Bravest, Finest cite work at WTC and Fresh Kills
By MICHELLE McPHEE DAILY NEWS POLICE BUREAU CHIEF
In a dramatic sign of escalating health problems stemming from 9/11, more than 1,700 cops and firefighters have filed lawsuits against the city claiming they were sickened by work at Ground Zero or the Fresh Kills landfill.
To handle the unprecedented legal overload, the city’s Law Department set up a special division to tackle 9/11 claims and appointed attorney Kenneth Becker as chief (...)
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9/11 - 1700 Sue over illness.
6 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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THE MYTH OF SEPARATION
3 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
3 commentsTHE MYTH OF SEPARATION
By M. KATO
The Supreme Court is now hearing arguments for and against the display of the Judeo-Christian Ten Commandments on government property involving two cases originating from Kentucky and Texas. It is anyone’s guess how the Supremes will rule even though proponents of a ban on such displays claim that such displays are in clear violation of the Establishment Clause in the First Amendment of the United (...) -
ACLU and Human Rights First Sue Defense Secretary Rumsfeld Over U.S. Torture Policies
3 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
7 commentsWASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld bears direct responsibility for the torture and abuse of detainees in U.S. military custody, the American Civil Liberties Union and Human Rights First charged today in the first federal court lawsuit to name a top U.S. official in the ongoing torture scandal in Iraq and Afghanistan that has tarnished America’s reputation.
The lawsuit was filed in federal court in Illinois on behalf of eight men who were subject to torture and abuse at the (...) -
FBI Whistleblower Sibel Edmonds to Testify Before Congress for First Time Wednesday
2 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
Edmonds Set to Speak at House Hearing on Excessive Classification
A release from the ACLU:
March 1, 2005
WASHINGTON - Sibel Edmonds, who was fired after exposing national security concerns at the FBI, will testify before Congress for the first time Wednesday.
Edmonds, a former Middle Eastern language specialist for the FBI, will share her story with members of the House Committee on Government Reform’s Subcommittee on National Security, Emerging Threats and International Relations. (...) -
Jeff Gannon, Johnny Gosch, Hunter Thompson, and Bohemian Grove snuff porn
2 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
5 commentsJeff Gannon, Johnny Gosch, Hunter Thompson, and Bohemian Grove snuff porn Friday, February 25, 2005 I’ve been watching this story percolate since the weekend, and with Thursday’s return of "Jeff Gannon" to the blogosphere with a column entitled "Fear and Loathing in the Press Room" really bringing it all full circle, several questions are begged here.
As the Jeff Gannon story progressed and turned into a Bush White House homosexual prostitution scandal, Internet (...) -
Custer Battles: Justice Dept. won’t Intervene to Reclaim Millions From Military Contractor in Iraq
2 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
A U.S. military contractor in Iraq is at the center of a controversy over how American-forces disbursed and accounted for hundreds of millions of dollars in Iraq.
The firm, Custer Battles is being charged in a lawsuit of defrauding the Coalition Provisional Authority of tens of millions of dollars during work in Iraq, which included securing Baghdad International Airport.
Two former employees sued the company last year under the False Claims Act, seeking to recover damages on behalf of (...) -
White House Must Charge Or Free Suspect
1 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
1 commentby Mark Sherman WASHINGTON - A federal judge ordered the Bush administration Monday to either charge terrorism suspect Jose Padilla with a crime or release him after more than 2 1/2 years in custody.
U.S. District Judge Henry Floyd in Spartanburg, S.C., said the government can not hold Padilla indefinitely as an "enemy combatant," a designation President Bush gave him in 2002.
"The court finds that the president has no power, neither express nor implied, neither constitutional nor (...) -
It’s Called Torture
1 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
1 commentby Bob Herbert As a nation, does the United States have a conscience? Or is anything and everything O.K. in post-9/11 America? If torture and the denial of due process are O.K., why not murder? When the government can just make people vanish - which it can, and which it does - where is the line that we, as a nation, dare not cross?
When I interviewed Maher Arar in Ottawa last week, it seemed clear that however thoughtful his comments, I was talking with the frightened, shaky successor (...) -
Election Fraud Exposed in Criminal Complaint Filed in Ohio
25 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
9 commentsElection Fraud by Licking County Officials Exposed in Criminal Complaint Filed by Paul D. Harmon
We have learned that Paul D. Harmon, an independent candidate for Domestic Relations Court Judge in Licking County, Ohio, filed a criminal complaint against Licking County election officials on February 18th.
The complaint, based on events in a Licking County race in which there were more "no votes" than votes cast for any candidate, accuses the officials of fraud involving "votomatic" (...) -
SOLDIERS GUILTY OF "BRUTAL AND REVOLTING" IRAQI ABUSE
25 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
2 commentsA MILITARY court today found two British soldiers guilty of abusing Iraqi prisoners in acts depicted in a series of sickening photographs.
The behaviour of Mark Cooley and Daniel Kenyon and two other soldiers was described as "brutal", "cruel" and "revolting" by the military judge.
And he added that the shocking pictures, used as evidence in the trial, had "undoubtedly tarnished the international reputation of the British Army and to some extent the British nation too".
A panel of (...)