Tag: leahy
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obamessiah: torture, truth, surge & purge
unredacted documents reveal prisoners tortured to death torture evidence ‘hidden from obama’from guardian: US defence officials are preventing Barack Obama from seeing evidence that a former British resident held in Guantánamo Bay has been tortured, the prisoner’s lawyer said last night, as campaigners and the Foreign Office prepared for the man’s release in as little…
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anthrax: panel reviews, honest mistakes & email boasts
single-bullet specter want details of anthrax investigationfrom iht: A month after the FBI declared that a U.S. Army scientist was the anthrax killer of 2001, leading members of Congress are demanding more information about the seven-year investigation, saying they do not think that the bureau has proved its case. In a letter sent Friday to…
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anthrax updates: leahy, boyle, grassley, coverups & 2 groups
leahy not satisfied with the anthrax investigationfrom empty wheel: The biggest news from a blogger chat with Patrick Leahy at the DNC today came in response to a question I threw out as we adjourned – about whether or not he was convinced with the FBI’s case in the anthrax case. We had this exchange:…
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9/11 ballot question won’t have congressional help
from burlington free press: Vermont’s two U.S. senators and one congressman are not interested in urging a new investigation into the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001. A Burlington group working through the fall and early winter gathered more than 1,350 signatures – 5 percent of the city’s registered voters – to put an advisory…
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US gov’t terror ratings draw outrage
from ap/yahoo: A leader of the new Democratic Congress, business travelers and privacy advocates expressed outrage Friday over the unannounced assignment of terrorism risk assessments to American international travelers by a computerized system managed from an unmarked, two-story brick building in Northern Virginia. Incoming Senate Judiciary Chairman Sen. Patrick Leahy of Vermont pledged greater scrutiny…
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bush prepares to impose martial law
from the chattanoogan: The Republican re-writing of the Insurrection Act gives Bush the authority to declare martial law. For the first time since 1878, the president has the power to deploy troops within the United States. Bush and future presidents now have a power that, in other countries, is reserved to the dictator. Despite the…