FCC won't probe NSA domestic spying
• ReutersThe U.S. Federal Communications Commission will not pursue complaints about a spy agency's access to millions of telephone records because it cannot obtain classified material, the FCC's chairman said.
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Venezuela supporting OPEC oil production cut
• Associated PressVenezuela will recommend cutting oil production at an upcoming OPEC meeting, Venezuela's oil minister said. "We maintain that given the level of supply in the market, a production cut is in order," Energy Minister Rafael Ramirez told re
Senate Committee endorses Hayden for CIA head
• ReutersAir Force Gen. Michael Hayden's nomination as CIA director won the endorsement of the Senate Intelligence Committee. Approved Hayden's nomination 12-3 after an hour-long closed-door discussion, said Sen. Pat Roberts of Kansas, the panel's
Bin Laden says Moussaoui not part of Sept 11
• ReutersOsama bin Laden said Zacarias Moussaoui, the only person convicted in a US court for the 9/11 attacks, had nothing to do with the operations. Bin Laden said he had personally assigned tasks to the 19 hijackers who staged the attacks on US cities wh
Conservatives splitting off from Republicans
• Common DreamsThe patriarch of US conservatives has urged his followers to halt their financial support of the Republican Party and start an independent movement, signaling a major political shift that could result in heavy losses for the US ruling party in
42% of Americans want new 9/11 Commission
• Zogby Poll (PR Web)The poll is the first scientific survey of Americans' belief in a 9/11 cover up or the need to investigate possible US government complicity. 42% believe there has indeed been a cover up and 45% think "Congress or an International Tribunal s
Muslim Chaplain Speaks on Being Imprisoned in American Gulag
• Democracy NOW!James Yee, a Muslim Chaplain, was posted in Guantanamo Bay, in 2002, but less than a year after serving there, he was accused of espionage and threatened with the death penalty. Yee was locked away in a Navy prison in Charleston, South Carolina, spen
FBI agents quiting in droves
• Los Angeles Times[Interesting that this matches the CIA pattern of disruption initiated by Porter Goss.] The FBI's storied workforce is being dismantled and reassembled as Director Robert S. Mueller III tries to overhaul the hidebound agency.
The Plan to Replace the Dollar With the 'Amero'
• by Jerome R. Corsi - www.humaneventsonline.comThe idea to form the North American Union as a super-NAFTA knitting together Canada, the United States and Mexico into a super-regional political and economic entity is well under way... (Watch the Mexican elections in July)
Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America (North American version of the European Union)
• Canadian EmbassyOn March 23, 2005, Presidents Bush and Fox, along with Prime Minister Martin launched a new partnership - the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America (SPP) - to "develop new avenues of cooperation that will make our open societies s
Snooping goes beyond Phone Calls
• Business WeekThe Departments of Justice, State, and Homeland Security spend millions annually to buy commercial databases that track Americans' finaces, phone numbers, and biographical information, according to a report last month by the US Government Account
Karzai demands answers from US over deadly attack
• By Times Online and Tim Albone in KabulAfghan officials say 16 civilians, including women and children, were killed in the raid on a village in Panjwayi district that began on Sunday night, but villagers say the real toll was much higher.
Milberg Weiss gave top Democrats funding
• ReutersMilberg Weiss Bershad & Schulman LLP, the securities class action law firm indicted last week on fraud charges stemming from corporate lawsuits it filed, made large political contributions almost exclusively to Democrats since 1999, records show.
Los Angeles Man in Milberg Weiss Case Pleads Guilty
• BloombergA Los Angeles lawyer pleaded guilty to a tax charge related to claims that he funneled money to a client linked to Milberg Weiss Bershad & Schulman, the law firm indicted last week for paying more than $11 million in kickbacks.
US immigration reform question of justice: Fox
• ReutersMexican President Vicente Fox, on the eve of a visit to the United States to lobby for immigration reform, said on Monday legalizing the status of millions of Mexican workers is a question of justice.
