Tag: doj
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spies, lies & fbi, kbr, ss sex, spitzer, byrd, hatfill & more
the big apple’s eyeing youfrom nypost: They’re watching you. The NYPD’s plan to have 5,000 cameras trained on every sidewalk crack south of Canal Street has begun in a space-age hub that will be operating by the end of the month. The “Ring of Steel” command center – which will keep 24-hour watch on high-profile…
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selection ’08: disillusion, reality, excuses & transitions
the obamessiah is going to produce profound disillusion from telegraph: There is a video clip running on YouTube at the moment which shows a black woman moved nearly to tears at an Obama rally, telling a television interviewer that all her problems will be at an end when he is elected president. She won’t have…
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mukasey/mueller powergrab: informants, spies & lies
from washington post: Justice Department officials released new guidelines yesterday that empower FBI agents to use intrusive techniques to gather intelligence within the United States, alarming civil liberties groups and Democratic lawmakers who worry that they invite privacy violations and other abuses. The new road map allows investigators to recruit informants, employ physical surveillance and…
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police state usa: pandemic drills, cog, corruption & surveillance
‘vigilant guard’ managers put the kaboom in terrorism exercisesfrom national guard bureau: KaBOOM! Exercise managers for the Vigilant Guard homeland security exercise here added realism Sept. 16 by blowing up balloons filled with explosive gas. KaPOW! They tested the balloons today. Tomorrow the noisemakers will prompt police swat teams to move in on a suspected…
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gonzales mishandled 18 classified docs on his 1st day
from washington times: The Justice Department’s internal watchdog said Tuesday that former Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales had only been on the job a few hours the first time he mishandled highly classified documents. All told, a report from Justice Department Inspector General Glenn A. Fine concluded, Mr. Gonzales failed to properly secure 18 top-secret…
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police state usa: terror drills, curfews, gps & ip snooping
terror drill finds culprit with dirty bombfrom ny daily news: It was only a drill, but the scenario was still terrifying. A boat loaded with radioactive materials sailed through New York Harbor Friday. A multiagency task force – led by state-of-the-art NYPD boats – was assigned to stop the interloper. “We’re trying to further…protect the…
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olbermann: bush creating ‘embryonic police state’
from raw replay: The Justice Department wants to revise the federal government’s rules for intelligence-gathering by state and local police making it easier to share anything they find about U.S. citizens with the federal government and then letting them retain that information for a decade. This video is from MSNBC’s Countdown, broadcast August 18, 2008.…
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bullets, bombs, benazir, fbi spy, quarantines, drugs & hitler
bullet shortage affects policefrom ap: A nationwide spike in demand for small-arms ammunition and the skyrocketing cost of raw materials to make the bullets have forced some law enforcement agencies in Washington state to plan their orders further in advance. On average, the cost of ammunition has increased by 67 percent between 2004 and this…
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‘justice’ department falsely claims anthrax case is closed
authorities declare 2001 anthrax attack case solved from dpa: The US Justice Department Wednesday said it was convinced that a top government scientist who committed suicide last week was the sole person responsible for the deadly 2001 anthrax attacks that terrified the nation. Bruce Ivins was set to be indicted last week for the anthrax-laced…
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karl rove avoids subpoena by fleeing the country
from thinkprogress: This morning, Karl Rove refused to appear before the House Judiciary Committee to testify about the politicization of the Justice Department, despite a subpoena. During the hearing, Rep. Chris Cannon (R-UT) revealed that Rove had not only skipped out of the hearing, but had skipped out of the entire country. Watch it: When…
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arresting research & wrecking babylon
uk student researching ‘al-qaeda tactics’ turned in by academic informer at nottingham university from guardian: A masters student researching terrorist tactics who was arrested and detained for six days after his university informed police about al-Qaida-related material he downloaded has spoken of the “psychological torture” he endured in custody. Despite his Nottingham University supervisors insisting…
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missing bilions & war crimes evidence
pentagon can’t account for $15 billionfrom washington post: The inspector general for the Defense Department said yesterday that the Pentagon cannot account for almost $15 billion worth of goods and services ranging from trucks, bottled water and mattresses to rocket-propelled grenades and machine guns that were bought from contractors in the Iraq reconstruction effort. The…
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US soldiers did ‘dirty work’ for chinese interrogators
from abc: U.S. military personnel at Guantanamo Bay allegedly softened up detainees at the request of Chinese intelligence officials who had come to the island facility to interrogate the men – or they allowed the Chinese to dole out the treatment themselves, according to claims in a new government report. Buried in a Department of…
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news on the march
US says it will increase efforts against ‘tax defiers’from new york times: If you think paying taxes is unfair, illegal or unconstitutional, then watch out – the Justice Department is after you. Just as the Internal Revenue Service is getting into its perennial tax-season tough talk, Justice Department officials weighed in Tuesday with a vow…
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fcc ok’s clear channel buyout
mitt romney & bain capital’s deal will make largest US radio broadcaster privatefrom ap: The Federal Communications Commission has signed off on the $19.5 billion deal that will take the nation’s largest radio broadcaster private, an agency official said Thursday. San Antonio-based Clear Channel Communications Inc. grew into a media giant and punching bag for…