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What are they hiding?
A federal judge has taken a significant step in dismantling the wall of secrecy the Bush administration has needlessly built around the White House. Judge Royce Lamberth ruled that White House visitors logs were
Read More »UN expresses “grave concern” over CIA torture
UN representative expresses “grave concern” over CIA torture, Guantánamo hearings By Naomi Spencer Following a visit earlier this month to the US military prison at Guantánamo Bay, a United Nations human rights representative reported
Read More »Hearing into destroyed CIA tapes
A US judge last night ordered the Bush administration to explain whether the CIA violated a court order by destroying videotapes of the harsh interrogations of two terrorism suspects. US District Court Judge Henry
Read More »Motion Picture Association censors out US torture
Motion Picture Association censors out US torture Denial of US torture is everywhere, the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) had decided that the US public will not be allowed to see posters for
Read More »NSA Controls SSL Email Hosting Services
Just learned following within the past few days: Certain privacy/full session SSL email hosting services have been purchased/changed operational control by NSA and affiliates within the past few months, through private intermediary entities. Hushmail:
Read More »Freaked Out About FaceBook
thought the creepiest things to happen to social networking was when old guys, claiming to be eighteen-years-old started roaming social networks like MySpace and FaceBook looking to hook up with fifteen-year-olds.But now there’s a
Read More »Chancellor should withdraw funding for ID cards
Alistair Darling’s promise to increase penalties for wilful misuse of data is a wholly inappropriate response to recent data losses. If the police are unable now to apprehend fraudsters operating from beyond British jurisdiction,
Read More »Keystone cops: CIA should explain destroyed tapes
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
Read More »‘Innocent man Tasered eight times’
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,
Read More »Government’s ‘Cavalier attitude to personal data’
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
Read More »Millions more ID records go missing
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
Read More »Sealed Off by Israel, Gaza Reduced to Beggary
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
Read More »VIDEO: Rare Footage – Flight 93 crashes
Rare Footage – Flight 93 – September 11 2001 investigate911.se/ “Ultra-rare news footage from the crash site of United Flight 93 which has never been seen again since 9/11″ Do you see any airplane?
Read More »VIDEO: The brutal reality of Americas police
A shocking look at american justice . in 3 years there were 2002 people killed in police custudy
Read More »VIDEO: Example of the 1 Minute Voting Machine Hack
It only takes a minute to steal a U.S. Election!
Read More »BBC should not decide how society develops
By Janet Daley What is the BBC for? You might think that there was a pretty straightforward answer to that question, or at least that the answer provided by Lord Reith (“to inform, educate
Read More »British Investigator Is Subject of Probe
By Joby Warrick He has criticized British officials in nuclear smuggling case. A British customs agent who investigated the nuclear smuggling network of Pakistani scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan has himself become the target of
Read More »Top Republican defies Bush
Top Republican defies Bush, pledges investigation into destroyed CIA tapes WASHINGTON — The top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee defied the Bush administration Sunday and pledged to investigate the destruction of CIA interrogation
Read More »Griffiths urged to oppose plan for national ID cards
EDINBURGH South MP Nigel Griffiths has been urged to withdraw his support for the Government’s ID cards scheme by his Lib Dem rivals. Former councillor Fred Mackintosh, the Liberal Democrat’s Edinburgh South parliamentary spokesman,
Read More »Britain bows out of a war it could never have won
By Patrick Cockburn Britain handed over security in Basra province yesterday, bringing a formal end to its ill-starred attempt over almost five years to control southern Iraq. The transfer of power was marked by
Read More »Congress vows to probe CIA tapes
US Congress has vowed to investigate the CIA’s destruction of videotapes despite Justice Department advice that the agency not cooperate. Republican US Rep. Pete Hoekstra of Michigan said on Sunday that “we want to
Read More »Bush ‘twisting NIE to support Iran war’
US intelligence agencies would not have published the NIE with ‘high confidence’ unless they were quite sure, a US analyst has said. Bush is now trying his best to twist and warp the published
Read More »FOX News Almost Silent As Violence Escalates
FOX News Becomes Almost Silent As Violence Escalates All Across Iraq BILL CORCORAN FOX News has fallen back into their pre-”surge” days when finding news about the Iraq war was like finding the proverbial
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