Tag: corruption
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alberto ‘torture’ gonzales resigns
from raw story: Attorney General Alberto Gonzales announced his resignation Monday, ending months of calls that he would step down from the Justice Department over his role in the dismissal of federal prosecutors and role in expanding the power to spy on Americans. In a news conference Monday morning, Gonzales did not address the reasons…
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nuke weapons lab reports another major security breach
from raw story: A government watchdog group warns that New Mexico’s Los Alamos National Laboratory, one of the nation’s nuclear weapons design laboratories, has again experienced a security failure of ‘the most serious’ level. “An incident involving the unauthorized release of classified data via email occurred last week at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL),” reported…
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army admits dumping chemical weapons at sea
from deep sea news: It is no secret that the U.S. military has used the ocean as trashcan for munitions in the past. Peter discussed at the Old DSN how federal lawmakers were pressing the US Army to reveal everything it knows about a massive international program to dump chemical weapons off homeland and foreign…
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‘giuliani time’
update: the full-length version of ‘giuliani time’ has been pulled from google video. so i’ve posted the trailer for now & you can still download it if you’re hip to torrents… from google video: This documentary examines Giuliani’s rise to power, his policies and his so-called turnaround of New York City. Interviewing journalists, activists, legal…
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cops plead guilty to botched drug raid death
from blacklisted news/ap: Two police officers pleaded guilty Thursday to manslaughter in the shooting death of a 92-year-old woman during a botched drug raid last fall. A third officer still faces charges. Officer J.R. Smith told a state judge Thursday that he regretted what had happened. “I’m sorry,” the 35-year-old said, his voice barely audible.…
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ghouliani haunted by his dirty past
giuliani poll highs could fallfrom rawstory: Former New York City Mayor Rudolf Giuliani is leading the Republican pack in some Election ’08 polls. But the same polls seem to suggest that Giuliani is starting to lose some of his momentum. The drop may continue as allegations rise that his longtime associate Bernard Kerik, onetime nominee…
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war, liquor & mental illness
for US troops at war, liquor is spur to crimefrom raw story/new york times: “Alcohol, strictly forbidden by the American military in Iraq and Afghanistan, is involved in a growing number of crimes committed by troops deployed to those countries. Alcohol- and drug-related charges were involved in more than a third of all Army criminal…
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halliburton’s suspicious dubai move
from abc news: Halliburton Co., currently the largest military contractor in Iraq with billions of dollars in Pentagon contracts, announced Sunday that it was planning to move its CEO and corporate headquarters from Houston to Dubai, the United Arab Emirates. The move could eventually save the firm a fortune in U.S. taxes, but it is…
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feds tried to cut aid for dying weapons workers
from rocky mountain news: Federal officials secretly schemed to limit payouts for sick and dying nuclear weapons workers, including thousands from the Rocky Flats plant outside Denver, newly released documents show. The officials responsible for helping those workers went behind their boss’s back, called on White House officials for help and tried to hide their…
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fbi misused patriot act powers
from ap/yahoo: The FBI improperly and, in some cases, illegally used the USA Patriot Act to secretly obtain personal information about people in the United States, a Justice Department audit concluded Friday. And for three years the FBI underreported to Congress how often it forced businesses to turn over the customer data, the audit found.…
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report finds US terrorism statistics inaccurate
from reuters: Nearly all of the terrorism-related statistics reported by the U.S. Justice Department and the FBI from the September 11 attacks until early 2005 had some inaccuracies, the department’s inspector general said on Tuesday. The findings drew immediate criticism from U.S. senators, who said it raised serious doubts over how effectively the administration was…
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Auditors: Billions Squandered In Iraq
from ap/yahoo: About $10 billion has been squandered by the U.S. government on Iraq reconstruction aid because of contractor overcharges and unsupported expenses, and federal investigators warned Thursday that significantly more taxpayer money is at risk. The three top auditors overseeing work in Iraq told a House committee their review of $57 billion in Iraq…
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air force strips playboy poser of status
from yahoo/ap: An Air Force drill sergeant who posed nude for Playboy magazine has been removed from active duty, she and the Air Force said Wednesday. Michelle Manhart, who appeared in a six-page spread in Playboy’s February issue, said she got word Friday that she was removed from “extended active duty” and was also told…
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news on the march
pig signals conflicts before new world orderfrom breitbart/afp: The world can expect a roller-coaster ride of conflict and unrest, natural disasters and a plunge in global stock markets once the Year of the Pig begins, Chinese soothsayers say… the last time such an arrangement appeared was in 2002, the year that followed the September 11…
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military accepting more ex-cons
from military.com: More recruits with criminal records, including felony convictions, are being allowed to join the U.S. Army and Marine Corps, as the armed services cope with a dwindling pool of volunteers during wartime. The military routinely grants waivers to take in recruits who have criminal records, medical problems or low aptitude scores that would…