Daily Archives: December 18, 2007 »

Keystone cops: CIA should explain destroyed tapes

Mick Meaney December 18, 2007 0

The CIA and the public should already know who ordered interrogation tapes destroyed, and why Since the news broke that the CIA had destroyed hundreds of hours of videotapes of the interrogation of two

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‘Innocent man Tasered eight times’

Mick Meaney December 18, 2007 0

Police are investigating a complaint that a man who later proved to be unarmed and innocent was repeatedly shocked with a Taser gun. Daniel Sylvester, the 45-year-old owner of an east London security firm,

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Government’s ‘Cavalier attitude to personal data’

Mick Meaney December 18, 2007 0

Commenting on yesterday’s statement by the Department for Transport Ruth Kelly on the loss of details of three million driving test candidates, Liberal Democrat Shadow Transport Secretary, Susan Kramer MP said: “This is yet

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Millions more ID records go missing

Mick Meaney December 18, 2007 0

Philip Webster The records of more than three million British learner drivers have gone missing from a “secure facility” in the US, an embarrassed Government admitted last night. Labour’s dismal autumn hit another low

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Sealed Off by Israel, Gaza Reduced to Beggary

Mick Meaney December 18, 2007 1

Scott Wilson GAZA CITY — The batteries are the size of a button on a man’s shirt, small silvery dots that power hearing aids for several hundred Palestinian students taught by the Atfaluna Society

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