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Raw Story

And it was very daring, I thought. If we lived in a country of law, I’d have known exactly what to do: I’d bring charges. But we don’t. This is a country of cronies! “Heck of a job, Brownie!” I should have screamed from the housetops. “Heck of a

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AzCentral.com

Bush knew what he was getting in 2001 when he made Walton one of his first picks for the federal bench. A tough-on-crime judge, Walton proved to be exactly the kind of judge Bush was looking for - at least until Bush's buddy Libby came along...

The House Judiciary Committee will hold hearings next week into the decision to commute Libby's sentence, according to a separate report. The committee is likely to focus on Federal District Judge Reggie Walton’s, who sentenced Libby, assertion tha

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Sign on San Diego

Transcripts of four hearings in the case of Thomas Kontogiannis, a financier who pleaded guilty in connection with the Randy "Duke" Cunningham scandal, will remain sealed, a federal appeals court said yesterday. Kontogiannis pleaded guilty

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Seacoast Online

Homeowners are outraged that a plan to extend a sewer line could cost them as much as $50,000 per house. Some residents say the project's real purpose is to benefit two businesses and that sewer district trustees will ignore their wishes — even i

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Washington Post

The project started in 2003 with a $2 million contract to help the new Dept. of Homeland Security quickly get an intelligence operation up and running. Over the next year, the cost of the no-bid arrangement with consultant Booz Allen Hamilton soared

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Timothy Carney

Here's the website for investigative reporter, and author Timothy P. Carney. I recently read his great book, "The Big Ripoff". Here are his articles and videos, as well as, excerpts from the book.

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AP

BAE Systems PLC said Tuesday that the US Dept of Justice has begun an investigation of the company's dealings with Saudi Arabia. BAE's brief announcement said the investigation related to the company's compliance with anti-corruption law

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http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/

The lawsuit filed by Pearson, an administrative law judge, has been mocked worldwide as a frivolous and outrageous legal action, and cost the Chungs two years of litigation, sleepless nights, financial and emotional stress.

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CBS News

So five years ago the Coast Guard undertood a massive modernization program called "Deepwater" and ended up way over its head. As correspondent Steve Kroft reports, the $24 billion project has turned into a fiasco that has set new standard

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dallasnews.com

Officer Mark Torres was placed on administrative leave Monday night. Hours later, after being questioned by public-integrity investigators over the $700 theft, he was arrested on one count of felony theft by a public servant.

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Raw Story

Researchers at Purdue University have created a computer model attempting to answer how the buildings came down. The website TRUTHORLIES.ORG believes that the simulation "raises more questions then answers."

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by Eric Margolis (LewRockwell)

Anyone who wants to understand what really goes on in the Mideast should have a look at the scandal that erupted earlier this month over the outsized character of Prince Bandar of Saudi Arabia.

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Raw Story (video)

Olbermann went on to describe the "jaw-dropping scandal" uncovered by Congressional investigators, where, in the most serious breach of the Presidential Records Act since its enactment, hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of emails impr

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theagitator.com

One of my co-panelists was Regina Kelly, a resident of Hearne, Texas who was wrongly arrested, jailed, and indicted based on the word of a confidential informant who not only had psychological problems, but was facing his own robbery charges, and cla

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