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Latest Articles: Corrupt Government
REPUBLICAN PARTY OF FLORIDA: U.S. Subpoenas GOP Records
Post Date: 2010-12-02 13:30:42 by Brian S
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BY MARC CAPUTO AND LUCY MORGAN Herald/Times Tallahassee Bureau Federal investigators slapped the Republican Party of Florida with a subpoena seeking financial records as part of a wide-ranging corruption probe by the FBI, IRS and U.S. Attorney's Office, the Herald/Times has learned. The subpoena, delivered Election Day, sought documents related to big spending by top Republican honchos who were given party-paid American Express cards. Top RPOF officials and investigators declined to comment on the federal probe or the subpoena. For more than a year, the party has reeled from scandals tied to the credit cards as well as four unrelated state criminal probes ...
Obama White House Pressured Spain To Drop Bush Torture Prosecution, Leaked Cable Shows
Post Date: 2010-12-02 13:22:29 by Brian S
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The Obama administration went to the mat to defend its predecessors from a torture prosecution in Spain last year, a leaked State Department cable shows. The cable, released by WikiLeaks this week, shows that senior US diplomats teamed with Republican lawmakers -- including a former Republican Party chairman -- to put pressure on Spanish officials to drop a criminal investigation into the Bush administration's use of "enhanced interrogation techniques." In the spring of 2009, Spanish Judge Balthasar Garzon launched an inquiry into six Bush officials linked to the torture policy. They were then-Attorney General Alberto Gonzales; Cheney adviser David Addington; Pentagon lawyer ...
Nigeria To Charge Dick Cheney In $180 Million Bribery Case, Issue Interpol Arrest Warrant
Post Date: 2010-12-02 12:21:49 by Brian S
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The energy services company Dick Cheney ran prior to becoming Vice President of the United States was atop the tongue of liberals each time it was awarded a contract in Iraq. Now the company's name, Halliburton, is being spoken somewhere else: Nigeria. According to a story filed late Wednesday, Cheney will be indicted in a Nigerian bribery case as part of an investigation into an alleged $180 million bribery scandal. "Last week, Nigeria arrested at least 23 officials from companies including Halliburton, Saipem, Technip and a former subsidiary of Panalpina Welttransport Holding AG in connection with alleged illegal payments to Nigerian officials. Those detained were all freed on ...
House Republicans To Axe Dems’ (Nancy Pelosi) Global Warming Committee
Post Date: 2010-12-02 01:35:30 by Murron
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House Republicans To Axe Dems’ (Nancy Pelosi) Global Warming Committee House Republicans will dissolve the special committee set up by Speaker Nancy Pelosi to study global warming, they said Wednesday. “We have pledged to save taxpayers’ money by reducing waste and duplication in Congress. The Select Committee on Global Warming — which was created to provide a political forum to promote Washington Democrats’ job-killing national energy tax — was a clear example, and it will not continue in the 112th Congress,” said Michael Steel, a spokesman for House Minority Leader John Boehner, Ohio Republican. Boehner is set to become Speaker of the House when ...
(Hillary) Clinton probed Argentine Leader's 'nerves,' 'anxiety,' 'stress'
Post Date: 2010-11-30 11:24:49 by Murron
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(Hillary) Clinton Probed Argentine Leader's 'nerves,' 'anxiety,' 'stress' By Tim Johnson HILLARY PROBED CRISTINA'S DRUG USE, STRESS, ANGER MEXICO CITY — Seeking a frank evaluation of Argentina's president, the office of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton asked the U.S. Embassy in Buenos Aires late last year to delve into her psyche. "How is Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner managing her nerves and anxiety?" asked a cable dated Dec. 31, 2009, and signed "CLINTON" in all capital letters. The cable, sent at 2:55 p.m. on New Year's Eve, and originating in the department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research, asked a ...
