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Guards have begun strapping recalcitrant detainees into "restraint chairs," sometimes for hours a day, to feed them through tubes and prevent them from deliberately vomiting afterward. Detainees who refuse to eat have also been placed in is
Yahoo Inc. provided evidence to Chinese authorities that led to the imprisonment of an Internet writer, its second such case. A spokeswoman for Yahoo said the company was looking into the matter. "As in most jurisdictions, governments are not
Twice in the past 4 years, a top Justice Department lawyer warned the presiding judge of a secret surveillance court that information overheard in President Bush's eavesdropping program may have been improperly used to obtain wiretap warrants in
Lawyers for a 44-year-old naturalized American citizen have been pressing a federal district judge to intervene in their client's case, saying that he had been arrested and held in Iraq for more than a year without being charged or given access t
The director of the CIA has launched a major internal probe into media leaks about covert operations. Porter Goss blamed "a very small number of people" for leaks about secret CIA operations that "do damage to the credibility of the ag
The U.S. government wants an Iraqi court to prosecute an American citizen who is being held in Iraq on suspicion that he is a senior operative of al-Zarqawi. Once served in the Minnesota National Guard, held since late 2004 as an enemy combatant. No
A suspected nerve agent forced the evacuation of a US Senate office building late on Wednesday until tests concluded the vapor that set off the alarm was harmless. Some 200 people, including several senators, were quarantined for 3 hours in a nearby
Deaths of 51 U.S. patients who took widely prescribed drugs to treat attention deficit disorder prompted regulators to start watching for heart attacks, high blood pressure and other problems in 2004, with many doctors and parents arguing the medicin
The debate over controlling access to the Internet took center stage in the U.S. Senate this week during a hearing that focused on "network neutrality" and possible new legislation that advocates say would protect the Internet from being fr
The US government is developing a massive computer system that can collect huge amounts of data and, by linking far-flung information from blogs and e-mail to government records and intelligence reports, search for patterns of terrorist activity.
Following a wave of negative publicity and pressure from the government, several Web sites that peddled people's private phone records are calling it quits. The Federal Trade Commission conducted a sweep of 40 sites known to have been selling pri
What's striking isn't that Conyers is calling on Gonzales to appoint a special prosecutor. He's done it before. But his seeking a Justice Dept. investigation of pre-war policy and manipulation of the press has met resounding silence among
[His experience with lobbyists makes him a natural.] Indicted Rep. Tom DeLay, forced to step down as the No. 2 Republican in the House, scored a soft landing as GOP leaders rewarded him with a coveted seat on the Appropriations Committee.
A new and statistical report, authored by Seton Hall Law Professor Mark and Joshua Denbeaux, on the background of those held at Guantanamo. Based on data supplied by the Defense Department to provide "a more detailed picture of who the Guantana
The sisters say the monastery's main bank account was frozen without explanation, creating financial headaches. The Patriot Act was the cause. The troubles started because a 80-year-old nun didn't have her SS number and photo ID on file.
What nobody talked about was spying programs like data mining browser and search engine usage, surveillance of peace and anti-war groups, data mining emails, using "total information awareness" type databases, data mining domestic phone cal
In the same breath, the President openly acknowledged that he has ordered the government to spy on Americans, on American soil, without the warrants required by law. The President admitted that he has deprived Americans of one of their most basic fre
A White House aide who was once chief of staff to House Majority Leader John Boehner helped plan a 1996 trip to the Northern Mariana Islands that was organized by fallen lobbyist Jack Abramoff. Barry Jackson, now chief deputy to Karl Rove, accepted a
John Boehner (R-OH), elected House Majority Leader last week, is renting his Capitol Hill apartment from a veteran lobbyist whose clients have direct stakes in legislation Boehner has cowritten/overseen http://crooksandliars.com/2006/02/08.html#a7073
School principal Margaret Seibel says this year’s trip for Taft kindergarteners had to be canceled due to homeland security concerns. Access to the NASA Visitor Center is restricted to US citizens. All others might be terrorists. No tourists fro
A request by Mr. Gonzales produced the Justice Department memorandum of Aug. 1, 2002, which defined torture narrowly and said that Mr. Bush could circumvent domestic and international prohibitions against torture in the name of national security.
* Army demands $700 from Soldier for bloody armor. The last time 1st Lt. William “Eddie” Rebrook IV saw his body armor, he was lying on a stretcher in Iraq, his arm shattered and covered in blood. * An Arab-American political activist currently teac
NSA surveillance may have inadvertently spied on the e-mails of Americans with no ties to terrorists, Attorney General Gonzales said. Adequate steps are taken to protect privacy but he is unable to describe such procedures because it is secret
At least 3 reporters involved in an Oct. 2003 Time magazine article that reported Karl Rove was no longer under suspicion of outing Valerie Plame knew at the time of the article that Rove had, in fact, outed Plame.
"As usual, the Republicans like to have it both ways. They love the authority and violence of the state, from the trigger-happy cop on the street all the way up to the bomb-happy president in the Oval Office. But they also love pretending to be
Mexico issued a complaint against an American-owned hotel that—under pressure from the US government—expelled a group of Cuban businessmen meeting US energy executives, saying the company violated US investment and trade protection laws
The flags also block the view of an huge electronic sign set up at the U.S. mission in Havana, on the 5th floor, that has angered communist officials by displaying streaming news and human rights messages. [This is funny as hell!]
Sheehan, whose son was killed in Iraq, has been actively considering a campaign after criticizing Feinstein for refusing to call for an immediate withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq.
We were warned: Liberalisation of drink laws would fuel disorder The sober truth: Serious violent crime has fallen 21% - and is down by twice that in some towns - while there are 14% fewer woundings
WASHINGTON -- Armed men in Mexican military uniforms have illegally crossed into the United States to provide cover for drug smugglers, and have fired upon U.S. Border Patrol agents on several occasions, a congressional panel was told Tuesday.
