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Court Documents Shed Light on CIA Illegal Operations

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Sibel Edmonds State Secrets Gallery Connects Pipeline Politics, Madrassas & the Turkish Proxies By Lukery  In a recent immigration court case involving Turkish Islamic Leader, Fetullah Gulen, US prosecutors exposed an illegal, covert, CIA

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Pentagon Claims Cluster Bombs ‘Save Lives’

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By Noah Shachtman  |The Pentagon not only told the world yesterday that it would keep on using cluster bombs — it called the controversial weapons life-savers, too. The Defense Department unveiled its new policy

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Mukasey Refuses to Probe CIA Interrogations

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By JASON RYAN | Attorney General Michael Mukasey has notified the House Judiciary Committee that he will not appoint special counsel to investigate the actions of CIA officers and agents who conducted detainee interrogations

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The Police force with a £320 million budget – but no crime!

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NORTHUMBRIA Police is one of Britain’s biggest and busiest forces. It employs more than 4,000 officers and has a budget of around £320 million a year. Of that, more than £1 million is spent

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EPA Won’t Act on Emissions

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By Juliet Eilperin and R. Jeffrey Smith | The Bush administration has decided not to take any new steps to regulate greenhouse gas emissions before the president leaves office, despite pressure from the Supreme Court

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SECRET RED CROSS REPORT SAYS THE CIA TORTURED AL QAEDA DETAINEES

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Progress Report | “Red Cross investigators concluded last year in a secret report that the Central Intelligence Agency’s interrogation methods for high-level al Qaeda prisoners constituted torture,” according to a new book by investigative

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Marine Describes Killing Prisoners In Iraq

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Sgt. Jermaine Nelson, in a tape-recorded interview, says he and a fellow sergeant were ordered to kill the prisoners during a sweep through a Fallouja neighborhood in 2004. By Tony Perry  CAMP PENDLETON —

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