created by Rhonda J Mangus | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago
686 views | 52 recommendations | 8 comments
686 views | 52 recommendations | 8 comments
Abu Ghraib Guards Say Memos Prove Them To Be Scapegoats
Initially, in 2004, when photos of prisoners held at Abu Ghraib in Iraq surfaced, the Bush administration declared the actions shown in the photos to be the work of a few "bad apples" . Since the release...
created by Karen Hatter | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago
310 views | 36 recommendations | 1 comment
310 views | 36 recommendations | 1 comment
Mangione Concert to benefit Town of Clarence Flight 3407 Fund
Originally scheduled for February 13th, 2009 at Kleinhan's Music Hall, in Buffalo, New York, the Chuck Mangione concert was postponed after two members of Mangione's band, guitarist Coleman T. Millett and...
created by Rhonda J Mangus | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago
356 views | 36 recommendations | 4 comments
356 views | 36 recommendations | 4 comments
NY Governor: Gay Marriage Opponents Suffer From "Guilt"
New York Governor David Paterson apparently received a warm welcome yesterday from some 2,000 activists who turned out at the Albany state capital for LGBT Equality and Justice Day to lobby both Democratic and GOP...
created by Rhonda J Mangus | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago
202 views | 36 recommendations | 3 comments
202 views | 36 recommendations | 3 comments
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