Tag: jane harman
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Bush Cancels Visit to Switzerland After Arrest Threat
ormer President George W. Bush has canceled a visit to Switzerland, where he was to address a Jewish charity gala, due to the risk of legal action against him for alleged torture, rights groups said on Saturday.
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cyber/spacewar: homeland hackers & a paid internet
hacker ‘dark tangent’, jeff moss, joins dhs security council bills would kill dhs satellite surveillance officefrom fcw: A senior House Democrat has introduced legislation that would kill the controversial National Applications Office (NAO), a Homeland Security Department-run program to make intelligence and military satellite imagery available to civilian agencies for domestic purposes. Rep. Jane Harman…
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US drops spy case against pro-israel lobbyists rosen & weissman
from nytimes: A case that began four years ago with the tantalizing and volatile premise that officials of a major pro-Israel lobbying organization were illegally trafficking in sensitive national security information collapsed on Friday as prosecutors asked that all charges be withdrawn. From the beginning, the case against the lobbyists for the American Israel Public…
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harman, wiretaps, doj & aipac: more massive corruption
major scandal erupts involving congress, cabinet & corruption download greenwald & stein interview [10.5mb mp3]wiretap recorded rep harman promising to intervene for aipacfrom cqpolitics: Rep. Jane Harman, the California Democrat with a longtime involvement in intelligence issues, was overheard on an NSA wiretap telling a suspected Israeli agent that she would lobby the Justice Department…
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police state int’l: bioterror, bigbro, behavioral screening & more
a slew of warnings on nuclear, chemical & biological terrorism prompt worries of fearmongering (or fears of worrymongering)from usnews: After a series of dire new warnings about possible terrorist threats—capped by a government commission’s report that terrorists are likely to stage a biological or nuclear attack somewhere in the world during the next five years—some…