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How Leonard Peltier Could Leave Prison by August 18

Harvey Wasserman | Posted 08.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Native Americans, Leonard-Peltier, Federal Parole Commission, Justice, Prison System, Fbi, Politics News

For a formidable and growing global community of supporters, the prospect of Native American activist Leonard Peltier finally leaving prison inspires a longing that cuts to the depths of the soul.

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Federal Reserve Has Lowest Job Approval Rating; CDC, NASA Top List: Poll

Gallup | Posted 08.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Gallup Poll, Nasa, Cia, Internal Revenue Service, Epa, Fbi, Fda, Gallup, Department of Homeland Security, Environmental Protection Agency, Central Intelligence Association, Federal Bureau of Investigations, Federal Agencies, Irs, Federal Reserve, Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Food and Drug Administration, Dcd, Politics News

At a time when Americans are discouraged about the direction of the country and hesitant about the scope of President Barack Obama's federal budget pl...

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Taking the Wheels Off the Machine

Timothy Karr | Posted 08.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: Hoboken, Corruption, Machine Politics, Cronyism, New Jersey, Fbi, Politics News

New Jersey's progressive movement should see Cammarano's demise as an opportunity. It's our chance to pry the state's Democratic Party from the patronage system that put "business as usual" before accountability.

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New Evidence Reveals Feds 'Coached, Cajoled, Threatened' Star Witness in Siegelman Case

Brad Friedman | Posted 08.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Alabama, Don Siegelman Case, Doj, Don Siegelman, Fbi, Department of Justice, Justice Department, Eric Holder, Politics News

How it's even possible that former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman's bribery case and conviction has not long ago been dropped by the Dept. of Justice is beyond us.

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Hoboken Mayor Peter Cammarano Gets Ground Into Powder

Derek Beres | Posted 08.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Fbi, Peter Cammarano, Hoboken-Mayor-Peter-Cammarano, New Jersey Corruption, Hoboken, New Jersey, Fbi-New-Jersey-Corruption-Probe, Politics News

One quote from Hoboken Mayor Peter Cammarano from the Criminal Complaint against him paints a picture of what was going on during his election process.

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Kris Thompson, Flack For Former Sen. Joe Bruno, Gets Subpoena After Blasting Feds

New York Daily News | Kenneth Lovett | Posted 08.16.2009 | New York

Read More: Senator Bruno's Spokesperson, Senator Joseph Bruno, New York, New York Senator Bruno, Bruno's Spokesperson, Kris Thompson, Fbi, Former Senator Bruno, New York News

ALBANY - Indicted former Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno's spokesman was subpoenaed by the FBI Tuesday - a day after ripping the federal prosecutor i...

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Mr. Fitzgerald, In Your Threat to Sue for Libel, Please, Either Put Up or Shut Up

Peter Lance | Posted 08.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Jack Cloonan, Triple Cross, Ali Mohamed, Andy McCarthy, Patrick Fitzgerald, Fatwa, Ali Amiriki, 9/11, Fbi, Day of Terror Trial, 9/11 Commission, Al Qaeda, U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald, Osama Bin Laden, Politics News

Patrick Fitzgerald, the most intimidating Federal prosecutor in America, sent me a letter threatening to sue for libel if a book I wrote, critical of his anti-terrorism track record, was published.

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Micky Louis Mayon, KKK Member, To Be Escorted Back To US

The Huffington Post | Posted 08.14.2009 | World

Two U.S. marshals are being sent to escort an alleged KKK fugitive wanted by the FBI who has been arrested in Israel back to the U.S., reports CNN. M...

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FBI Probe Into Somalis May Be Most Significant Domestic Terrorism Probe Since 9/11

nytimes.com | ANDREA ELLIOTT | Posted 08.11.2009 | Politics

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The Carlson School of Management rises from the asphalt like a monument to capitalist ambition. Stock prices race across an electronic ticker near a s...

