Intelligence Chief Cites Qaeda Threat to U.S. alt=”fear-image.jpg”By BRIAN KNOWLTON February 5, 2008 Copyright 2008 The New York Times Company> WASHINGTON – Michael McConnell, the director of national intelligence, said on Tuesday that Al Qaeda is improving its ability to attack within the United States by recruiting and training new operatives. At the same time,…
Information Clearing House A Political Prisoner: The Don Siegelman Case: By Ernest Partridge Today, Don Siegelman, former governor of the state of Alabama, sits in a federal prison, sentenced to a seven year term for bribery. Every day that Siegelman remains in prison every American citizen who openly dissents from the policies and protests the…
By Maggie Fox, Reuters Health and Science Editor Health experts denounced President George W. Bush’s 2009 federal budget request on Monday, calling it a disaster for the health of Americans and saying they would look to Congress to change it. Bush’s $3.1 trillion spending plan proposes a 7 percent cut in funds for the Centers…
By Robert Fisk, The Independent UK Torture works,” an American special forces major — now, needless to say, a colonel — boasted to a colleague of mine a couple of years ago. It seems that the CIA and its hired thugs in Afghanistan and Iraq still believe this. There is no evidence that rendition and…
