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Senators Press Holder to Declassify Key Facts about Patriot Act

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Salem-News.com - Nov. 19 (News Report) - We believe that the information we referenced in those paragraphs – specifically about the use of section 215 – is essential to understanding the full scope of the PATRIOT Act, which is about to be debated in Congress. As we said in June, if you have concerns about declassifying the specific language contained in our letter, we ask that you work with us to find language that conveys enough information to allow for an informed public debate on the PATRIOT Act’s reauthorization

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Holder vows Gitmo defendants wouldn't be released in the U.S.

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

The Hill - By Susan Crabtree - Nov. 14 (News Report) - The attorney general has pledged not to allow the release of dangerous detainees here if they are found not guilty. Read more...

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Judge OKs Challenge to Human Gene Patents

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Wired - Nov. 03 (News Report) - A federal judge ruled Monday that a lawsuit can move forward against the Patent and Trademark Office and a research company awarded exclusive rights to human genes known to detect early signs of breast or ovarian cancer. The first-of-its-kind lawsuit

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Obama administration seeks to block wiretap suit

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Associated Press - By Devlin Barrett - Oct. 31 (News Report) - The Justice Department invoked the state secrets privilege Friday to try to stop a lawsuit over Bush-era wiretapping -- the first time the Obama administration has done so under its new policy on such cases. Attorney General Eric Holder announced the decision in a California lawsuit challenging the warrantless wiretapping program begun after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

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Church of Scientology Convicted of Fraud in France

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Associated Press - Oct. 27 (News Report) - The court convicted the Church of Scientology's French office, its library and six of its leaders of organized fraud. Investigators said the group pressured members into paying large sums of money for questionable financial gain and used ''commercial harassment'' against recruits.

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Dallas police chief: Dozens of tickets issued for not speaki

Sun, 25 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Dallas Morning News - By Scott Goldstein - Oct. 25 (News Report) - Dallas police wrongly ticketed at least 39 drivers for not speaking English over the last three years, Police Chief David Kunkle announced Friday while promising to investigate all officers involved in the cases for dereliction of duty.

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Dallas police chief: Dozens of tickets issued for not speaking English

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Dallas Morning News - By Scott Goldstein - Oct. 23 (News Report) - Dallas Police Chief David Kunkle said this afternoon that his officers have written at least 39 citations to people over the past three years for not speaking English

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Los Angeles Prepares for Clash Over Marijuana

Sun, 18 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Solomon Moore - Oct. 18 (News Report) - Law enforcement officials and marijuana supporters disagree over how to regulate the dispensaries that have sprouted in the city since 2002.

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In Mexican Drug War, Fear Compounds Investigators’ Troubles

Sat, 17 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Marc Lacey - Oct. 17 (Special Report) - Swamped with homicides and other drug crimes, investigators cope with too little expertise and too much corruption, and they are targets themselves.

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Drug War Facts - Statistics if Drugs Were Legal

Sat, 05 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Esquire - By John H. Richardson - Sep. 05 (Special Report) - "You have to take the money out of it. Many people talk about legalization and decriminalize — it's still illegal, but you're just not sending as many people to jail, especially for the nonviolent offenses. However, the money is still being made in the illegal sales, so you still have the drug wars. It's prohibition that's killing our people. That's why people are dying." Read more: http://www.esquire.com/the-side/richardson-report/drug-war-facts-090109#ixzz0QG8QtJYQ

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Appeals court rules against Ashcroft in 9/11 case

Fri, 04 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Associated Press - Sep. 04 (News Report) - A federal appeals court delivered a stinging rebuke Friday to the Bush administration's post-Sept. 11 detention policies, ruling that former Attorney General John Ashcroft can be held liable for people who were wrongfully detained as material witnesses after 9/11. A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said the government's improper use of material witnesses after Sept. 11 was "repugnant to the Constitution and a painful reminder of some of the most ignominious chapters of our national history

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C.I.A. Abuse Cases Detailed in Report on Detainees

Tue, 25 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By David Johnston, Jeff Zeleny - Aug. 25 (Breaking News) - Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. named a veteran federal prosecutor to examine abuse of prisoners held by the Central Intelligence Agency, government officials said on Monday, as officials released a C.I.A. inspector general’s report that detailed the abuses inside agency-run prisons overseas.

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Justice Dept. Report Advises Pursuing C.I.A. Abuse Cases

Mon, 24 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By David Johnston - Aug. 24 (News Report) - The Justice Department’s ethics office has recommended reversing the Bush administration and reopening nearly a dozen prisoner-abuse cases, potentially exposing Central Intelligence Agency employees and contractors to prosecution for brutal treatment of terrorism suspects, according to a person officially briefed on the matter.

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Scottish minister defends Lockerbie bomber release | Reuters

Mon, 24 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Reuters - By Ian Mackenzie - Aug. 24 (News Report) - EDINBURGH (Reuters) - Scotland's justice secretary on Monday defended his decision to free the Lockerbie bomber on humanitarian grounds in the face of severe criticism from the United States government and relatives of U.S. victims. Addressing an

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FBI director outraged by Lockerbie bomber release

Sat, 22 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Devlin Barrett - Aug. 22 (News Report) - WASHINGTON -- FBI Director Robert Mueller sharply criticized Scotland's justice minister for releasing the Lockerbie bomber, an act that "gives comfort to terrorists" all over the world. Mueller sent a letter to Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill, who cited compassionate grounds in his decision to let Abdel Baset al-Megrahi return to Libya because he has prostate cancer and was given only months to live by British doctors.

