Washington Bails Out Facebook with a Cash Takeover

Washington DC - In a rare bipartisan action, President Obama has joined with Congress to purchase Internet social media giant Facebook for an undisclosed sum. “If you have to ask how much, you can’t afford...

Liz Cheney Al Qaeda Seven Ad Timed to John Yoo, Jay Bybee Report?

Daphne Eviatar, Senior Associate in Human Rights First’s Law and Security Program observed a possible correlation between the timing of the release of the Keep America Safe Al Qaeda Seven ad by its founder,...

Justice Dept Report Seems to Refute Cheney's Torture Claims

Former Vice President Richard 'Dick' Cheney has long maintained and voiced his belief that the use of what has been termed 'enhanced interrogation techniques' during the Bush administration, also referred...

Letter Reveals How to Politely Decline Being Used

Andrew C. McCarthy sent a letter to U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder yesterday that’s receiving a lot of attention.  A polite “Thanks, but no thanks” means of declining an invitation to participate in a...

Tales from Torture's Dark World

Adapted from a lengthier article written by author Mark Danner, he reveals that during six days in the months of October and eleven days in December of 2006, officials of the Red Cross,...

John Dean: Bush almost became an “unconstitutional dictator”

It was during the Civil War that President Abraham Lincoln became known as a “constitutional dictator,” said former Nixon White House counsel John Dean during a Monday broadcast of MSNBC’s Countdown with...

Justice Department states over a 1000 women forced into slavely

"More than 1,000 mostly young women in the United States were forced into sexual slavery last year, an alarming new Justice Department report has found. The Bureau of Justice Statistics analyzed thousands of cases...

Iraq welcomes charges against Blackwater guards

The "Contractors" known as Blackwater have been a sad representive of the United States from the time the company arrived in Iraq.As made odvious by the incident in 2007 they seem to have taken the law into their...

Anthrax: Hatfill Search Warrants Released

FBI search warrants recently ordered released by a judge show the reasons the FBI suspected Steven Hatfill in the 2001 Anthrax attacks. He had access to a building where anthrax was stored; he described how an anthrax attack could take place in a book he'd written; he told an...

DOJ: Taxpayers will pay for Gonzales' private attorney in prosecutor firing s...

Attorney General Michael Mukasey's Department of Justice says it will pay for Alberto Gonzales to have a private attorney, at up to twice the cost of a DOJ attorney, defend him in a lawsuit related to the DOJ prosecutors who were allegedly fired for not conducting Bush...

Anthrax: Judge Orders Release of Hatfill Search Warrant

Federal Judge Royce Lamberth has ordered the Justice Dept. to make public the search warrants used to raid the homes of Steven Hatfill and his girlfriend. Hatfill was never charged, and after he sued the DoJ, they settled for $5.8 million, and shortly after blamed the attacks...

Author: Officials against torture memo feared wiretaps, physical danger

"According to Jane Mayer, author of The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned Into a War on American Ideals, two top lawyers in the Justice Department who attempted to push back against the authorization of torture by Vice President Cheney's staff became...

Could You be on U.S. Terror Watch List? [the list recently passed the million...

"E.D. HILL, HOST: Putting on his trip, he packed his bags, went to the airport, but then he had to, and continues to have to jump through hoops just to get on the plane. Well, you may have guessed it's because his...

Bush Impeachment Crimes Will Not Be Buried

" Two weeks ago Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) brought an impeachment resolution against President George W. Bush to the House floor.x30x31 It took him nearly five hours to read the resolution’s 35 articles.x32 ...

The U.S.-Mexico Pipeline

BorderReporter.com A quietly released narco-intelligence report shows some hard truths about the U.S.-Mexico border. Now, I’m starting to think we should dump the noun “border.”  Border implies...

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