Oregon: FBI Thwarts Own Car Bomb
Post Date: 2010-11-29 13:13:24 by Capitalist Eric
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The United States' Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) claims to have thwarted their own car bomb Friday, November 26, 2010 at a Christmas tree lighting ceremony in Portland, Oregon's Pioneer Courthouse Square. A 19 year old man, Mr. Mohamed Osman Mohamud, was in contact with undercover FBI agents since June of 2010. FBI agents claim they were acting as an accomplice of a supposed Pakistani terrorist that Mr. Mohamud had been in contact with as early as 2008. Unlike the supposed Pakistani terrorist Mr. Mohamud was in contact with, the FBI actually supplied him with a bomb. According to the FBI, their undercover agents had decided to meet with Mr. Mohamud in Portland in July 20 ...
WikiLeaks US Embassy Cables: Live Updates
Post Date: 2010-11-28 15:48:47 by Murron
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WikiLeaks US Embassy Cables: Live Updates Reaction and updates following the release of more than 250,000 classified US diplomatic cables from WikiLeaks. Tomorrow, revelations about North Korea and the UK. 8.32pm: US embassy officials in Berlin will have to soothe ruffle feathers of top German officials if they haven't done so already. Der Spiegel highlights the negative American assessments of the German foreign minister, Guido Westerwelle. The secret reports describe him as incompetent, vain and critical of America. The US diplomats report that they face a challenge in dealing with a politician who is considered an "enigma," who has little foreign policy experience and ...
NY Times Wikileaks Posted Here
Post Date: 2010-11-28 14:07:14 by Murron
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PAGE 1 Cables Shine Light Into Secret Diplomatic Channels President Bashar al-Assad of Syria, left, with William J. Burns, a State Department official, in Damascus. By SCOTT SHANE and ANDREW W. LEHREN Published: November 28, 2010 WASHINGTON — A cache of a quarter-million confidential American diplomatic cables, most of them from the past three years, provides an unprecedented look at backroom bargaining by embassies around the world, brutally candid views of foreign leaders and frank assessments of nuclear and terrorist threats. Some of the cables, made available to The New York Times and several other news organizations, were written as recently as late February, revealing the ...
WikiLeaks Documents Released by NYT and Other Media
Post Date: 2010-11-28 13:55:29 by Murron
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WikiLeaks Documents Released by NYT and Other Media WASHINGTON | Sun Nov 28, 2010 1:34pm EST WASHINGTON (Reuters) - State Department documents released by whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks provided candid views of foreign leaders and sensitive information on terrorism and nuclear proliferation, the New York Times reported on Sunday. The documents show Saudi donors remain chief financiers of militant groups like al Qaeda and that Chinese government operatives have waged a coordinated campaign of computer sabotage targeting the United States and its allies, according to a review of the WikiLeaks documents published in the Times. (Reporting by Ross Colvin and Doina Chiacu; Editing by ...
WikiLeaks to Defy US Demands on Leaked Cables
Post Date: 2010-11-28 13:30:32 by Murron
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WikiLeaks to Defy US Demands on Leaked Cables WASHINGTON (AP) -- The online website WikiLeaks said Sunday it will release of hundreds of thousands of classified State Department documents in defiance of U.S. demands not to publish the files. The WikiLeaks website appeared to be inaccessible, and WikiLeaks said in its Twitter feed that it was experiencing a denial of service attack. Nevertheless, WikiLeaks said that publications in the U.S. and Europe would print the leaked diplomatic cables even if it could not. The group's founder, Julian Assange, also told the U.S. ambassador to Britain that WikiLeaks would not bow to Washington's demands. The Obama administration has been ...
Wikileaks Document Dump Has United States Working Damage Control to Stem Potential Embarrassment
Post Date: 2010-11-28 10:28:56 by Murron
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Wikileaks Document Dump Has United States Working Damage Control to Stem Potential Embarrassment U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is preparing for the worst ahead of the next expected dump of documents by Wikileaks. ERICSON/NewsWikileaks founder Julian Assange Take our PollToo far? Are you scared the Wikileaks document release will harm US national security? The U.S. is already in damage-control mode ahead of the latest classified documents expected to be released by whistle-blowing website Wikileaks. Wikileaks founder Julian Assange Secretary of State Hillary Clinton spoke with the leaders of several countries, warning her counterparts of what the documents may contain, ...
