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US judge refuses to probe CIA tapes

Mick Meaney January 11, 2008 0

  A US judge has denied a request by a group of Guantanamo inmates to investigate the CIA’s destruction of interrogation videotapes and said a justice department probe of the issue would be sufficient.

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FBI hits a hang-up with wiretaps

Mick Meaney January 11, 2008 0

Surveillance shut off because of unpaid phone bills BY LARA JAKES JORDAN Telephone companies have cut off FBI wiretaps used to eavesdrop on suspected criminals because of the bureau’s repeated failures to pay phone

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Brown cooling towards compulsory ID cards

Mick Meaney January 11, 2008 0

 PM stresses it will be for parliament to decide  He may be seeking wriggle room on issue, says Vaz Patrick Wintour and Will Woodward The Guardian Senior Labour MPs yesterday seized on comments by

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No trust in keeping our data

Mick Meaney January 11, 2008 0

A Record 37-million items of personal data went missing last year, new research by the Liberal Democrats reveals. Most of the data was lost by Government officials, but councils, NHS trusts, banks, insurance companies

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Iran slams US propaganda campaign

Mick Meaney January 11, 2008 0

US is launching a new propaganda campaign against Iran by showing the video of incident in Hormuz Strait, Iran’s Defense Minister Mostafa Mohammad-Najjar says, PressTV reported.Americans have always pursued a vicious plan to present

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History of Rudy Giuliani’s Temper

Mick Meaney January 11, 2008 0

Before he decided that September 11 was his own personal self-aggrandizement machine, Rudy Giuliani pissed off a whole slew of people in a remarkable number of ways. A look at the dark, petty, vindictive,

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US worst in preventable death ranking

Mick Meaney January 11, 2008 0

By Will Dunham France, Japan and Australia rated best and the United States worst in new rankings focusing on preventable deaths due to treatable conditions in 19 leading industrialized nations, researchers said on Tuesday.

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