US privacy protections rank among the worst in the democratic world, a London-based privacy organization said Wednesday. Privacy International ranked 36 nations around the globe, including all European Union nations and other major
The recent security breach at Los Alamos National Laboratory was very serious, with sensitive materials being taken out of the facility. (they can't secure their own nuclear facilities, how do we expect them to secure the country?)
The Bush adminstration has told a federal judge that terrorism suspects held in secret CIA prisons should not be allowed in secret CIA prisons should not be allowed to reveal details of the "alternative interrogation methods" that their cap
In 1994, Deval Patrick, the Democratic candidate for governor who was then assitant attorney general, concluded there was insufficient basis to prosecute FBI sniper Lon Horiuchi for shooting and killing 43-year old Vicki Weaver.
Algeria, Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia, UAE and Saudi Arabia seek atom technology. The Spectre of a nuclear race in the Middle East was raised yesterday when 6 Arab states announced that they were embarking on programmes to master
What's your terrorism quotient? US Customs and Border Patrol agents will know with a newly announced Automated Targeting System, a data mining system which will use the Treasury's "Watch List" data provided to it by the airlines, y
Does the government have the right to keep secret a law that is applied to millions of Americans every day? That's the question John Gilmore has asked the Supreme Court to decide in his petition to the Court, filed on the 4th of August 2006.
Forget no-fly lists. If Uncle Sam gets its way, begining on Jan 14, 2007, we'll all be on no-fly lists, unless the government gives us permission to leave-or re-enter the United States. The US Dept of Homeland Security has proposed that all air
Remember, remember
the Seventh of November,
the Republican treason and plot.
I know of no reason
why bankruptcy, war and treason
should ever be forgot.
Mr Tesler swears that Cheney knew about the bribes. He testified under oath in May 2004 that he made payments to Jack Stanley, while Stanley was president of KBR, and specifically testified that Cheney approved the payments.
A Republican congressman accused of abusing his ex-mistress agreed to pay her about $500,000 in a settlement last year that contained a powerful incentive for her to keep quiet until after Election Day.
Since 9/11, our Constitution has been under severe attack as virtually each of the 10 amendments, except the third amendment regarding the quartering troops, has been gutted.
The president of the U.S. National Association of Evangelicals, who has had regular talks with the White House and vocally opposes gay marriage, resigned after being accused of having a sexual relationship with a male escort.
President Bush has not fired any of the architects of the Iraq war. In fact, a review of the key planners of the conflict reveals that they have been rewarded – not blamed – for their incompetence.
The most appealing argument for invading and conquering another nation is precisely this one: war is awful, but is the lesser of moral evils when it is the only means to save lives.
You have to give the neoconservatives credit for tenacity. Any other political or ideological group saddled with their record would crawl off into the shadows to expire without fanfare. Not the neocons. Vampire-like, they rise from the crypt of Bush*
I recently returned from a trip to Iran, where I made the journey from the northern suburbs of Tehran to the gates of the Natanz enrichment facility. The Iran that I witnessed was far removed from the one caricatured in the US media.
Last week, a group of current troops, with support from a handful of antiwar organizations, announced plans to petition Congress with a collection of "appeals for redress," which call for an immediate withdrawal from Iraq.
Defense Authorization Act allows the president to declare a 'public emergency' and station troops anywhere in America and take control of National Guard units without the consent of the governor in order to 'suppress public disorder.
Mr. Gonzales said in response to a question at a news conference that there was no political motivation behind the arrests and that the Justice Dept. “played no role in the timing of this program,” [just announcing it] less than a week before the mid
The Pentagon expects to begin conducting the first war crimes trials at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, under the new military commission law by summer, senior military officials have said.
Investigations led by a Republican lawyer in Iraq have sent American occupation officials to jail on bribery and conspiracy charges, exposed disastrously poor construction work by well-connected companies like Halliburton and Parsons, and discovered
The federal government set up a Web site to make public a vast archive of Iraqi documents captured during the war. The Bush administration did so under pressure from Congressional Republicans who hoped to “leverage the Internet” to find new evidence