City Subpoenas for Access to Tapes of 2004 RNC Protests

FluxRostrum brought this case to may attention.  In New York, the City is trying to get access to the footage taken by RNC Convention protesters and their supporters.  A group has emerged to challenge the request. "At trials stemming from arrests during the 2004...

Justice Dept. Seeks Delay on C.I.A. Inquiry

"The Justice Department asked the House Intelligence Committee on Friday to postpone its investigation into the destruction of videotapes by the Central Intelligence Agency in 2005, saying the Congressional inquiry presented “significant risks” to its own preliminary...

The Destroyed Tapes: A Boon for Conspiracy Theorists

[Ed.note] Hey wait a minute--does that mean that the latest NIE aka National Intelligence Estimate that Iran is not seeking to acquire nuclear weapons, a vast LEFT WING CONSPIRACY? From Time: The CIA has proved, once again, that the cover up is worse than the crime. Or at...

Judge Limits New York Police Taping

New Yorkers are the most-photographed of American Citizens, and not just during fashion week. Just like in London, surveillance cameras have become familiar background objects in day-to-day life, though they have little demonstrable security value. After all, a camera can't...

Setting Back Interfaith Relations by 10 Years

"Sheikh Feiz Mohammed, head of the Global Islamic Youth Centre in Sydney, urged children to become martyrs for Islam and mocked Jewish people as pigs. Police are said to be investigating the tapes, which were exposed in a British TV documentary earlier this week. Top...

The Mystery of the Abu Ghraib Tattoo

One photograph that stands out from all the other photographs.