Tag: corruption
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ex-lawmaker charged in terror conspiracy
from ap: A former congressman and delegate to the United Nations was indicted Wednesday as part of a terrorist fundraising ring that allegedly sent more than $130,000 to an al-Qaida and Taliban supporter who has threatened U.S. and international troops in Afghanistan. The former Republican congressman from Michigan, Mark Deli Siljander, was charged with money…
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white house ‘reused e-mail tapes’
from ap: The White House has acknowledged recycling its backup computer tapes of e-mail before October 2003, raising the possibility that many electronic messages – including those pertaining to the CIA leak case – have been taped over and are gone forever… The disclosure came minutes before midnight Tuesday under a court-ordered deadline that forced…
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homeland stupidity won’t pay its phone bills
fbi wiretaps dropped due to unpaid billsfrom washington post: The FBI, which has had trouble keeping track of its guns and laptops, also has a chronic problem paying its phone bills on time, according to audit results released today. Telephone companies have repeatedly cut off FBI wiretaps of alleged terrorists and criminal suspects because of…
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unsolved mysteries: danny casolaro
the perplexing case of a freelance journalist, who at the time of his death in 1991, was researching an insidious & wide-ranging conspiracy from wikipedia: Danny Casolaro was found dead in a bathtub in the Sheraton Inn, Martinsburg, West Virginia, one day after allegedly arranging to meet a source in connection with an investigation he…
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video of sleeping guards shakes nuclear industry
from washington post: Kerry Beal was taken aback when he discovered last March that many of his fellow security guards at the Peach Bottom nuclear power plant in Pennsylvania were taking regular naps in what they called “the ready room.” When he spoke to supervisors at his company, Wackenhut Corp., they told Beal to be…
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december clearinghouse
top economist says america could plunge into recession * ohio guard call-up said to be largest since wwii * how to lose your job on your own time * mexico to microchip central american migrants * eli lilly knew prozac had 1200% higher suicide rate than other antidepressants * wtc7: a tale of three broadcasters…
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ten most wanted corrupt politicians of 2007
from judicial watch: Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, today released its 2007 list of Washington’s “Ten Most Wanted Corrupt Politicians.” The list, in alphabetical order, includes: 1. Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY): In addition to her long and sordid ethics record, Senator Hillary Clinton took a lot of…
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ny emergency radio network fails first major test
from the inquirer: A $2 billion installed radio network intended to connect emergency responders throughout the New York state failed its first major test. This all sounds a lot like 9/11’s radio fiasco shown in Robert Greenwald’s film about how poorly Motorola’s radios worked during the infamous Twin Towers disaster in New York City. Think…
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lee hamilton: cia obstructed the 9/11 commission
from depauw university: “Did they obstruct our inquiry? The answer is clearly yes,” says Lee Hamilton, who co-chaired the 9/11 Commission, in the wake of reports the CIA destroyed videotapes of interrogations of two al-Qaida suspects. “Whether that amounts to a crime, others will have to judge,” adds Hamilton, a 1952 graduate of DePauw University,…
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buzzy’s brother quits the state department
inspector general will leave state departmentfrom washington post: Howard J. Krongard, the State Department’s embattled inspector general, announced yesterday that he is stepping down next month, ending a turbulent tenure in which he came under fire from employees and lawmakers and was accused of impeding key Iraq-related investigations… Current and former department officials have charged…
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hayden: cia destroyed videotapes of ‘interrogation’
from ap: The CIA videotaped its interrogations of two terror suspects in 2002 and destroyed the tapes three years later out of fear they would leak to the public and compromise the identities of U.S. questioners, the director of the agency told employees Thursday. CIA Director Michael Hayden said House and Senate intelligence committee leaders…
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giuliani did business with sheikh tied to 9/11 plot
from huffington post: Giuliani’s bid for the GOP nomination may be on the verge of capsizing amidst a perfect storm of sex, money and terrorists. Links to terrorists, that is. Oy. Ben Smith of Politico.com posted a story of Giuliani’s shady financial records while mayor, but it is Wayne Barrett of The Village Voice with…
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‘link iraq to iran,’ rumsfeld argued before proof
from raw story: Ten months before the US aired formal proof of Iranian involvement in funding Iraqi insurgents, then-Secretary of Defense warned in secret Pentagon memos that Iran should be the “concern of the American people” and he issued explicit instructions to the military. “[L]ink Iraq to Iran,” Rumsfeld wrote in one of thousands of…
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gap vows action after child labor report
from ap: Clothing retailer Gap Inc. said Sunday that it will convene all of its Indian suppliers to “forcefully reiterate” its prohibition on child labor after a British newspaper found children as young as 10 making Gap clothes at a sweatshop in New Delhi. The Observer newspaper quoted the children as saying they had been…
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state dept can’t account for $1b paid to dyncorp
question: how much was spent on establishing a prostitution and slave ring in bosnia? from nytimes: A pair of new reports have delivered sharply critical judgments about the State Department’s performance in overseeing work done by the private companies that the government relies on increasingly in Iraq and Afghanistan to carry out delicate security work…
