Error tipped Iran to CIA agents
• CNNSeveral U.S. agents in Iran were rounded up after the CIA mistakenly revealed clues to their identities to a covert source who turned out to be a double agent
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Ex-CIA agent says US missed bin Laden in Afghanistan
• Financial TimesUS military commanders were told that Osama bin Laden was hiding in the mountainous Tora Bora region of Afghanistan in early December 2001 but failed to send troops to block his escape, according to the CIA officer who ran the agency’s operations in
NSA Whistleblower Warns US is Decaying Into a “Police State”
• Democracy Now!Former NSA intelligence agent Russell Tice said, “The freedom of the American people cannot be protected when our constitutional liberties are ignored and our nation has decayed into a police state."
US warns Iran against resuming nuclear research
• ReutersThe US warned Iran against resuming atomic fuel research and development next week in what could become a showdown over the West's suspicions that Tehran wants to build a nuclear bomb.
Abramoff says he could implicate 60 lawmakers
• The Raw StoryA onetime chairman of College Republicans -- a close ally of such party luminaries as Tom DeLay, Ralph Reed and Grover Norquist -- Mr. Abramoff says he has information that could implicate 60 lawmakers.
Hardball's Chris Matthews, FOX's Tony Snow and Britt Hume helped raise money for shady Abr
• AmericablogAbramoff forms a group called the "Capital Athletic Foundation." The group appears to play a key role in the Abramoff scandal:
Bush administration member worked with Abramoff
• The Raw StoryA onetime member of Jack Abramoff's lobbying team who romanced Congress and opinion leaders for lobbying accounts valued at more than $11 million and shuttled members of Congress to the Northern Marianas Islands remains an Assistant Secretary in
Abramoff Lobbying Scandal: Big Timber Falls Hard
• by James RidgewayVanity Fair last fall ran an article in which Sibel Edmonds, the former FBI translator blocked by a government gag order from telling what she knows about the FBI operations around the time of 9-11, describes how, in her days as an FBI interpreter, s
Justice to Try to Toss Gitmo Challenges
• The GuardianThe Justice Department will seek dismissal of lawsuits from more than 300 Guantanamo Bay detainees fighting the legality of their confinement, using a new law that sharply limits existing challenges. Won broad support only after it had been altered s
Iraq Wants U.S. Choice Out as Chief Of Brigade
• Washington PostOver the strong objections of US commanders in Baghdad, the Iraqi government has nominated a new leader for a brigade that is set to assume control over some of the capital's most sensitive areas. This dispute appears likely to postpone an alread
More war on menu in 2006
• by Scott Horton (AntiWar.com)What a hell of a year that was, huh? Lots of killing. I'm hoping for less this year, though the number of people who can adequately debunk the State's case for Iran building nukes is down to the Iranians themselves, and Dr. Gordon Prather of
Secret services say Iran is trying to assemble a nuclear missile
• The GuardianThe Iranian government has been successfully scouring Europe for the sophisticated equipment needed to develop a nuclear bomb, according to the latest western intelligence assessment of the country's weapons programmes.
Coming to the Hill: lots of hearing-room drama
• The Christian Science MonitorLawmakers on both sides of the aisle set in motion an aggressive oversight agenda, ranging from secret prisons and the treatment of detainees under US control, to the president's authorization of domestic eavesdropping without a warrant. More mem
Russia-Ukraine natural gas standoff
• The Christian Science MonitorThe Russian energy giant Gazprom cut off Ukraine's share of the gas flowing through the Friendship Pipeline that carries about 80 percent of Russian gas exports through Ukraine to the West.
Rhode Island Legislature Legalizes Medical Marijuana
• ReutersRhode Island on Tuesday became the 11th state to legalize medical marijuana and the first since the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in June that patients who use the drug can still be prosecuted under federal law.
New text message encryption method developed
• News LinkIt was reported a month ago on The Prague Post that two Czech programmers, Dr. Marian Kechlibar and Jiří Šatánek, have developed SMS007, which is a program that advertises that no third party would be able to read text messages sent with this me
Exactly how has Bush made America safer?
• AmericablogIt's one thing to give up our civil liberties in exchange for the safety of our children. It's quite another to give them up and get little in return. Let's examine just how much safer George Bush has made America since September 11.
The Price of Energy
• BBCThirteen coal miners are trapped following an explosion in a mine shaft in West Virginia.
Chalabi likely to succeed in new Iraq government
• Knight RidderEven though Ahmad Chalabi apparently lost badly in last month's parliamentary election here, the former Pentagon favorite is still likely to be a big player in the next Iraqi government.
Torture as usual at the Whitehouse
• Balkinization blogMost importantly, as to the McCain Amendment, which would categorically prohibit cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment of detainees by all U.S. personnel, anywhere in the world, the President wrote:
Soldiers have less support for Bush, War
• Military TimesSupport for President Bush and for the war in Iraq has slipped significantly in the last year among members of the military’s professional core, according to the 2005 Military Times Poll.
GOP Has Asked British SS to Spy on Dem Candidates
• The Smirking Chimp blogFox news interviewed John Loftus, Formers Justice Department Prosectutor who states that he has an inside scoop that "the Republican Party has asked the British Secret Service to bug phones of American political Candidates. "
U.S. military 'shuts down' soldiers' blogs
• NewsdayMore and more, though, US military commanders in Iraq and Afghanistan are clamping down on these military Web logs, known as milblogs. After all, digital photos of blown-up tanks and gritty comments on urban warfare don't just interest mom and da
The Patent Epidemic
• Business WeekHow to determine when an invention is "obvious" is one of the most critical and contentious issues in patent circles. Critics say, the hurdle for passing the obviousness test has been steadily lowered, and the U.S. is now awash in a sea of
Iraq must rebuild itself after $18 billion is exhausted
• London TimesTHE United States is nearing the end of its $18.4 billion fund for rebuilding Iraq, with little prospect of further multibillion-dollar injections.
Swedish pirates form political party to make RIAA walk the plank
• The InquirerSwedish file sharers have got together to form their own political party. The Pirate Party said that it is tired of being deemed a criminals and terrorists by the system for sharing a few measly files for no financial gain or loss to anyone.
US Military Still Runs With Dreaded Wolf Brigade
• AntiWar.comDespite the US command's announcement that it would seek to curb abuses by Iraqi commando units, the US military has been extremely tolerant of the most abusive unit of all – the notorious Wolf Brigade – because it regards it as highly effective
Military may rely on foreign planes
• Associated PressA defense bill approved by Congress would allow open competition for a multibillion-dollar contract to supply refueling tankers for the Air Force.
Sunni Group Agrees on Iraq Government Outline
• Associated PressIraq's main Sunni Arab group made an unprecedented trip north to see the Kurds and agreed for the first time on broad outlines for a coalition government — possibly opening a way out of the political turmoil that has gripped the country since dis
Judge orders priest to prove Christ's existance
• London TimesA judge has ordered a priest to appear in court this month to prove that Jesus Christ existed. Legal proceedings began against Father Righi after the priest denounced an author in the parish newsletter for questioning Christ’s historical existence.
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