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Cafferty: Leaked Inside Look At Guantanamo ‘A Little Scary’
Post Date: 2007-11-17 15:01:18 by Zipporah
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Play (99) Cafferty: “We’ve got an inside look at the early days of Guantanamo Bay prison camp. It’s emerging and it’s a little scary. A confidential 2003 manual that was leaked onto the internet shows that military officials had a policy of denying some detainees access to Red Cross monitors. … Some experts are saying that this policy may in fact have violated international law. …” The Guantanamo prison camp’s 2003 field operations manual was posted on Wikileaks, a Web site that encourages posting of leaked materials. The Pentagon claims “that the manual appeared genuine but described outdated policies and that all Guantánamo ...
Police To Search For Guns In Homes
Post Date: 2007-11-17 12:23:54 by JiminyC
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Police To Search For Guns In Homes City program depends on parental consent By Maria Cramer Globe Staff / November 17, 2007 Boston police are launching a program that will call upon parents in high-crime neighborhoods to allow detectives into their homes, without a warrant, to search for guns in their children's bedrooms. more stories like this The program, which is already raising questions about civil liberties, is based on the premise that parents are so fearful of gun violence and the possibility that their own teenagers will be caught up in it that they will turn to police for help, even in their own households. In the next two weeks, Boston police officers who are assigned to ...
Liberty Dollar Affidavit found!
Post Date: 2007-11-17 11:50:20 by JiminyC
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Here. This has since been sealed by the Feds. Download it and pass it around.
House keeps AT&T on the hook for spying on America, Senate next?
Post Date: 2007-11-17 11:25:36 by robin
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House keeps AT&T on the hook for spying on America, Senate next? Posted by Cory Doctorow, November 17, 2007 1:54 AM | permalink The Electronic Frontier Foundation's Danny O'Brien sez, ""Word from the EFF on the Hill: The House just passed their FISA reform bill without clauses that would give telecoms like AT&T immunity from prosecution for assisting in illegal wiretapping programs. No vote yet in the Senate, but a version of the bill without immunity passed Judiciary, and rumors say that's the version that Dem. Senate leadership is going to put forward for Senate vote." Link (Thanks, Danny!) See also:AT&T wiretapping: Your ...
Help! Need a copy of the Liberty Dollar affidavit
Post Date: 2007-11-17 11:08:20 by JiminyC
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From WashPo article: "But bloggers at the libertarian Reason Foundation posted online a 35-page copy of the affidavit for a search warrant filed last week in Asheville, N.C., laying out the government's case against Norfed." Anyone have the affidavit? I have copies of the warrants.
Northern Rock chief and seven directors quit
Post Date: 2007-11-17 08:41:26 by DeaconBenjamin
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Northern Rock chief executive Adam Applegarth and seven other directors have stepped down from the board on a day of high drama that saw the crippled bank receive at least two bid proposals. Chairman Bryan Sanderson cleared out almost the entire board and replaced them with two renowned troubleshooters – John Devaney, chairman of Telent, and Simon Laffin, formerly Safeway's finance director. They join as non-executive directors. Mr Sanderson added that a third will be appointed shortly. Mr Applegarth tendered his resignation but will continue as chief executive until the end of January to see through "the second phase of the strategic review", after which he will step ...
FBI reviewing Tasering of sleeping man; no charges file
Post Date: 2007-11-16 23:24:03 by Zipporah
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FBI reviewing Tasering of sleeping man; no charges fileThe Associated PressNORTH BRADDOCK, Pa. - Two North Braddock police officers won't face criminal charges for Tasering a man who was asleep at home. But the FBI will review the incident for possible civil rights violations.Allegheny County District Attorney Stephen Zappala Jr. says county police determined Officers Gerard Kraly and Lukas Laeuricia (loo-REE'-see-uh) didn't commit a crime when they Tasered Shawn Hicks, who was sleeping on his couch.Police came to Hicks home because they were alerted by a silent security alarm at his home about 2 a.m.Hicks says the officers Tasered him again after he woke up and showed them ID ...
