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• New Docs: Pentagon Ignored FBI’s Warnings on Abusive Interrogations

  
  The Political Carnival — Authority: 672
  By GottaLaff After reading The Dark Side by Jane Mayer, this isnt all that new. But thats a book, and these are declassified Department of Justice-released documents : Sadly, they reveal that the FBI knew perfectly well — and repeatedly warned Defense Department officials, as well as Justice Department ...
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• Declassified Docs Reveal Pentagon Ignored FBI’s Warnings on Abusive Interrogations

  
  The Washington Independent Blog — Authority: 154
  The Justice Department released more documents — or, at least, less-redacted documents — late Friday to the American Civil Liberties Union as part of the government’s obligation in a pending Freedom of Information Act lawsuit. These latest documents provide a glimpse of the early struggles between the FBI and ...
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• YouTube video sinks Turnbull minder

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 432
  A media minder for Federal Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull has reportedly quit his job after being linked to an online bout of Liberal factional warfare. The video parodies Liberal MP Alex Hawke by portraying him as an enraged Adolf Hitler, echoing a YouTube trend of dubbing Hitler biopic Downfall with fake ...
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• How the Fort Hood Shooter Will be Judged

  
  The New Ledger Features — Authority: 583
  [tweetmeme] I n a time of war, they volunteered to defend us. They would have died as heroes for us. Had they, at least their families might be making some sense of the terrible loss they must feel now. With loss, there might at least be meaning — the understanding that their loss is what history has always ...
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• Spying on Americans: Obama Endorses Bush Era Warrantless Wiretapping

  
  War On You: Breaking Alternative News — Authority: 551
  Spying on Americans: Obama Endorses Bush Era Warrantless Wiretapping Antifascist Calling… – 2009-11-05 by Tom Burghardt President Barack Obama instructed Justice Department attorneys to  argue last week in San Francisco before Federal District Judge Vaughn Walker, that he must toss out the Electronic ...
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• A terrorist and a criminal aren’t the same thing and shouldn’t be tried in the same courts.

  
  HotMES — Authority: 561
  We have tried terrorists as criminals before and we have seen how well that worked out. Unfortunately for us, it appears that Congress doesn’t understand this and so, here we are, back to prosecuting terrorists as if they are common criminals : The Democratic-controlled Senate on Thursday turned back a GOP-led ...
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• BREAKING New Orleans ACORN Office Being Raided

  
  Mcnorman's Weblog — Authority: 439
  In a fast-breaking development comes word that agents of the Attorney’s General office in Louisiana have raided ACORN’s offices in New Orleans. ACORN’s New Orleans was, for decades, the headquarters of the national community organizing association. News of the raid comes from Marcel Reid and her colleagues at ...
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• Senate Kills Graham Amendment

  
  The Washington Independent Blog — Authority: 154
  The Senate just tabled the amendment proposed by Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) that would have prohibited use of Justice Department funds to prosecute the 9/11 terror suspects in U.S. federal courts. Effectively, that means it’s dead. The amendment, S.A. 2669, to the Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies ...
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• More Individuals to Be Charged With Insider Trading

  
  Business Finance & Economy - business.marc8.com — Authority: 163
  Authorities will charge 14 people, including investment professionals and lawyers, with insider trading, the Justice Department said Thursday morning.
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• For the record: defending ACORN was a mistake.

  
  Mcnorman's Weblog — Authority: 439
  LA Times For the record.ACORN: An Oct. 22 Op-Ed article about the community group ACORN stated that, in two ACORN offices, staff members offered advice to a pair of videographers posing as proprietors of a prostitution ring. While tapes of all the offices visited by the pair have not been released, it is clear from ...
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• Italian Ruling a Milestone Verdict--And Embarrassment for the CIA

  
  Newsweek Blogs — Authority: 721
  By Mark Hosenball and Michael Isikoff The ruling by an Italian judge convicting 23 Americans—including several CIA officers—for plotting the abduction of a Muslim cleric is a milestone verdict on several fronts: It represents the first legal judgment by a foreign court that elements of the Bush administrations ...
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• American Small Business League to Recoup Legal Fees from the DOJ

  
  The FOI Advocate — Authority: 133
  Now that the Small Business Administration (SBA) has dropped its appeal of a California federal courts legal fees award, the American Small Business League will collect its attorneys fee award from the Department of Justice.  The case stemmed from the SBAs denial of the Leagues request for names of firms receiving ...
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• Fed’s med-marijuana ruling: Does it affect workplace drug bans?

  
  HRMorning.com — Authority: 138
  The U.S. Justice Department has announced it won’t enforce federal laws banning marijuana use for medical purposes, and some states have OK’d prescription pot. So, how do those rulings affect workplace anti-drug policies? Most importantly, if your firm bans the use of marijuana — medical or otherwise — as ...
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• Omnicare Agrees to Pay Close to $100 Million To Settle Case with Justice Department – Paying and Receiving Kickbacks From Ivax and Johnson and Johnson

  
  The Medical Quack — Authority: 516
  One of the companies accused in the case of providing kickbacks was Johnson and Johnson in their marketing of Risperdal.  In addition $8 million in kickbacks from drug manufacturer IVAX in exchange for an agreement to purchase $50 million dollars worth of drugs.  With Risperdal coming off of patent that somewhat ...
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• How a Top Asset Manager Recommends We Fix the Financial System

  
  The Daily Reckoning — Authority: 645
  Jeremy Grantham, chairman of asset management firm GMO, has released his latest letter and he’s focused on how the financial system should be redesigned. He offers a valuable two step process for potentially avoiding a second wave of financial crisis. The first step he suggests is banning or separating the ...
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• Former OLC Director Not Opposed to Criminal Investigation of OLC Lawyers

  
  The Washington Independent Blog — Authority: 154
  Former Acting Assistant Attorney General Daniel Levin, who headed the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel under President George W. Bush after the departure of Jack Goldsmith, said this morning that “I personally am not opposed to criminal investigation of my conduct and others during the period in ...
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• Red Herrings Are Not Kipper Snacks

  
  cab drollery — Authority: 472
  Ive discovered something interesting: some of the most rational analysis on health care reform can be found in the business pages of the Los Angeles Times . Two columnists in particular, Davis Lazarus and Michael Hiltzik, have done a fine job in pointing out just how we got to where we are in this health care cost ...
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• Letter: Monsanto’s Practices

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 915
  To the Editor:.
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• Holder’s Invocation of State Secrets Privilege Shields Government From Accountability

  
  The Washington Independent Blog — Authority: 154
  As Marcy Wheeler and Glenn Greenwald both pointed out over the weekend, Eric Holder on Friday once again declared that a case charging government lawbreaking must be dismissed because to let it continue would reveal important “state secrets.” That’s despite the fact that Attorney General Eric Holder not ...
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• Obama Adopts Bushs State Secrets Position -- And Exact Language -- In NSA Spying Case

  
  TPMMuckraker — Authority: 782
  Heres a good catch from Michael Isikoff on the new blog Declassified at Newsweek : It looks like the Obama Administration is invoking the state secrets privilege in a lawsuit alleging illegal surveillance by the National Security Agency -- and its using the exact wording used by the Bush Administration two years ...
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