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FBI Interrogators At Gitmo Acted Like Frat Boys On Spring Break: Female Agent

Courthouse News | Posted 08.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Fbi Agents, Interrogations, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Theresa Foley, Guantanamo, Fbi, Guantanamo Spring Break, Attorney General Eric Holder, Gitmo, Politics News

The first full-time female FBI agent to be stationed at Guantanamo says she was made to bunk with vermin that gave her a tropical disease and was ostr...

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History Has Not Yet Judged Bush

James Denselow | Posted 08.07.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bush Legacy, Robert McNamara, Iraq, War in Iraq, George W. Bush, Kurds, George Piro, General David Petraeus, Fbi, Paul Bremer, Osama Bin Laden, Dick Cheney, Defense Secretary Robert Gates, Saddam Hussein, Robert Gates, Ryan Crocker, Politics News

Certainly Bush's rewriting of his Iraq legacy will be helped by his decision to reverse his earlier policies, abandoning the idealism of the top-down reinvention of Iraq, for reality-based pragmatism.

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Holder Pushes Hate Crime Bill in Wake of Recent Wave of Hate

Janet Murguía | Posted 08.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: Mexicans, Attacks, Hate Crimes, Congress, Nclr, Attorney General Eric Holder, Violence, Fbi, Immigrants, Southern Poverty Law Center, Eric Holder, Hate Crime Legislation, Dr. George Tiller, Eric Holder Attorney General, Hateful Rhetoric, Suffolk-County, u.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum, Talk Show Hosts, Jose Osvaldo Sucuzhanay, Elected Officials, Immigration Debate, Latinos, Shenandoah, Shooting, Senate Judiciary Committee, Hate Crimes Bill, Hispanic, Pennsylvania, New York, Murder, Luis Ramirez, Marcelo Lucero, National Council of La Raza, Ecuadorean, Politics News

Hate has always been present. But the recent spike in violence against immigrants is being fanned by the flames of the anger and hateful rhetoric being voiced in the debate over immigration.

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Goldman Spy Scandal: Trading Secrets Reportedly Stolen By Former Employee

Matthew Goldstein | Posted 08.06.2009 | Business

Read More: Goldman Trading Secrets, Goldman Sachs, Goldman Secret Sauce, Fbi, Goldman Trading, Sergey Aleynikov, Business News

Did someone try to steal Goldman Sachs' secret sauce? While most in the US were celebrating the 4th of July, a Russian immigrant living in New Jersey...

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Bloomberg's Safest Big City Claim

Len Levitt | Posted 08.06.2009 | New York

Read More: Guiliani, Fbi, Mayor Bloomberg, Crime, New York City, Safety, New York News

Mayor Michael Bloomberg's re-election campaign claims the FBI ranks New York as the safest large city in America. That claim is false and Bloomberg knows it.

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Release of the "Holy Grail" of Torture Reports Delayed Again

Andy Worthington | Posted 08.01.2009 | Politics

Read More: Aclu, Sere, Cia Inspector General Report, ACLU Accountability for Torture, War on Terror, Harsh Interrogations, Terrorism, President Obama, Abu Zubaydah, Fbi, CIA Torture, Justice Department, Barack Obama, Office of Legal Counsel, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Cia, Steven G. Bradbury, Breaking Politics News, Waterboarding, ACLU Torture, The Guantanamo Files, Cia Torture Memos, CIA Inspector General, Torture Memos, Torture, Politics News

Today was supposed to be the day that the Justice Department -- after two delays -- released an unclassified version of the CIA Inspector General's 2004 Report into the interrogations of "high-value detainees."

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How The FBI Broke Saddam - Without Using Torture

The Daily News | James Gordon Meek | Posted 07.27.2009 | World

Read More: Saddam Hussein, Hussein, Saddam Hussein FBI, Saddam Hussein Interrogate, Fbi, World News

Where were Iraq's WMD? How close was Saddam Hussein to Al Qaeda, really? These were vital - but still unanswered - questions when the Iraqi despot wa...