Tom DeLay GUILTY: Jury Convicts Republican In Money Laundering Trial
Post Date: 2010-11-24 19:15:07 by Skip Intro
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Tom DeLay GUILTY: Jury Convicts Republican In Money Laundering Trial AUSTIN, Texas — Former U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay – once one of the most powerful and feared Republicans in Congress – was convicted Wednesday on charges he illegally funneled corporate money to Texas candidates in 2002. Jurors deliberated for 19 hours before returning guilty verdicts against DeLay on charges of money laundering and conspiracy to commit money laundering. He faces up to life in prison on the money laundering charge. After the verdicts were read, DeLay hugged his daughter, Danielle, and his wife, Christine. His lead attorney, Dick DeGuerin, said they planned to appeal the ...
Black Friday: A Festival Of Greed In The Midst Of A Sea Of Pain And Suffering
Post Date: 2010-11-23 18:43:01 by Capitalist Eric
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Black Friday - the day after Thanksgiving when millions of Americans line up before the crack of dawn at retail stores across the nation hoping to find great deals on cheap plastic stuff made outside the United States. The Friday after Thanksgiving has become an "unofficial holiday" in recent years, and in fact in many ways it is starting to become as big as Thanksgiving itself. A recent search on Google News found over 31,000 stories about "Thanksgiving" and over 24,000 stories about "Black Friday". Almost every major news organization has been running stories about Black Friday for weeks now. Some of the biggest retailers, including Wal-Mart, Sears, Old Navy ...
Experts: Mystery contrail was from Chinese missile (Obama cover-up)
Post Date: 2010-11-20 15:43:24 by Hondo68
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Contrail was recorded in this image by KCBS-KCAL in California Although the U.S. Defense Department and North American Aerospace Defense Command have speculated publicly that the unidentified contrail of a projectile soaring into the skies off the California coast – and recorded by a KCBS television crew – came from a jet and posed no security threat to the U.S., several experts are raising provocative and disturbing questions about the government's official response, reports Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin. Two governmental military experts with extensive experience working with missiles and computer security systems have examined the television video and conclude the ...
TSA Out of Control [video]
Post Date: 2010-11-19 22:38:40 by Capitalist Eric
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Introducing HR 6416, the American Traveler Dignity Act
Post Date: 2010-11-18 12:43:44 by jwpegler
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Mr. Speaker, today I introduce legislation to protect Americans from physical and emotional abuse by federal Transportation Security Administration employees conducting screenings at the nation’s airports. We have seen the videos of terrified children being grabbed and probed by airport screeners. We have read the stories of Americans being subjected to humiliating body imaging machines and/or forced to have the most intimate parts of their bodies poked and fondled. We do not know the potentially harmful effects of the radiation emitted by the new millimeter wave machines. In one recent well-publicized case, a TSA official is recorded during an attempted body search saying, “By ...
TSA 'exposed woman's breasts, laughed'
Post Date: 2010-11-18 12:33:50 by jwpegler
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A WOMAN is suing over an incident where airport staff allegedly pulled down her top and joked about her breasts in public view. The 23-year-old traveller, from Amarillo, US, is suing the US Government for the emotional distressed she says the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) agents caused. The woman says she was singled out for "extended search procedures" while preparing to board a plane to Amarillo in May 2008. “As the TSA agent was frisking plaintiff, the agent pulled the plaintiff’s blouse completely down, exposing plaintiffs’ breasts to everyone in the area,” the lawsuit said. “As would be expected, plaintiff was extremely embarrassed ...
Man arrested after punching TSA screener in Indy
Post Date: 2010-11-17 17:40:42 by Capitalist Eric
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Connecticut man has been arrested after exchanging words and punching a TSA screener at a security checkpoint at Indianapolis International Airport. According to a report from airport police, John A. Christina, 51, Simsbury, Conn., was charged with battery as a misdemeanor in connection with the incident about 2:50 p.m. Tuesday at the Concourse B checkpoint. Christina, who could not be reached for comment today, was released from jail on $150 bond and scheduled in Marion Superior Court 10 on Dec. 13. Jim Fotenos, spokesman for the Transportation Security Agency, said in an airport police report, "Our transportation security officers work on the front lines to protect the nation from ...
