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Mafia Looking For Cut Of Stimulus Pie

New York Times | WILLIAM K. RASHBAUM | Posted 09.30.2009 | New York


Everybody is looking for stimulus money. From bridge builders to food stamp recipients, from roofers to subway riders, from teachers to housing proje...

Formerly-'Gagged' FBI Whistleblower Details Congressional Blackmail, Bribery, Espionage, Corruption in Remarkable Videotaped Deposition

Brad Friedman | Posted 09.27.2009 | Politics


Brad Friedman

Just over two weeks ago, FBI translator-turned-whistleblower Sibel Edmonds was finally allowed to speak about much of what the Bush Administration spent years trying to keep her from discussing publicly.

Former Dem Strategist Connected To Missouri Bombing

STL Today | Tony Messenger, Robert Patrick, and Jake Wagman | Posted 09.25.2009 | Politics


A federal search warrant obtained by the Post-Dispatch connects a former Democratic campaign strategist to a Clayton bombing last year that seriously ...

FBI Director Outraged By Lockerbie Bomber Release

AP | DEVLIN BARRETT | Posted 09.22.2009 | World


WASHINGTON — FBI Director Robert Mueller sharply criticized Scotland's justice minister for releasing the Lockerbie bomber, an act that "gives c...

F.B.I. Fugitive Is Still Licensed To Fly

nytimes.com | MATTHEW L. WALD | Posted 09.18.2009 | Politics


The Federal Bureau of Investigation is offering a $50,000 reward for a Seattle man it says is a domestic terrorist. But that has not kept him from kee...

Two Women, Two Potential Assassins Out On the Street

Geri Spieler | Posted 09.17.2009 | Politics


Geri Spieler

Two women, two potential presidential assassins, are free today, 34 years after they attempted to assassinate Pres. Gerald Ford.

Airlines To Begin Asking Passengers For More Information

washingtonpost.com | Spencer S. Hsu | Posted 09.13.2009 | Politics


U.S. airlines on Saturday will begin asking travelers to provide their birth date and sex for the first time under a new aviation security requirement...

Women Criminals I have Known

Geri Spieler | Posted 09.11.2009 | Living


Geri Spieler

It seems it is the season for paroling women who attempt to assassinate our presidents and those who commit heinous crimes.

Bridges of Rhetoric and Suspicion

Abukar Arman | Posted 09.11.2009 | Politics


Abukar Arman

We must build bona fide bridges of understanding to significantly reduce elements hindering the ability of the US and Muslim world to work together on critical issues of mutual importance.

DNA Testing of Detained Immigrants Easier Said Than Done

Huffington Post Investigative Fund | Ben Protess And Emily Witt | Posted 11.04.2009 | Politics


Seven months after the federal government gave final approval to a controversial plan to collect DNA samples from undocumented immigrants, the program...

The World's Most Hated Blogger

Andrea Chalupa | Posted 09.03.2009 | Media


Andrea Chalupa

Two years ago, it's fair to say, Casey Serin hit bottom. A bottom lower than most of us could go -- a bottom that would make most of us nauseous and curl into fetal position, whimpering.

Guantanamo As Hotel California: You Can Check Out Any Time You Like, But You Can Never Leave

Andy Worthington | Posted 09.03.2009 | Politics


Andy Worthington

Prisoners who do not face ill-treatment on return to their homelands are still held, no matter how many times their release is approved by various representatives of the U.S. government.

How Leonard Peltier Could Leave Prison by August 18

Harvey Wasserman | Posted 08.30.2009 | Politics


Harvey Wasserman

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.

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

Gallup | Posted 08.27.2009 | Politics


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...

Taking the Wheels Off the Machine

Timothy Karr | Posted 08.25.2009 | Politics


Timothy Karr

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.

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

Brad Friedman | Posted 08.24.2009 | Politics


Brad Friedman

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.

Hoboken Mayor Peter Cammarano Gets Ground Into Powder

Derek Beres | Posted 08.23.2009 | Politics


Derek Beres

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.

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


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

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

Peter Lance | Posted 08.15.2009 | Politics


Peter Lance

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.

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...

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

nytimes.com | ANDREA ELLIOTT | Posted 08.11.2009 | Politics


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...

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

Courthouse News | Posted 08.10.2009 | Politics


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...

History Has Not Yet Judged Bush

James Denselow | Posted 08.07.2009 | Politics


James Denselow

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.

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

Janet Murguía | Posted 08.06.2009 | Politics


Janet Murguía

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.

Goldman Spy Scandal: Trading Secrets Reportedly Stolen By Former Employee

Matthew Goldstein | Posted 08.06.2009 | Business


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...