Scooter Libby is apparently planning to rely on a “I was a very busy man to remember details” defense to the perjury and obstruction of justice indictment against him. The testimony simply contained “inconsistencies” that were the result of “the hect
BAGHDAD, Nov 1 (Reuters) - Five hundred prisoners walked free from the U.S. military's Abu Ghraib jail in Iraq on Tuesday, released in a goodwill gesture to mark the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.
Addington has been a key figure in many of the White House's most controversial moves. He is the principal author of a memo that justifies the torture of terrorism suspects. He also headed the fight to keep secret the names of corporations involv
One almost suspects that such legal proceedings are little more than the regime’s proven method of diverting attention away from its greatest criminals and their greatest crimes.
To date, all we have to show for the legal process against top U.S. officials is an indictment for one apparatchik's workaday dirty tricks. So far, so good, Mr. Fitzgerald....you have miles and miles ahead of you if justice is to be served.
The lesson the Bushies are learning is that the neocons are nothing but trouble, and it just isn't worth it to go to bat for them. It may, however, be a lesson learned far too late. Bush's presidency is sinking faster than ....
Case, who stepped down as chairman in 2003, was one of the original architects of the merger of AOL and Time Warner, which helped erase more than $200 billion in shareholder value from the stock and was the target of two government probes into its ac
In the largest National Guard mobilization since the Korean War, 'citizen-soldiers' across America have been called upon to serve in armed conflict overseas. Off to War documents the Arkansas National Guard's deployment in Iraq during 200
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The Silver Users Association (SUA), a group devoted to the conflicting goals of keeping silver prices low and keeping silver available for users, stunned the silver investing community last month by repeating the claims made by silver investors and a
The rulers of the United States rule over far more than you and me. They control and strongly influence many foreign rulers of dependent satellite countries. This extended rule makes our Presidents the powerful emperors of a vast Empire.
Microsoft and law-enforcement agencies are filing lawsuits to track down the culprits -- but it's unlikely that this single effort will eliminate the problem.
BEIJING, Oct. 27 -- Google is testing a new searchable database service, called Google Base, which will expand the company's reach into online classifieds and into the territory of Internet auctioneer eBay.
Fraud in the U.N. oil-for-food scheme for Iraq reached from French politicians to a former Vatican aide and name-brand companies, sending a sobering message about the state of global business, the chief investigator said after publishing his conclusi
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff, has been told he could face indictment in the CIA leak probe, a political source familiar with the situation told CNN.
LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- George Takei, who as helmsman Sulu steered the Starship Enterprise through three television seasons and six movies, has come out as a homosexual in the current issue of Frontiers, a biweekly Los Angeles magazine coveri
Tehran, Iran, Oct. 28 – Iran’s ultra-conservative President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad defended on Friday his statement earlier this week calling for the destruction of the state of Israel.
The United Nations is under increasing attack by critics in the United States and other countries. At the heart of the organization's mounting problems is an almost total lack of accountability, which gives rise to suspicions of wholesale corrupt
Private businesses from around the nation immediately responded by shipping water and other supplies. FEMA responded by turning the supplies back as not needed.
... Wal-Mart is a “corporate criminal.” Loni Hancock, a California legislator, asserts that Wal-Mart’s fortune “has been built on human misery.” A variety of critics have accused the company of engaging in questionable and exploitive practices....
CALHAN - Folks in this close-knit community on the eastern plains are baffled and worried about two mysterious incidents in which 22 horses and a burro were found dead.
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A curious and twisting episode that began in the sixth paragraph of a 2003 newspaper column could culminate Friday in criminal charges reaching to the top echelons of the White House.
After a sexual assault one recent weekend, a young Tucson woman spent three frantic days trying to obtain the drug to prevent a pregnancy, knowing that each passing day lowered the chance the drug would work.
Led by Vice President Dick Cheney, the administration is floating a proposal that would allow the president to exempt covert agents outside the Defense Department from the ban.
GM said in the filing that the Securities and Exchange Commission is also probing "certain transactions" with parts supplier Delphi. The SEC wants to find out more about the obligations that GM, Delphi's former parent, will have to fund