Attorney Argues For Rastafarian Client: Judge Doesn't Buy That Marijuana Is A 'God-Given Right'
Post Date: 2007-11-16 21:05:15 by Zipporah
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Attorney Argues For Rastafarian Client: Judge Doesn't Buy That Marijuana Is A 'God-Given Right'2007-11-16 >> news category >> generalSource: www.theday.comDefense attorney Ronald F. Stevens' presentation in New London Superior Court Thursday could have been called “Marijuana 101.” His client, 42-year-old Vernon Smith of Norwich, had pleaded guilty to two counts of possession of marijuana with intent to sell after police found him with more than 20 pounds of the drug earlier this year. As a Rastafarian who believes that selling, trading and possessing marijuana is “a God-given right,” Smith had asked his lawyer to argue his point of ...
Bush support for sea treaty affirmed 'I understand there are concerns. We believe those have been addressed'
Post Date: 2007-11-16 19:39:55 by FOH
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Posted: November 16, 20071:00 a.m. Eastern © 2007 WorldNetDaily.com The president continues to support the pending Law of the Sea Treaty, but a spokeswoman isn't going to speculate on how it would have affected critical U.S. operations on the sea had it been adopted earlier. The issue was resurrected recently in the U.S. Senate at President Bush's urging even though critics making up a wide-ranging chorus have concluded it would grant the United Nations control of 70 percent of the planet under its oceans, and undermine U.S. sovereignty. The plan recently was approved by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, on a 17-4 vote, and now must go ...
Charges dropped against last of 'Los Angeles Eight'
Post Date: 2007-11-15 20:38:57 by Zipporah
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Charges dropped against last of 'Los Angeles Eight'By Michel Shehadeh 11/15/07 "ICH" -- -- For the last 20 years, the U.S. government has accused me of being a terrorist. Along with six other Palestinians and a Kenyan, we were dubbed the "Los Angeles Eight" by the media. Our case even made it to the U.S. Supreme Court. On Oct. 30 - 20 grueling years after the early morning raid in which armed federal agents barged into my apartment, brutally arrested me before my 3-year-old son's eyes, incarcerated me in maximum security cells in San Pedro State Prison for 23 days without bond, and attempted to deport me - the government dropped all charges fabricated ...
CIA failed to turn over interrogation tapes in Moussaoui case
Post Date: 2007-11-15 19:13:37 by Zipporah
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ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Prosecutors have told a federal judge that the CIA possessed videotaped interrogations of enemy combatants despite earlier telling the judge in the trial of al-Qaida terrorist Zacarias Moussaoui that no such recordings existed. In a letter made public in redacted form Tuesday, U.S. Attorney Chuck Rosenberg said the CIA was mistaken when it claimed on separate occasions in 2003 and 2005 that no such recordings existed. Since then, the government has found two video tapes and one audio tape of interrogations. None of the interrogations relates directly to the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks or the Moussaoui case, the government said. Moreover, the issue is moot since a jury failed ...
Committee passes surveillance laws update in face of veto threat
Post Date: 2007-11-15 15:55:01 by aristeides
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Committee passes surveillance laws update in face of veto threat By Terry Frieden CNN WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The Senate Judiciary Committee Thursday passed on a strict party-line vote an update to the nation's electronic surveillance laws despite a veto threat from the attorney general. The bill would mean the nation's intelligence services do not need to request a court warrant to monitor foreign-to-foreign communications involving suspected terrorists. All 10 Democrats on the committee voted for the measure, while all nine Republicans opposed it. Republicans objected to the effort to push through a complicated Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act modernization plan on which ...
Boston Police Arrest Veterans at Event
Post Date: 2007-11-14 21:39:19 by Jethro Tull
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By Associated Press BOSTON (AP) - Several anti-war veterans are out on bail after police in Boston arrested them at a Veterans Day event for refusing to move away from a podium. The Boston chapter of a group called Veterans for Peace says about 15 of its members and supporters were arrested yesterday at the American Legion's event. Group member and Vietnam War veteran Winston Warfield says the American Legion rejected his group's request to have a speaker at the event outside City Hall. He says since Veterans for Peace is opposed to the U.S. invasion of Iraq and what he calls the "planned invasion of Iran," a lot of veterans view them as traitors. Warfield says ...
