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Are There Some Terrorists that are OK by Lieberman? A Call for Senator Lieberman to Recant

Steve Clemons | Posted 07.24.2008 | Politics

Read More: Southern Command, Fidel Castro, US-Cuba Relations, Terrorism, Joseph Lieberman, Max Kampelman, Lexington Institute, Phil Peters, Patrick Doherty, Palestine, Cuba, The Havana Note, US-Cuba Policy, Invasion, Fbi, Politics News

Lieberman agreed to carry to Bush a "pardon request" for a convict that the FBI sent to prison for terror activities aimed against Cuba.

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FBI's 100-Year Anniversary: From Capone To Bin Laden

AFP | Karin Zeitvogel | Posted 07.24.2008 | Politics

Read More: Fbi 100-Year Anniversary, Fbi, Fbi Hundred Year Anniversary, Fbi Ehibition, Politics News

In the 100 years since it was created on July 26, 1908, the US Federal Bureau of Investigation -- or FBI, as it is better known -- has grown from a f...

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Profiling Only Helps When There Is Evidence of Crime, Not Before

Ray Hanania | Posted 07.18.2008 | Politics

Read More: Islam, Muslims, Profiling, Middle East, Arabs, Terrorism, Sept. 11, 9/11, Justice Department, Fbi, Counterterrorism, Politics News

We have to learn to distinguish between real moderates and the extremists if we plan to defeat the terrorists. Profiling can't do that. Americans need more, not less education.

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Jailing the Hate Criminal Who Threatened Me

James Zogby | Posted 07.18.2008 | Politics

Read More: Fbi, Hate Crimes, Justice Department, Civil Rights, State Department, Politics News

Last Friday, a man was sentenced to two concurrent one-year prison terms for threatening my life and using hate-filled threats to violate my civil rights.

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Catching Predators is Good; Economic Justice is Better

Danny Schechter | Posted 06.23.2008 | Business

Read More: Economic Justice, Global Financial Crisis, Predatory Lending, Foreclosure, Fbi, Credit and Debt Complex, Mortgages, Business News

Consider the word, "predator." My online dictionary offers two meanings, one for the animal world and one for ours.

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John McCain, Torture Puppet

Andy Worthington | Posted 06.19.2008 | Politics

Read More: Jack Cloonan, Dan Coleman, Alberto J. Mora, Mark Fallon, John McCain, Jane Mayer, Cia, Guantanamo, Guantanamo Detainees, US Torture, Senate Committee on Armed Services, William J. Haynes II, Carl Levin, Fbi, Barack Obama, Politics News

Beyond McCain's stunted historical memory, his outburst flies in the face of the evidence that the entire "War on Terror" imprisonment program has been both chronically brutal and irredeemably flawed.

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Senator Sam's Challenge to Presidential Power

Julian E. Zelizer and Bruce Schulman | Posted 06.04.2008 | Politics

Read More: Bush Executive Privilege, Watergate, Cia, Richard Nixon, The Seventies, George W. Bush, Congressional Oversight, Fbi, Nostalgia, Executive Power, Politics News

We seem to be back to the summer of 1973, although in some respects Bush's extension of executive power has been much more dramatic than anything in that period.

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Waxman Requests FBI Interviews Of Bush And Cheney

AP | PETE YOST | Posted 06.03.2008 | Politics

Read More: Fbi, Fbi Interviews Bush Cheney, George Bush, Henry Waxman, Dick Cheney, Politics News

WASHINGTON — A House committee chairman said Tuesday he is seeking more documents from the CIA leak probe because of significant disclosures to ...

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The FBI's Bystander Guilt

Robyn Blumner | Posted 05.26.2008 | Politics

Read More: Inspector General, Justice Department, Fbi, Abusive Interrogation, Torture, Politics News

FBI agents started complaining as early as 2002 that abuse was occurring, yet our chief law enforcement agency failed to act in any way beyond absenting itself from the dirty business.

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Of Mice and Straw Men

Jayne Lyn Stahl | Posted 05.24.2008 | Politics

Read More: Congress, John McCain, Lobbying, Convention, Mccain, Straw Men, Truth, Straw Man, Fbi, Bush, Politics News

Could it be that Senator McCain doesn't want the public to see the maverick image he worked so hard to create is nothing more than a straw man?