Mexican police use brutal tactics
• ReutersMexican police brutally put down riots in a rebellious town outside Mexico City this month and sexually abused some two dozen women in the operation, a rights watchdog said on Monday.
Wyoming government hands money over to support religious groups
• Associated PressThe Wyoming Department of Family Services has funneled tens of thousands of dollars to a grant program administered by a private religious corporation that has funded churches, ministries and religiously oriented anti-abortion centers.
Documents detail domestic spying links between AT&T and NSA
• eWeek (multiple links)Wired magazine has posted the full text of the evidence former AT&T technician Mark Klein has presented to back up an accusation that AT&T helped the federal government spy on phone and Internet traffic. The documents, here in PDF form, include de
Suit to stop your phone company participation in spying on you
• Associated PressA lawsuit filed on behalf of author Studs Terkel and other professionals seeks to stop AT&T from giving customer phone records to the NSA without a court order. The plaintiffs said they rely on confidentiality in their work and are worried their clie
Al-Qiada: Resistance cells are on their own to kill Americans
• Washington PostFrom secret hideouts in South Asia, the Spanish-Syrian al-Qaeda strategist published thousands of pages of Internet tracts on how small teams of Islamic extremists could wage a decentralized global war against the US and its allies. With the Afgha
US Ambassador: Iran can stay in power if it kneels before us
• ReutersJohn Bolton, the US ambassador to the UN, said that Iran's leaders could stay in power ... if they ended their pursuit of nuclear arms. He later insisted that he had not meant to threaten Tehran with regime change if its leaders failed to do so.
Insurgents keep U.S. at bay in Ramadi
• Associated PressWhole neighborhoods are lawless, too dangerous for police. Some roads are so bomb-laden that U.S. troops won't use them. Guerrillas attack U.S. troops nearly every time they venture out - and hit their bases with gunfire, rockets or mortars when
Religious conservatives oppose segregating Internet porn sites
• eWeekNewly released e-mails allege US government officials pressured a leading Internet authority into voting against creating a kind of red-light district for adult Web sites. If true, it means the U.S. government violated terms it has with ICANN, the I
Supremes: Police do not need to have permission to enter your house
• Washington PostThe Supreme Court ruled unanimously that police do not need a warrant to go into a home to break up a bloody fight. The ruling overturned findings by 3 Utah courts that the officers violated the 4th Amendment's prohibition against unreasonable se
Top committee Democrat gives support to CIA nominee Gen. Hayden
• Associated PRess[What? You didn't think there was going to be any real hearings on the NSA spying on you, did you?] Gen. Michael Hayden could have a new job as CIA director as soon as this week. He has the support of Sen. Carl Levin, a key Democrat on the Intell
Blair/Bush to announce withdrawal of troops from Iraq
• Raw StoryTony Blair and George Bush will announce that they are to begin withdrawing troops from Iraq at a summit in Washington as early as this week. The process has already been carefully choreographed in an attempt to bolster the popularity of both Bush an
Trial over Sergeant's abuse of prisoners begins
• ReutersA US Army sergeant went on trial on charges of abusing Iraqi inmates with his dog in the military's latest prosecution of low-ranking soldiers in the Abu Ghraib prison scandal. Testimony from Maj. Gen. Geoffrey Miller, who helped shape pol
GOP's Family Feud over Spending
• Christian Science Monitor[A bit late.] Before a vote Friday on a veterans spending bill, Rep. Jeb Hensarling (R) of Texas rose to object to the first of some $500 million in military construction projects. They were "pork projects wrapped in the American flag," he
Personal data on millions of veterans stolen
• ReutersPersonal electronic data on 26.5 million US military veterans and some spouses was stolen from the home of a government employee, exposing veterans to the risk of identity theft. "This data including names, social security numbers, and dates of
FTC gasoline price probe finds nothing illegal
• ReutersThe Federal Trade Commission found no evidence that oil companies illegally manipulated gasoline prices or constrained oil refining capacity to restrict supply. The spike in gasoline prices after Katrina was in line with "standard supply-and-dem
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