Gitmo operating manual leak
Post Date: 2007-11-14 19:48:03 by Zipporah
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Wikileaks has turned up a copy of a 2003 standard operating procedure manual for the prison camp at Guantanamo Bay. Dakwar sees hints of Abu Ghraib in a section instructing guards to use dogs to intimidate prisoners. He also raises concerns over a section on the International Committee of the Red Cross, or ICRC, which indicates that some prisoners were hidden from Red Cross representatives. The manual shows how the military coded each prisoner according to the level of access the Red Cross would have. The four levels are: * No Access * Visual Access -- ICRC can only look at a prisoner's physical condition. * Restricted Access -- ICRC representatives can only ask short questions ...
Cafferty: I trust government to guard our privacy, don't you?
Post Date: 2007-11-14 15:05:35 by robin
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CNN's Jack Cafferty of the Cafferty File joined CNN's Wolf Blitzer on Monday to discuss a Bush Administration intelligence's official suggestion that the American people need to "redefine privacy" in order to confront the threats of the 21st century. In late October, as the Associated Press reported, Donald Kerr, Principal Deputy Directory of National Intelligence, delivering the keynote address at GEOINT 2007 (the annual United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation symposium), said that today's times called for a new definition of privacy. "Too often, privacy has been equated with anonymity; and it's an idea that is deeply rooted in American ...
YOUR PAPERS, PLEASE ...Dont answer Census, don't face going to jail
Post Date: 2007-11-14 08:40:08 by AllTheKings'HorsesWontDoIt
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YOUR PAPERS, PLEASE ... Don't answer Census, don't face going to jail Government demands answers, but official confirms penalties not applied Posted: November 14, 2007 By Bob Unruh © 2007 http://WorldNetDaily.com Another month is coming, and another 250,000 forms are being mailed out in the U.S. Census Bureau's perpetual American Community Survey, which demands responses to personal questions about a family's lifestyle, housing accommodations, work schedules, physical and mental disabilities, income and the like. That means roughly 250,000 times recipients will see the warning that participation is required by law, and there are penalties including fines for not ...
Senate Judiciary Poised to Pass Total Information Awareness Bill
Post Date: 2007-11-13 00:21:55 by kiki
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Amid public outcry, in 2003, Congress defunded the Bush Administration's Total Information Awareness (TIA) project, a massive Orwellian technology-driven surveillance and data mining initiative. Now, it is attempting to pass through the FISA Amendments Act of 2007 (S. 2248), a bill that would affectively give legal standing and retroactive legal immunity to a major component of this project. S. 2248 is now before the Senate Judiciary, and will be voted on in just a few days. Unless public opposition is once again vigilant and strong, this new TIA bill has a good chance of passing in committee and of reaching the full Senate floor. Unfortunately, the dire consequences of this ...
Bush's Disdainful Presidency
Post Date: 2007-11-12 21:01:06 by YertleTurtle
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The U.S. news media always makes light of George W. Bush’s tendency to put down others through disparaging comments about their personal appearances or by assigning them silly nicknames. It’s just the “inner frat boy” coming out, we’re told. So, when U.S. News cited “a top insider” describing how Bush likes to fart in the presence of junior White House staffers as a joke on them, the item was given the boys-will-be-boys title: “Animal House in the West Wing.” According to U.S. News, Bush was just “a funny, earthy guy who, for example, can’t get enough of fart jokes. He’s also known to cut a few for laughs, especially when ...
Military leaked waterboarding instructional video for the beginner interrogator.
