Influence & publicity concern for NYS OCFS Commissioner Carrion

Influence and publicity are apparently a major concern for  New York State Office of Children and Family Service's (NYS OCFS) Commissioner Gladys Carrion who recently came under fire by the U.S. Department of...

Physicians for Human Rights: More Torture Investigation Needed

In an eight page paper entitled, Aiding Torture: Health Professionals' Ethics and Human Rights Violations Revealed in the May 2004 CIA Inspector General's Report, Physicians for Human Rights...

Atty General Holder Wants Complete Report on Bush Lawyers ASAP

On Wednesday, June 17, 2009, appearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Attorney General Eric Holder characterized the delay in the release of the Office of Professional Responsibility's...

Gay Democratic donors boycotting DNC fundraiser

Obama's broken promise has Gay Democratic donors boycotting a Democratic National Committee fundraiser to be held next Thursday, June 25th, because they are outraged by President Obama's legal brief filed last week...

Conservative Talk Show Host 'Mancow' is Waterboarded

Shortly after 6 seconds, WLS radio host Erich 'Mancow' Muller signaled Marine Sergeant Clay South, who handled the waterboarding demonstration, that he had had enough. Stating he had wanted to...

Baroness Scotland Attorney General Fraud Scandal - Carroll Case

Baroness Scotland - Britain's Attorney General the most senior law enforcement officer is the subject of serious corruption allegations in the United Kingdom's longest running largest organised criminal conspiracy...

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...

Op-Ed : Accountability for Torture

Outlining past examples of abuse of power, this article provides a foundation that contends that Congress' refusal to address abuses of former and sitting presidents, with Iran/Contra offered as an...

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...

CIA Contracted Psychologists Approved Torture Methods Used

Referring to the CIA's practice of an " .... increased pressure phase" , this article describes limiting prisoners' human contact to two persons, the CIA interrogator and a psychologist. Methods of...

USDOJ's Leader of Internal Ethics Replaced

Attorney General Eric Holder will name Mary Patrice Brown as the Internal Ethics Leader at United States Justice Department, a thoroughly corrupt federal agency in my opinion.  Attorney General Holder is...

Medical Personnel Present During Torture at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba

Stunning information from a 2007 International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) report reveals medical personnel's involvement during the torture of prisoners of war held at Guantanamo Bay, called...

Failure of Public officials to protect the Environment

Regardless of where you live in the state Elected Public officials tend to forget the voters who put them in office in the first place. when  an issue that has great public interest  as the environment  The public officials cater more to the industry and the...

Ethical Concerns Surround Crafting of U.S. Torture Policy

Investigation of the policy guidelines used to justify so called harsh interrogation tactics, such as 'waterboarding', are under scrutiny as to the origin of the flow for development of the policies implemented...

Year In Review: Huge Spike In Gay-Related Violence

  "There has definitely been a huge spike. I don't think anybody knows why," Wilchins said. Since 1992, the Department of Justice, through the FBI, has jointly published an annual report on Hate Crime...

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