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Britain rejects talk of deal in Lockerbie release

Sat, 22 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Associated Press - By DANICA KIRKA, Delvin Barrett - Aug. 22 (News Report) - LONDON – Britain rejected Saturday any suggestion it had struck a deal with Libya to free the Lockerbie bomber — questions that arose when Moammar Gadhafi publicly thanked British officials as he embraced the man convicted of killing 270 people in the 1988 airline bombing. Gadhafi praised Prime Minister Gordon Brown and members of the royal family by name for what he described as influencing the decision to let the terminally ill Abdel Baset al-Megrahi return home to die. Thousands greeted al-Megrahi at the airport as he arrived in Tripoli after being freed Thursday from a Scottish prison.

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FBI Paid Right-Wing Blogger Charged With Threats

Thu, 20 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Wired - By David Kravets - Aug. 20 (News Report) - A notorious New Jersey hate blogger was an FBI "agent provocateur," paid tens of thousands of dollars for years to spew rhetoric, his lawyers says. Now the government has turned the tables on Hal Turner, charging that his online rants amounted to an invitation to kill judges and ...

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Threat Assessment: When Protesters Bring Guns to Health-Care Town Halls

Wed, 19 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Associated Press - By Mark Thompson - Aug. 19 (News Analysis) - The fact that protesters at President Obama's political events have begun showing up bearing arms may be disquieting, but it's perfectly legal — and the Secret Service, charged with protecting the President, insists that it is not unduly alarmed by the development. That's because while the Second Amendment guarantees Americans the right to carry guns, federal law also gives the Secret Service the right to keep gun-toting folks away from the President. ... But former Secret Service agent Joseph Petro thinks his former employer may be trying to put the best face on a bad situation. "The Secret Service is very concerned about this," says Petro, who spent 23 years as an agent, including four guarding President Reagan and his family. "It's hard enough to protect the President, and this is not helpful."

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UBS will give IRS 4,450 names of suspected tax cheats

Wed, 19 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Reuters - By Stephen Ohlemacher, Devlin Barrett, Associated Press Writers - Aug. 19 (News Report) - Swiss banking giant UBS agreed Wednesday to turn over to the IRS details of 4,450 accounts suspected of holding undeclared assets by U.S. customers, ending an intense trans-Atlantic legal fight. IRS Commissioner Doug Shulman says the accounts held $18 billion in assets at one time. Many have since been closed, he said.

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Canada court says its officials knew U.S. abused detainee

Fri, 14 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

McClatchy - By Carol Rosenberg | Miami Herald - Aug. 14 (News Report) - Canada must seek the immediate return of Toronto-born Guantanamo captive Omar Khadr rather than await the outcome of his U.S. military trial because American troops mistreated the alleged teen terrorist and Canadian officials knew about it, Canada's appeals court ruled Friday.

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Thai Judge Refuses to Extradite Suspected Arms Trafficker - washingtonpost.com

Tue, 11 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Tim Johnston - Aug. 11 (News Report) - BANGKOK, Aug. 11 -- A Russian air cargo magnate suspected of being a major arms trafficker won the first stage of his battle to avoid extradition from Thailand to the United States on charges of offering to supply weapons to Colombian rebels. Viktor Bout, 42, has spent more than a year in prison in Bangkok since being caught in a sting operation by U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration officers posing as members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, a guerrilla group known as FARC.

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Billionaire Tax Felon Says UBS Lied in Pledge to Report to IRS

Mon, 10 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Bloomberg - By David Voreacos - Aug. 10 (News Report) - With evidence from the Olenicoff case and cooperation from Birkenfeld, U.S. prosecutors have been able to penetrate the veil of financial invisibility that Switzerland guards as a national treasure. To avoid immediate prosecution, UBS, Switzerland’s second- largest bank by stock market value, behind Credit Suisse Group AG, agreed on Feb. 18 to pay the U.S. $780 million. It renewed a pledge to stop unlicensed recruiting of customers in the U.S. and agreed to cooperate with investigators during 18 months of probation. The bank admitted in court that it had helped American clients dodge taxes from 2000 to 2007.

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UBS Tax Settlement Delayed on U.S., Switzerland Talks (Update4)

Fri, 07 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Bloomberg - By David Voreacos, Mort Lucoff, Carlyn Kolker - Aug. 07 (News Report) - The U.S. and Switzerland need at least five more days to negotiate settlement of a Justice Department lawsuit against UBS AG seeking the names of Americans suspected of evading taxes through 52,000 secret Swiss accounts. U.S. District Judge Alan Gold in Miami today agreed to a request by Justice Department attorney Stuart Gibson to reschedule a telephone conference call for Aug. 12. Gibson told Gold on July 31 that the two governments had agreed in principle to settle the case and hoped to reveal final terms today.

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Environment Agency cracks down on organised crime in waste industry

Thu, 06 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

The Times - By Richard Kerbaj - Aug. 06 (News Report) - Guns, ammunition, stashes of cash and luxury cars are being seized as environment authorities try to stop organised criminals muscling in on Britain’s £9 billion waste industry, The Times can reveal. Investigations by the Environment Agency have found that gangs are illegally dumping, burying and burning commercial rubbish and setting up waste businesses as a legitimate front for illegal activities, including drug trafficking.

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William Jefferson convicted in freezer cash case

Thu, 06 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

The Politico - By John Bresnahan - Aug. 06 (News Report) - Former Rep. William Jefferson was convicted Wednesday on 11 of 16 criminal counts filed against him — including charges that he accepted bribes and engaged in money laundering while serving in Congress.

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