Post Date: 2007-11-12 20:49:28 by Zipporah
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Deroy Murdock National Review: Waterboarding Has Its Benefits"
U.S. District Judge to White House: Hold E-Mails, Backup Tapes
Post Date: 2007-11-12 17:23:40 by Brian S
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WASHINGTON (AP) - A federal judge Monday ordered the White House to preserve copies of all its e-mails, a move that Bush administration lawyers had argued strongly against. U.S. District Judge Henry Kennedy directed the Executive Office of the President to safeguard the material in response to two lawsuits that seek to determine whether the White House has destroyed e-mails in violation of federal law. The White House is seeking dismissal of the lawsuits brought by two private groups - Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Government and the National Security Archive. The organizations allege the disappearance of 5 million White House e-mails. The court order issued by Kennedy, an ...
The Dam - Hilarious letter sent to the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Quality by homeowner
Post Date: 2007-11-12 09:28:40 by Jethro Tull
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The Dam This is an actual letter sent to a man named Ryan DeVries regarding a pond on his property. It was sent by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Quality, State of Pennsylvania. This guy's response is hilarious, but read the State's letter before you get to the response letter. SUBJECT: DEQ File No.97-59-0023; T11N; R10W, Sec. 20; Lycoming County Dear Mr. DeVries: It has come to the attention of the Department of Environmental Quality that there has been recent unauthorized activity on the above referenced parcel of property. You have been certified as the legal landowner and/or contractor who did the following unauthorized activity: Construction and ...
Supreme Court May Take First Look At Second Amendment Rights In 70 Years
Post Date: 2007-11-11 20:51:18 by Brian S
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Supreme Court justices have track records that make predicting their rulings on many topics more than a mere guess. Then there is the issue of the Second Amendment and guns, about which the court has said virtually nothing in nearly 70 years. That could change in the next few months. The justices are facing a decision about whether to hear an appeal from city officials in Washington, D.C., wanting to keep the capital's 31-year ban on handguns. A lower court struck down the ban as a violation of the Second Amendment rights of gun ownership. The prospect that the high court might define gun rights under the Constitution is making people on both sides of the issue nervous. "I ...
Desegregation Rulings Cause Confusion
Post Date: 2007-11-11 20:45:12 by Brian S
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(11-11) 11:57 PST (AP) -- Officials in Shelby County, Tenn., complain they'll have to spend millions to satisfy a federal judge's "arbitrary" desegregation order. It'll mean busing minority students up to an hour away and replacing hundreds of white teachers with black ones, they say. In Huntsville, Ala., under a similar court order, students can transfer from a school where they're in the racial majority, but not the other way around. And in the Tucson, Ariz., Unified School District, students could move from one school to another only if the change improved "the ethnic balance of the receiving school and (did) not further imbalance the ethnic makeup of ...
Intel Official: Say Goodbye to Privacy
Post Date: 2007-11-11 12:57:45 by freepatriot32
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WASHINGTON (AP) - A top intelligence official says it is time people in the United States changed their definition of privacy. Privacy no longer can mean anonymity, says Donald Kerr, the principal deputy director of national intelligence. Instead, it should mean that government and businesses properly safeguards people's private communications and financial information. Kerr's comments come as Congress is taking a second look at the Foreign Surveillance Intelligence Act. Lawmakers hastily changed the 1978 law last summer to allow the government to eavesdrop inside the United States without court permission, so long as one end of the conversation was reasonably believed to be ...
Anti-war vets banned from Long Beach Veteran's Day parade
Post Date: 2007-11-10 16:03:41 by robin
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LONG BEACH, Calif.—Anti-war vets have been banned from marching in the 11th Veterans Day Parade in Long Beach. A participation application filed by Iraq Veterans Against the War, Veterans for Peace and Military Families Speak Out was turned down because organizers want Saturday's parade free from politics. "They do not fit the spirit of the parade, the spirit being one of gratitude for what the veterans have done," said Martha Thuente, coordinator for the nonprofit Veterans Day Parade Committee. "We do not want groups of a political nature, advocating the troops' withdrawal from Iraq," she added. Some veterans and anti-war groups were unhappy. ...
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