By Tim Cocks, Reuters Torture, beatings, executions, racist stereotyping and intrusive surveillance are among the abuses countries are committing in the name of fighting terrorism, a rights watchdog said on Monday. The Commonwealth Human Rights Commission said since the 9/11 attacks, many nations had been using the military for police work in the so-called “war…
By Brian Ross and Pierre Thomas, ABC News A federal grand jury in Washington, D.C. has opened an investigation into the role of Blackwater security guards in the shooting deaths of 17 Iraqi citizens in September in Baghdad, federal law enforcement sources tell the Blotter on ABCNews.com. A number of Blackwater security guards assigned to…
23/6Â The Army has discovered that its new UH-72A Lakota helicopter, designed for search-and-rescue and disaster relief, has a fatal flaw: It can’t fly in hot weather. At temperatures over 80 degrees Fahrenheit, cockpit temperature soars over the upper safe limit of 104 degrees. Naturally, the Army spent $2.6 billion on the choppers, reasoning that…
John Byrne, Raw Story Homeland Security adviser to President George W. Bush Frances Townsend has resigned, following a report of her departure in Politico. “It’s an important job and she was good at it,” an anonymous Bush official told the site. “She will stay until her successor is identified, which is immensely helpful.” Her departure…