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Unearthed: News of the Week the Mainstream Media Forgot to Report

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Brendan DeMelle | Posted 05.23.2008 | Media

Read More: Supreme Court, Corporate Espionage, Doug Goodyear DCI Group, John McCain, Karl Rove, Undocumented Immigrants, Social Security, Federal Deficit, Mountaintop-Removal Mining, Strategic Petroleum Reserve, Epa, Burger King, Fbi, Yum Brands, Pollution, Coal, Wal-Mart, Bush 2009 Budget, McCain Lobbyists, Plastic, Endangered Species, Hurricane Katrina, Medicare, National Parks, Wildlife, Media News

Karl Rove faces possible arrest; sea of plastic threatens aquatic life; corporate espionage continues; deficit off by trillions, and more...

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The Legacy of TWA Flight 800

Robert Davey | Posted 05.19.2008 | Politics

Read More: Jet Fuel, Faa, TWA Flight 800, Explosions, Boeing, Terrorism, Federal Aviation Administration, Regulation, Airplanes, Fbi, Ntsb, Qaddafi, Disasters, FAA Safety, Crash, Politics News

Whether the FAA has the nerve to impose a new expense of hundreds of thousands of dollars per aircraft remains to be seen. Whether the rule is necessary is another question.

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The Insignificance and Insanity of Abu Zubaydah

Andy Worthington | Posted 04.26.2008 | Politics

Read More: Dan Coleman, Cia, Khalid Al-Hubayshi, Abu Zubaydah, The Guantanamo Files, Ron Suskind, Fbi, Osama Bin Laden, Politics News

Abu Zubaydah, an alleged senior al-Qaeda operative, has been held without charge or trial as a "high-value detainee" for over six years, first in secr...

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Friday Talking Points [27] -- Petraeus Week

Chris Weigant | Posted 04.11.2008 | Politics

Read More: White House, Permanent Base, Indian, Campaign, Jim Webb, Stall, China, Permanent Bases, Squaw Tit Peak, Surge, 2008, Midotw, Nancy Pelosi, Most Impressive Democrat of the Week, Gay Wedding, Carl Levin, John Conyers, Jessica Lynch, Native American, Petraeus, Olympic Torch, Woman, Free Trade, Democrat, Congress, 08, Joe Biden, Democrats, Barack Obama, Election, Lori Piestewa, 08 Election, Elections, Human Rights, Darth Cheney, Mddotw, Torch, Janet Napolitano, Hillary Clinton, Maliki, Squaw, Columbia, Al Qaeda, Barbara Boxer, Website, Economy, John Yoo, Kennedy, Cheney, Squaw Peak, Iraq, 28%, Bush, Iran, Gavin Newsom, Ned Lamont, Protest, Most Disappointing Democrat of the Week, 2008 Campaign, Piestewa Peak, Moqtada Al-Sadr, John McCain, Crocker, Torch Relay, Mahdi Army, 2008 Elections, Approval Rating, 2008 Election, Recession, Testimony, The Stall, 08 Campaign, Hearing, Sadr, 2008 Presidential Race, Oil, San Francisco, Joe Lieberman, Fbi, Torture, Hopi, Piestewa, Politics News

Thus endeth another Petraeus week on Capitol Hill. I have to say, I was impressed at the caliber of the questions asked, but severely disappointed at ...

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Forty years later the FBI Still Has Some Explaining to Do About King's Murder

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 04.01.2008 | Home

Read More: Murder, Martin Luther King Jr., Racism, Cointelpro, Fbi, King Assassination, James Earl Ray, j.edgar Hoover, Home News

"Dangerous," "evil," "colossal fraud," were the choice terms that then FBI director J. Edgar Hoover and other top FBI officials routinely spit ...

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NYPD, FBI In Terrorism Turf War

Washington Post | Dafna Linzer | Posted 03.22.2008 | Politics

Read More: NYPD and FBI Turf War, Nypd, FBI Terrorism, NYPD Terrorism, Fbi, FBI Turf War, Politics News

Not long after Sept. 11, 2001, as New York City began to build a counterterrorism effort to rival those of most nations, Police Commissioner Raymond W...

