With little money to unearth details about his client's past, Jackson did not chronicle the mitigating circumstances that could have helped his client's cause. The jury learned almost nothing about the import of King's low IQ, his childho
"We need Iran to stop doing what they're doing," one of the officials said. "It's a force-protection issue."
The officials Sunday accused the Iranian Revolutionary Guard's Quds force of providing the devices, but o
Unidentified source document of Iran's implicated involvement in arming the Iraqi resistance. Presumably DOD. Three U.S. defense officials who refused to be named, accused the Iranian government of providing Shiite Muslim militias in Iraq with
A special unit run by former Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld's top policy aide inappropriately produced "alternative" intelligence reports that wrongly concluded that Saddam Hussein's regime had cooperated with al-Qaida, a P
Unresolved questions over whether Israeli agents were tracking the 9/11 hijackers before September 11th. ABC’s 20/20, The Forward, and Salon.com have all covered the story. But where’s the follow up? We speak to
An American citizen who has been held by U.S. military forces in Iraq for more than two years cannot be transferred to Iraqi authorities for trial on terrorism charges, a federal appeals court ruled.
De Beers, the world's top diamond company, said sales fell by 44% in 2006 for the first time in six years. [no money=no buying diamonds...plus diamonds can now be synthesized inexpensively=not a good investment]
Tim Russert's handling of his involvement in Plamegate speaks volumes about the very chummy relationship that has developed between the Washington press corps and government officials, and reflects badly on Russert's commitment to journalisti
Veteran Iowa editor wants outsiders, not people in the news industry, to examine why the press is reluctant to challenge authority at times when the country most needs a vigorous, questioning fourth estate.
For the equivalent of 35 cents an hour, the youths were playing computer games in an underground Internet cafe, one of a half-dozen information-age speak-easies in this little farming and coal-mining town 220 miles from Beijing.
Last week, a federal immigration judge threw out the US government's deportation case against the two Palestinians, calling it "an embarrassment to the rule of law."
In a private White House meeting, Bush vetoed the deal, threatening to cut off all contact with Abbas’ party if the Palestinian leader joined a government with Hamas—to which Fatah had been reduced to a US client regime, Abbas dutifully insisted the
We hear over and over again that it "takes 60 votes to get something serious done in the Senate." That is a lot of malarkey. It takes only one senator to begin a filibuster against any bill. And then only 41 votes to uphold that filibuster
About a 3 minute clip which claims there was a link between Saddam and bin Laden. No hard evidence other than meetings between officials of Iraq and Al-Qaeda. You decide!!!!!
Even as rebellion grows in some state capitals against the looming Real ID mandate from Congress, proponents speaking Thursday on a panel at the RSA Conference could barely contain their enthusiasm for putting standard government-issued ID cards
Saudi Arabia is watching with fear as the US debates whether to stay in Iraq or leave. For while Washington may walk away from Iraq if President Bush's so-called surge plan fails, Saudi Arabia, which shares a more than 500-mile border with Iraq,
"The bottom line is that intelligence relating to the Iraq-al-Qaeda relationship was manipulated by high-ranking officials in the Department of Defense to support the administration's decision to invade Iraq. The inspector general's repo
The Israelis, stung by their defeat at the hands of Hezbollah, are aching for a rematch. There have been a number of border incidents since the IDF retreated and the blockade was lifted, the most recent – and most brazen – occurring when the Israelis
NY Times Executive Editor Bill Keller announced the paper's longtime staff writer Michael Gordon is not an actual person, but rather a voice-activated tape recorder. After "Gorgon's" front page story, "Deadliest Bomb in Iraq Is
The reins to the U.S. military effort in Iraq were handed Saturday to Gen. David Petraeus, whose plan to bring more soldiers into Baghdad hinges on the gamble that it will buy time for the beleaguered Iraqi government to cement control of the country
State Rep. Ed Homan of Tampa introduced HB 561, which would prohibit students from admission into schools without proving they have been vaccinated for HPV.
Cameras fitted to seat-backs will record every twitch, blink, facial expression or suspicious movement before sending the data to onboard software which will check it against individual passenger profiles.
Police seized a vehicle belonging to a Michigan State University student claiming her license plate, which had NOT expired, was illegal. The State is in the process of issuing new plates that make it easier for photo radar systems to read license num
Vladimir Putin threw down the gauntlet to the west in a confrontational speech on Saturday, attacking what he called "illegal" US unilateral military action and arguing it had made the world more dangerous. To a shocked audience that includ
"America: Freedom To Fascism" a groundbreaking non-partisan political
documentary jumps overnight to #1 on "Google Video United Kingdom" and #4 on
"Google Video Worldwide".
"That said, if we're going to have felony murder crimes, police and government agents need to be held to the same standard as everyone else. To that end, the charges against Officers Junnier, Smith, and Tesler are welcome news."
As federal and state laws become more expansive and historical liberties are routinely crushed, perhaps it is time to look at the laws themselves, as opposed to seeing only whether President Bush’s actions are legal.
Very odd that the Washington Post is the only source being cited for the IG's OSP report, given that someone (cough) had followed this story for years. So here is a roundup of the intel cooked, which would seemingly be illegal, but appears not to
These mobile e-tools of Satan provide precisely what many people navigating the outside world want and need: obliviousness. Indeed, young people see it as a basic human right, like free speech and gun-toting.
Private investigators hired by the city to conduct sting operations on out-of-state gun shops could be breaking the law, and the dealers they caught making illegal sales will not be prosecuted, federal officials said.