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Feb 26, 2007
WASHINGTON – A federal judge avoided a potential mistrial in the CIA leak case Monday by dismissing a juror and sending the other 11 back to continue deliberating the fate of former White House aide I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby.
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John Byrne, Raw Story In a striking but unnoticed extension of domestic surveillance, the little-known National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency deployed a U-2 spy plane on the region affected by Hurricane Katrina in 2005 to track hazards to public health. In an article Thursday, Salon‘s Tim Shorrock explores the emergence of the NGA, born in 1996 from…
Mukasey Tries To Steer Obama Away From Probing Torture, spying By Jason Leopold – The Public Record Friday, December 05, 2008 – Last update: Friday, December 05, 2008 Copyright © 2008 The Public Record. All rights reserved. Since he replaced disgraced Attorney General Alberto Gonzales last year, Michael Mukasey has stonewalled every attempt made by…
ACLU – According to the Supreme Court, “the clearest command of the Establishment Clause is that one religious denomination cannot be officially preferred over another.” But that command is apparently not clear enough for President Donald Trump. On Friday he signed an executive order on refugees that imposes a selective ban on immigration from seven…
Raw Story Former White House aide I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby is dropping his appeal in the CIA leak case, his attorney said Monday. Libby, the former chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney, was convicted of perjury and obstruction for lying about his conversations with reporters about outed CIA operative Valerie Plame. “We remain…
International Herald Tribune — Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich will leave Chicago as a governor Thursday morning. He may come home just an average citizen. Blagojevich plans to fly to Springfield and address the Senate before the final vote in his impeachment trial. Even Blagojevich predicts he’ll be convicted, costing him his job and all the…
MONTPELIER, Vermont (AP) — President Bush may soon have a new reason to avoid left-leaning Vermont: In one town, activists want him subject to arrest for war crimes. Kurt Daims of Brattleboro, Vermont, speaks Friday about his movement against Bush and Cheney. A group in Brattleboro is petitioning to put an item on a town…