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Audit: FBI Watchlist Data Error-Riddled

AP | LARA JAKES JORDAN | Posted 03.17.2008 | Politics

Read More: Fbi, FBI Watch List, FBI Terror Watch List, Terror Watch List Errors, Politics News

WASHINGTON — The FBI gave outdated, incomplete and inaccurate information about terror suspects to be added to the government's watchlist for ne...

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FBI "Blanket" Demands For Phone Records Used To Cover Up Mistakes

NY Times | Eric Lichtbau | Posted 03.13.2008 | Politics

Read More: Fbi, FBI Blanket Records, FBI National Security Letters, National Security Letters, FBI Wiretaps, FBI Blanket, FBI Surveillance, Politics News

Senior officials of the Federal Bureau of Investigation repeatedly approved the use of "blanket" records demands to justify the improper collection of...

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Client 9

Suzanne O'Malley | Posted 03.11.2008 | Politics

Read More: Fifth Avenue, Silda Wall Spitzer, Silda Wall, Divorce, Spitzer, Prostitution, Client-9, Clinton, Skadden Arps, Wiretaps, Governor Spitzer, Harvard Law School, New York State Assembly, Peter Stamos, Sterling Stamos, Fbi, Domestic Abuse, Tedisco, Politics News

I was the Spitzers' occasional neighbor until four years ago. On more than one occasion, raging and abusive language -- Eliot Spitzer's -- reached operatic levels at 1am and later.

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Client 9 - Spitzer's Latest Screw Up

Beverly Davis | Posted 03.10.2008 | Home

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This is American politics and just about any guy can survive anything if Pres. Clinton can survive an impeachment, especially if his wife is standing beside him during his 'mea culpa.'

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More FBI Privacy Violations Confirmed

AP | LARA JAKES JORDAN | Posted 03.05.2008 | Politics

Read More: Warwire, Fbi, FBI Director Robert Mueller, Senate Judiciary Committee, Wiretaps, FBI Wiretaps, Justice Department, National Security Letters, FBI Surveillance, Privacy Abuses, Americans Privacy FBI, Politics News

The FBI improperly used national security letters in 2006 to obtain personal data on Americans during terror and spy investigations, Director Robert M...

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More FBI Privacy Violations Confirmed

AP | LARA JAKES JORDAN | Posted 03.05.2008 | Politics

Read More: Fbi, FBI Surveillance, Right to Privacy, National Security Letters, Privacy Abuses, Justice Department, Bush Justice Department, Politics News

WASHINGTON — The FBI acknowledged Wednesday it improperly accessed Americans' telephone records, credit reports and Internet traffic in 2006, th...

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Weekly Standard's Michael Goldfarb on Guantanamo: "We're Making These Things Up as We Go Along"

Andy Worthington | Posted 02.18.2008 | Politics

Read More: Dan Coleman, Michael Goldfarb, Abdul Hamid Al-Ghizzawi, Fbi, Weekly Standard, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, Politics News

Abdul Hamid al-Ghizzawi's case is central to complaints made in sworn statements last year by military officers, who worked on the tribunals at Guantánamo, that the entire system was rigged.

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US Agencies: Terrorists' Use Of Female Suicide Bombers Increasing

CNN | Posted 02.12.2008 | Politics

Read More: Female Suicide Bombers, Warwire, Homeland Security Agency, Terrorists, Suicide Bombers, Fbi, War on Terror, Politics News

Terrorists increasingly favor using women as suicide bombers to thwart security and draw attention to their causes, a new FBI-Department of Homeland S...

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Six in Guantánamo Charged with 9/11 Murders: Why Now? And What About the Torture?

Andy Worthington | Posted 02.12.2008 | Politics

Read More: Dan Coleman, Alberto J. Mora, CIA Prisons, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Cia, Walid Bin Attash, Ali Abdul Aziz Ali, Ramzi Bin Al-Shibh, 9-11 Terror Charges, Al-Qaeda, Waterboarding, 9-11, Mustafa Al-Hawsawi, Mohammed Al-Qahtani, Fbi, Politics News

It is surely no coincidence, that the charges against the Guantánamo detainees came just six days after the director of the CIA, admitted that three of the "high-value" detainees had been subjected to waterboarding.

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