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Lib Dems criticise gov’t over latest data losses
By Tom Espiner | The Liberal Democrats have taken the government to task following this week’s round of high-profile official data losses, suggesting the breaches show the government could not safely administer an ID card database.
Read More »Blackwater is Still in Charge, Deadly, Above the Law and Out of Control
On June 3, Jeremy Scahill’s bestselling Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army was released in fully revised and updated paperback form. The new edition includes reporting on the now-famous Nisour
Read More »Dems to OK Bush War Funds Without Conditions
By ANDREW TAYLOR | Democratic and GOP leaders in the House announced agreement Wednesday on a long-overdue war funding bill they said President Bush would be willing to sign. The agreement on the war
Read More »Letter to Ian Blair by George Galloway
I write in connection with the police operation surrounding the President George W Bush to Downing Street today. I am not a habitual complainer about the police, as a scan of the public record
Read More »Republicans’ Offshore Drilling Plan Would Expand Dysfunctional System
By Phil Mattera | The response to the politically opportunistic call by the Bush Administration and John McCain to expand offshore oil drilling is being framed primarily in environmental terms. The drilling, which would do
Read More »CIA Played Larger Role In Advising Pentagon
By Joby Warrick | A senior CIA lawyer advised Pentagon officials about the use of harsh interrogation techniques on detainees at Guantanamo Bay in a meeting in late 2002, defending waterboarding and other methods as
Read More »General Accuses White House of War Crimes
By Dan Froomkin | The two-star general who led an Army investigation into the horrific detainee abuse at Abu Ghraib has accused the Bush administration of war crimes and is calling for accountability. In his
Read More »Sweden passes ‘Big Brother bill’
Press TV | Swedish lawmakers vote in favor of a controversial bill allowing all emails and phone calls to be monitored over ‘security issues’. Lawmakers voted late on Wednesday on one of the most
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