Senators and TSA Defend "Love Pats" at Airports
Post Date: 2010-11-17 17:34:32 by Capitalist Eric
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(CBS) Transportation Safety Administration chief John Pistole and several senators from both parties defended the new, enhanced airport security screening procedures as necessary in the face of a persistent and evolving terrorist threat in a hearing Wednesday on Capitol Hill. Pistole, calm and confident in the face of an increasing public outcry against the procedures, talked extensively about the repercussions of last year's attempted Christmas Day bombing being the impetus for the enhanced screenings before the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, TSA's oversight committee. "We know the terrorists' intent is still there," Pistole testified. ...
Leader of TSA offers to fondle senators genitals (edited title)
Post Date: 2010-11-17 14:23:30 by Hondo68
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The head of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) offered on Wednesday to have airport screeners come to Capitol Hill to give senators a pat-down so they could fully understand the mechanics of the newly deployed, controversial technique. John Pistole told senators on the Senate Science, Commerce and Transportation Committee that he “insisted” on receiving the pat-down to “experience what that involves so that we would know before we rolled it out,” and added that Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano has gotten a pat-down as well. “Honestly, any member who has not experienced that pat-down [and] who would like to do that — I would not offer ...
Prosecution Rests In DeLay's Money-Laundering Trial
Post Date: 2010-11-17 12:51:10 by Brian S
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AUSTIN – The prosecution rested today in the political money laundering trial of former U.S. Rep. Tom DeLay, R-Sugar Land. The final witnesses in the case were a pair of journalists. Austin American-Statesman reporter Laylin Copelin testified about an interview he had with DeLay last week in which DeLay said he learned of a political money swap in 2002 after the deal was made, but said he could have stopped it before checks were delivered to seven Texas House candidates. The other witness, political newsletter owner Harvey Kronberg, testified that DeLay was very active in the 2003 congressional redistricting fight. Prosecutors claim DeLay's motive in financing House candidates ...
The Real Reason America’s Cities and Towns Are Broke
Post Date: 2010-11-15 10:39:31 by lucysmom
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If you want to know what life in the Third World is like, just ask Lisa Pack, an administrative assistant who works in the roads and transportation department in Jefferson County, Alabama. Pack got rudely introduced to life in post-crisis America last August, when word came down that she and 1,000 of her fellow public employees would have to take a little unpaid vacation for a while. The county, it turned out, was more than $5 billion in debt — meaning that courthouses, jails and sheriff's precincts had to be closed so that Wall Street banks could be paid. ... Birmingham became the poster child for a new kind of giant-scale financial fraud, one that would threaten the financial ...
Obama White House Hands Out 111 Obamacare Waivers- Hides It on Website
Post Date: 2010-11-14 16:11:17 by Happy Quanzaa
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TSA - Easy As One, Two, Three!
Post Date: 2010-11-14 04:22:17 by Coral Snake
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TSA - Easy As One, Two, Three! By Jim Kirwan 11-13-10 The Transportation Security Agency has become a political and social madhouse in which perverts are being hired To Sexually Abuse the public supposedly in the name of "The Greater Good." Apparently The Lord of the Flies has now taken over the Airport boarding terminals, and they are daring to call what they do as "necessary to the national security of the United States." Not only is this wrong it has become blatantly offensive to even attempt to fly in America anymore. This would be fixable if there was any interest whatsoever by anyone in the government or the US Department of Justice to insure that the treatment of ...
Prince George's County Executive, Wife, Both Charged in Federal Case; Both Arrested
Post Date: 2010-11-13 16:38:48 by Murron
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Prince George's County Executive, Wife, Both Charged in Federal Case; Both Arrested Accused of tampering with witness, evidence Just after 10:12 a.m. Friday, Leslie Johnson frantically phoned her husband, Jack B. Johnson, the Prince George's county executive. Two FBI agents were at the front door of their two-story brick colonial in Mitchellville. "Don't answer it," the county executive said, unaware that more agents were listening in. According to an FBI affidavit, Johnson ordered his wife to find and destroy a $100,000 check from a real estate developer that was hidden in a box of liquor. "Do you want me to put it down the toilet?" Leslie Johnson ...
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