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• Handy Chart Tracks Proposed Amendments to Patriot Act

  
  Privacy Digest — Authority: 436
  Handy Chart Tracks Proposed Amendments to Patriot Act : Via Threat Level . Confused by all the proposed changes to the Patriot Act ricocheting through the Capitol? The Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT) has put together a handy chart comparing the current law with the various amendments in the House and ...
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• Rush to Judgment: Talk Radio’s “Truth Detector” Blows a Fuse—Again

  
  All Spin Zone — Authority: 540
  By Walter Brasch It wasn’t unusual that Rush Limbaugh went ballistic on his show, Nov. 13. He does that several times a day. It wasn’t unusual that he mixed a few facts with opinion and outright lies in his three-hour daily show. Fact checking for the man who calls himself “America’s Truth Detector” is ...
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• Revised Google Books Settlement Still Has Critics

  
  WebProNews Feed — Authority: 692
  Another milestone in a significant legal dispute has passed; a revised version of the Google Books settlement was submitted to U.S. District Court late Friday.  It looks like the book-scanning clash isnt nearly over, however, since some powerful groups still have qualms about Googles proposed resolution. Google ...
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• Gov. Pat Quinn Backs Proposal To House Gitmo Detainees In Illinois State Prison

  
  The Public Record — Authority: 501
  Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn is backing a proposal to sell one of the state’s prison to the federal government to house Guantanamo Bay detainees. He says it would help create about 3,000 jobs, but critics are opposed due to safety concerns.
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• Feds focus on 7 doctors in settlement with McAllen area health system[S. Texas]

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 166
  McALLEN — There were no doctors, no patients or even a floor at a medical office on the city’s south side, but to Hidalgo County’s largest hospital system it was reputedly worth lease payments of $8,000 a month. The lease allegedly was a sham contract given to disguise an improper kickback to Eugenio Galindo, a ...
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• Life In Prison For 51 Cannabis Plants?

  
  NORML Blog — Authority: 548
  At a time of heightened national security post-911, a near-depression economy and state government budgets bleeding red coast to coast, what is the moral and economic imperative that compels some in law enforcement to seek lifetime sentences for small-time cannabis growers? Again, cannabis consumers and ...
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• The DOJ subpoenas popular news site for visitors ip addresses, credit card info and more

  
  Corrente — Authority: 623
  CBS : In a case that raises questions about online journalism and privacy rights, the U.S. Department of Justice sent a formal request to an independent news site ordering it to provide details of all reader visits on a certain day. The grand jury subpoena also required the Philadelphia-based Indymedia.us (One of ...
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• What Does Document Censored By Obama Justice Say?

  
  Irregular Times: News Unfit for Print — Authority: 549
  Back, many months ago, when Barack Obama was inaugurated as President, he promised us that he would bring us a new era of government openness. Unfortunately, that’s not how things have turned out. The Obama White House has continued Bush Administration claims that the President is above the law, and has the power ...
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• 9/11 Trials, NY City, Terrorists, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Daniel Pearl decapitation, New York terrorists trial, Obama and Eric Holder, Left wing socialist agenda, Obama supporters, Forum on CIA waterboarding and America, Terrorist training camps

  
  Citizen Wells — Authority: 590
  To: Barack Obama and his cadre of left wing, socialist, anti Americans and Terrorists bent on killing America and Americans. Let Me Make This Perfectly Clear 1. Any attempts to turn the trial in NY City of 9/11 terrorists into a 3 ring circus and a forum on American interogation techniques or ...
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• Big news: AMD-Intel, HP-3Com, Oracle-Sun

  
  Bizmology — Authority: 125
    It’s been a week of big headlines in the technology field. The biggest story was the legal settlement reached between Advanced Micro Devices and Intel . These processor archrivals agreed to wrap up their legal disputes on business practices and patent issues, with Intel paying $1.25 billion to AMD. While ...
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• The Power of The Department of Justices Office of Legal Counsel

