Politics

White House Repeats Pentagon Lies About Guantanamo “Recidivists”

White House Repeats Pentagon Lies About Guantanamo “Recidivists” »

By Andy Worthington - The Public Record

What is to be done about the idiocy that has spread, like a poisonous but imperceptible gas, from the Pentagon to Congress, and is now wafting through the White House, deranging all it touches? As it travels, this dismal infection transforms statistical impossibilities into magic numbers, which appear, to the uninformed observer, to confirm the most shameless lies of former Vice President Dick Cheney: that Guantánamo was teeming with hardcore terrorists, who couldn’t wait to...

February 8 2010 / No comment / Read More »

Law

Mumia Abu-Jamal’s Case Stuck in Legal Limbo »

By Dave Lindorff - The Public Record

Mumia Abu-Jamal’s Case Stuck in Legal Limbo

The recent decision by the US Supreme Court to send convicted police killer Mumia Abu-Jamal’s case back down to the Third Circuit Court of...

Feb 8 2010 / No comment / Read More »

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We Need Government Funded Media »

By David Swanson - The Public Record

We Need Government Funded Media

What it would have cost us to publicly fund independent media that would have prevented the invasion of Iraq wouldn't amount, in a year,...

Feb 8 2010 / No comment / Read More »

Law

British Firm Pleads Guilty In US Court To Illegal Sale Of Boeing 747 To Iran »

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British Firm Pleads Guilty In US Court To Illegal Sale Of Boeing 747 To Iran

Balli Aviation Ltd., a subsidiary of the United Kingdom-based Balli Group PLC, pleaded guilty today in the U.S. District Court for the District of...

Feb 5 2010 / 1 comment / Read More »

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Commentary

Failure: Our Broken Government »

By Dave Lindorff - The Public Record

Failure: Our Broken Government

There were two points in President Obama’s State of the Union address that provoked resounding and universal applause in the chamber from the assembled senators and representatives of both parties. One point was when the president said he wanted to start his job-creation program “in...

Feb 5 2010 / 4 comments / Read More »

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Top 10 Problems With America Assassinating Americans »

By David Swanson - The Public Record

Top 10 Problems With America Assassinating Americans

The director of U.S. national intelligence told the House Intelligence Committee the government has the right to kill Americans abroad. Here are 10 problems with this: 1. Acts that are crimes under national and international law don't cease to be crimes because you cross a...

Feb 4 2010 / 2 comments / Read More »

Law

Ex-UBS Client Pleads Guilty to Hiding $10 Million in Offshore Bank Accounts »

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Ex-UBS Client Pleads Guilty to Hiding $10 Million in Offshore Bank Accounts

Jack Barouh of Golden Beach, Fla., pleaded guilty today to filing a false tax return, the Justice Department and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced. Sentencing has been set for April 16, 2010, before U.S. District Judge Adalberto Jordan in Miami. The defendant remains free on...

Feb 4 2010 / No comment / Read More »

World

Switzerland Saves Obama By Agreeing To Take Two Guantanamo Uighurs »

By Andy Worthington - The Public Record

Switzerland Saves Obama By Agreeing To Take Two Guantanamo Uighurs

Congratulations to the Swiss Canton of Jura, which recently accepted the asylum claims of two Uighur prisoners at Guantánamo, and to the Swiss federal government for agreeing to accept Jura’s decision on Wednesday. The two men in question — Arkin Mahmud, 45, and his brother...

Feb 4 2010 / No comment / Read More »

Nation

Government Labor Statistics: Lies and Damned Lies »

By Dave Lindorff - The Public Record

Government Labor Statistics: Lies and Damned Lies

For months, the various government departments dealing with things economic--Treasury, Commerce, Labor and of course the Council of Economic Advisers and the Federal Reserve, have been issuing soothing words that the nation’s economy is headed back up from the Great Recession that allegedly began in...

Feb 4 2010 / 3 comments / Read More »

Politics

Bipartisan Group Of Lawamkers Introduce Bill To Block 9/11 Trial »

By Joshua Durkin and Ray Storez - The Public Record

Bipartisan Group Of Lawamkers Introduce Bill To Block 9/11 Trial

A bipartisan group of lawmakers introduced legislation Tuesday to prohibit the Department of Justice from prosecuting self-professed 9/11 mastermind and four other co-conspirators in federal court. The bill, sponsored by Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), would restrict the Justice Department from using funds to pay for...

Feb 4 2010 / No comment / Read More »

Law

Gitmo Judge Urged to Recuse Himself After ProPublica Interview »

By ProPublica - The Public Record

Gitmo Judge Urged to Recuse Himself After ProPublica Interview

A federal judge who spoke at length with ProPublica about his experience working through about a dozen constitutional challenges mounted by Guantanamo prisoners is being asked by a detainee’s lawyer to remove himself from a pending case based on quoted portions of his interviews. ...

Feb 2 2010 / No comment / Read More »
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