By Dan Eggen and Paul Kane Washington Post Staff Writers Thursday, April 5, 2007; Page A01 Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales has retreated from public view this week in an intensive effort to save his job, spending hours practicing testimony and phoning lawmakers for support in preparation for pivotal appearances in the Senate this month,…
BradBlog.com Diebold Whistleblower Stephen Heller’s First Live Broadcast Interview On Felonies, Diebold, Paper Ballots, Secret Software, Lies, George W. Bush and More Heller is the Los Angeles actor who stole incriminating documents while working as a temp at Diebold’s powerful law firm Jones Day and turned them over to Bev Harris of BlackBoxVoting.org who, in…
YahooNews/AFP Tuesday April 3, 10:46 AM Guantanamo detainee Hicks feared US interrogators would shoot him Australian Guantanamo Bay detainee David Hicks feared he would be shot unless he cooperated with US interrogators in Afghanistan, according to a sworn statement presented to a British court. In the affidavit, Hicks said he was slapped, kicked, punched and…
bbcnews.com Amnesty International said the often harsh and inhumane conditions at the camp were “pushing people to the edge”. It called for the facility to be closed and for plans for “unfair” military commission trials to be abandoned. Many of the 385 inmates have been held for five years or more, unable to mount a…