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 771
  It is easy to forget that the United States Government and its citizens have distinctly different relationships with the law.  While citizens and corporations look at statutes to see what they are prohibited from doing, governments must look to statutes to see what they are specifically authorized to do .  In ...
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• DOJ Files Discrimination Lawsuit against Apartment Owner in Missouri

  
  Real Estate Investors Daily — Authority: 128
  The Justice Department announced it has filed a lawsuit today in federal court for the Eastern District of Missouri alleging a pattern or practice of violations of the Fair Housing Act by the owner and managers of Forum Manor Apartments, a federally-subsidized apartment complex, for refusing to rent to ...
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• Lawyers Allege Ongoing ‘Dragnet’ Surveillance

  
  The Washington Independent — Authority: 767
  Attorney General Eric Holder (WDCpix) On October 30, the Justice Department for the first time applied its new “state secrets” policy to a case charging the government with breaking the law. Open government advocates hoping for a significant change in the government’s stance toward secrecy in national security ...
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• Feds Prepare to Seize Four Mosques, Office Building, Iranian Ties, Muslim organization, $500 million in assets, Alavi Foundation, Secretly controlled by the Iranian government, Funneled millions to Iran’s state owned Bank Melli

  
  Citizen Wells — Authority: 590
  From Fox News, November 12, 2009. “Feds Prepare to Seize Four Mosques, Office Building Suspected of Iranian Ties” “Federal prosecutors Thursday took steps to seize four U.S. mosques and a Fifth Avenue skyscraper owned by a nonprofit Muslim organization long suspected of being secretly controlled by the Iranian ...
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• Ratner Family Ties: ACORN and Justice Department Plot Thickens

  
  Big Government — Authority: 811
  Following the courageous expose by two young investigative journalists released on the pages of this very blog, there were widespread calls for a U.S. Department of Justice investigation into the criminal enterprise that is ACORN . One would think there would be swift, decisive action from the administration ...
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• Torture Accountability Day of Action

  
  Justice Watch — Authority: 414
  Today, people from across the country are making calls to the Department of Justice . They are asking Attorney General Holder to release the report on the “torture memos” and authorize a full investigation of torture. We’ve already received feedback from supporters who have made calls and we will be posting ...
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• Congressional Leak Spotlights P2P User Act

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 499
  By Robert Siciliano, Identity Theft Expert Congress is still considering the Informed P2P User Act, a law that would supposedly make it safer to use peer-to-peer file sharing software, an effort that is similar to banning mosquitoes from sucking blood. It just isn’t happening. The only foolproof way ...
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• Somali recruiter arrested, November 11, 2009, Netherlands arrest, From Minneapolis Minnesota, Financing the recruitment of Somali men from Minnesota, Terrorists in Somalia

  
  Citizen Wells — Authority: 590
  From the Minneapolis,  St Paul Star Tribune, November 11, 2009. “Alleged Somali recruiter arrested, linked to Minnesota” “A 43-year-old Somali man from Minneapolis was arrested this week in the Netherlands for allegedly financing the recruitment of up to 20 young Somali men from Minnesota to train and fight ...
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• European Commission Objects to Oracle’s Acquisition of Sun

  
  System News for Sun Users - The Blog — Authority: 136
  Oracle to “Vigorously Oppose” the Ruling The European Commission issued a Statement of Objections on November 9th opposing Sun’s acquisition by Oracle. According to a Securities and Exchange Commission filing from Sun, the open-source MySQL database software is the sole issue of concern in the matter. In ...
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• Janet Napolitano, Homeland Security Secretary, Fort Hood comments, Napolitano asked to resign, First priority quell anti Islam sentiments, MoveAmericaForward.org, War veterans terrorists, Domestic conservative terrorists, Tea parties

  
  Citizen Wells — Authority: 590
  From The Examiner, November 11, 2009. “Secretary Napolitano told to step down following Fort Hood comments” “Following the tragic mass-murder of Americans at the Fort Hood, Texas military installation at the hands of a suspected radical Jihadist, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano first ...
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