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Obama Torture Task Force Considers Reducing CIA Role In Interrogations

The Washington Independant | Posted 07.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: CIA Interrogations, Central Intelligence Agency, Terrorism, Guantanamo Detainees, George W. Bush, President Obama, Guantanamo, Fbi, Obama, Gitmo, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Cia, Barack Obama, Enhanced Interrogations, Leon Panetta, Torture, Politics News

The task force charged with fleshing out President Obama's ban on torture in interrogations is likely to recommend the creation of small, mixed-agency...

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The Fraud Squad

Huffington Post Investigative Fund | Howard Goodman | Posted 11.04.2009 | Business

Read More: Fraud, Huffington Post Investigative Fund, Mortgage Fraud, Fbi, Florida, Foreclosure, Miami, Florida Foreclosure, Housing Crisis, Business News

MIAMI -- The sun-seared condominiums along Brickell Avenue stand tall and shiny, but these days they're pockmarked with vacant units, one after the ot...

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Deep Throat: FBI Tried To Stop Film

AP | MATT SEDENSKY | Posted 07.21.2009 | Home

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MIAMI — When the FBI investigated the landmark 1972 porno movie "Deep Throat," the case touched the highest levels of the FBI, even its second-i...

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Intelligence Bureaucracy, Not Clinton 'Wall,' Caused Intelligence Failures, Says Declassified 9/11 Commission Report

Frank Naif | Posted 07.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Nsa, Intelligence, Right Wing Media, Joe Scarborough, Central Intelligence Agency, Conservatives, Cia, Counterterrorism, 9/11, Fbi, 9/11 Commission, Right Wing, Declassified Documents, State Department, Politics News

Different parts of the government had important clues about the 9/11 attacks well in advance, but didn't share them with intelligence or law enforcement units that could have acted on them.

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Cheney's FBI Interview Over Plame Leak To Be Reviewed By Judge

AP | NEDRA PICKLER | Posted 07.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: CIA Leak, Valerie Plame Leak, Valerie Plame, Cheney FBI Interview, Scooter Libby, Fbi, Dick Cheney, Politics News

WASHINGTON — A federal judge said Thursday that he wants to look at notes from the FBI's interview with former Vice President Dick Cheney during...

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Same Old Counterspy Failures Evident in Cuba Spy Case

Frank Naif | Posted 07.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Intelligence, US-Cuba Relations, National Security, Fbi, Counterintelligence, Riggs Bank, Espionage, Cuba, State Department, Politics News

Will US security officials ever fix their broken spy catching system?

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Guard Who Returned Fire Speaks About Holocaust Museum Shooting

Associated Press | GILLIAN GAYNAIR | Posted 07.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: James Von Brunn, Jason McCuiston, Von Brunn, Holocaust Museum Shooting, Harry Weeks, Fbi, Holocaust Museum, Politics News

WHITE PLAINS, Md. (AP) -- After retiring from a 27-year career as a D.C. police officer, Harry Weeks thought working security at the U.S. Holocaust Me...

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Where Guns Go to Die

Diane Dimond | Posted 07.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Diane Dimond, Smelters for Gun Destruction, Shredded Guns, What Do Police Do With Confiscated Guns?, Diane Dimond's Weekly Column, Gun Destruction Programs, Melted Guns, Where Guns Go to Die, National Association of Police Chiefs, Fbi, Confiscated Guns, Atf, Tamco, Politics News

We want police to get dangerous guns off the street, right? Well, they are -- in record numbers. Now the problem is what to do with all those confiscated guns.

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FBI Has Been Tracking "Lone Wolf" Extremists Since Late Last Year

Wall Street Journal | GARY FIELDS and EVAN PEREZ | Posted 08.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: FBI Lone Wolf Offenders, FBI Extremism, FBI Extremists, Operation Vigilant Eagle, FBI Lone-Wolf Extremists, Fbi, Politics News

The recent killings of a U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum guard and a Kansas abortion doctor came a few months after the Federal Bureau of Investigation...

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