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• Chicago Man Is Charged in 2008 Attack on Mumbai

  
  NYT > Global Home — Authority: 154
  Prosecutors say a man who is charged in a plot against a Danish newspaper helped survey targets for the massacre in Mumbai.
  20 hours ago

• US officials charge Headley with involvement in 26/11 (Lead)

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 728
  Chicago, Dec 7 (IANS) US law enforcement authorities Monday filed charges against suspected Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) operative and Chicago resident David Coleman Headley specifically accusing him of involvement in the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks.Headley, 49, is currently in federal custody without bond since his arrest ...
  21 hours ago

• Chicagoan Charged with Conspiracy in 2008 Mumbai Attacks in Addition to Foreign Terror Plot in Denmark

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 728
  Dec 7 (THAINDIAN NEWS) New federal charges filed today allege that a Chicago man, who was arrested in October for planning terrorist attacks against a Danish newspaper and two of its employees, also conducted extensive surveillance of targets in Mumbai for more than two years preceding the November 2008 terrorist ...
  22 hours ago

• SCOTUS to Take Up ‘Vague’ Fraud Law

  
  The Washington Independent Blog — Authority: 154
  The Supreme Court is set to hear three big cases charging that the anti-corruption laws are too vague and recent high-level prosecutions under them must be struck down. The law at issue, an amendment to the Wire and Mail Fraud Act of 1988 , makes it illegal for public or private employees to “deprive another of ...
  23 hours ago

• Western Race Hatred Laws: Keep the Caucasians Down

  
  Candid Conservatives — Authority: 133
  Throughout the totalitarian West, the Marxist internationalist elites, while busily flooding their countries with tens of millions of third worlders, have introduced specific measures to keep the native populations down and in check. These measures have come in the form of Hate Crimes Laws. The laws state that a ...
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• Geithner Rejects Goldman Sachs Assertion It Didn’t Need U.S. Help

  
  Survival News Network — Authority: 142
  Geithner, 48, took issue with that, saying that the entire financial system was at risk at the height of the crisis, including Wall Street’s big institutions.…“None of them would have survived” had the government stood aside and let the crisis run its course, he said. “The entire U.S. financial system and ...
  2 days ago

• More than one third of those who sexually abuse kids are juveniles

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 728
  Washington, Dec 6 (ANI): A new study from the University of New Hampshire Crimes against Children Research Center has found that more than one third of those who sexually abuse children are other juveniles.UNH researchers found that juveniles account for more than one-third (35.6 percent) of those known to police to ...
  2 days ago

• FDL Book Salon Welcomes Mark A. Kleiman, When Brute Force Fails

  
  Firedoglake — Authority: 726
  [Welcome Mark A. Kleiman , and Host bmaz - bev] When Brute Force Fails: How to Have Less Crime and Less Punishment Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses …. and we’ll lock em up. With an exploding incarceration rate, punitive detention in the United States has become not just a growth industry, ...
  2 days ago

• And Still She Waits

  
  Firedoglake — Authority: 726
  She Who Waits Eleven months ago today, President Obama announced four people he intended to nominate for senior positions at the Department of Justice. David Ogden and Thomas Perrelli were confirmed on March 12, 2009, and Elena Kagen on March 19th. Meanwhile, Dawn Johnsen — the nominee to head the Office ...
  2 days ago

• Montanas Would-Be U.S. Attorney

  
  In General Counsel — Authority: 125
  If we recall correctly, in the Woody Allen film Hannah and Her Sisters , each character wanted to be with someone else. Maybe that describes all of Woody Allens movies. Anyway, in real life, that A wants to be with C rather than B doesnt necessarily make any of them in general bad persons. It all depends on the ...
  3 days ago

• A Court Martial Fuels Anger in the Blogosphere

  
  Progressive News Daily — Authority: 163
  By The Project for Excellence in Journalism A story that has generated little attention in the mainstream media was the most popular subject among bloggers last week. From November 23-27, 40% of the links in blogs were to a November 24 Fox News report about the pending court martial of three Navy SEALs who ...
  3 days ago

• National Briefing | Southwest: Texas: Black Leader Defends Official

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 902
  The leader of the New Black Panther Party for Self-Defense defended a decision by the Justice Department to drop a voter intimidation suit against the group.
  3 days ago

• CDFI Fund experiences new demand

  
  Bricks and Mortar — Authority: 116
  Demand Up 97 Percent in FY 2010 Round of CDFI Program CDFI Fund Receives 408 Applications Requesting More Than $467 Million Washington, DC – The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Community Development Financial Institutions Fund (CDFI Fund) announced today that it received a total of 408 applications ...
  3 days ago

• Buffett Takes Some Anti-Hypocrisy Pills, Realizes Subsidies Are Actually Bad

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 751
  The man who has benefited more from governmental subsidies for financial companies (which also happen to comprise his core investments) than anyone else, Warren Buffett, has decided to cry foul and complain to the SEC over what is quickly becoming a war in the news wire world. Turns out, his Business Wire firm, which ...
  3 days ago

• Judicial Snapshot

  
  Progressive News Daily — Authority: 163
  from Justice Watch As Republicans attempt to “revive Obama court pick fight” it is important to stay informed about judicial nominations. At Alliance for Justice we not only keep track of the pace of judicial nominations, we provide in-depth reports for Supreme Court and Circuit Court nominees, and track the ...
  3 days ago

• DOJ Doubles Down in Its Defense of John Yoo

  
  The Washington Independent Blog — Authority: 154
  Talk about getting a second bite of the apple. I’ve written before about the problem with the Department of Justice jumping in to defend a lawsuit charging that John Yoo was responsible for torture and abuse of “enemy combatant” Jose Padilla. Given that Yoo is the subject of an ethics investigation by DOJ — ...
  3 days ago

• Editorial: Protection for the Vulnerable

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 902
  Westchester needs to make sweeping reforms to bring its jail into compliance with federal law. If it fails, the Justice Department should sue the county.
  4 days ago

• Deputy Attorney General to Step Down in February

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 902
  David W. Ogden said tensions did not prompt his decision.
  4 days ago

• VIDEO: The Human Cost of Guantanamo

  
  The Political Carnival — Authority: 683
  By GottaLaff Please watch this video. Please. It says so much in 13 minutes. Andy Worthington has spent the past several years exposing the stories of the hundreds of men who were taken to Guantanamo prison. The British journalist, who is also a contributing reporter to Truthout, produced a groundbreaking ...
  4 days ago

• Bear vs. Ninja: Nota Bene #2009-43

  
  Scholars and Rogues — Authority: 614
  “Overture, curtain, lights / This is it. We’ll hit the heights / And oh, what sites we’ll hit / On with the links, this is it!” Enjoy! … “When he was on an operating table with his chest cracked open, everyone assumed Command Sgt. Maj. Thompson’s long Army career was over ” … “I felt at that ...
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