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  • Airport rules changed after Ron Paul aide detained -...

    Rated Nov 25 • 3 reviews • terrorism, privacy, civil liberties • washingtontimes.com

    From the page: He said screeners get a narrow exception to the Fourth Amendment, which prohibits unreasonable searches, strictly to keep weapons and explosives off planes, not to help police enforce other laws.

  • Kennedy Assassination Anniversary - Extremism and...

    Rated Nov 24 • 2 reviews • american history, john f kennedy • esquire.com

    From the page: Mr. President, the easy thing and what is desperately trying to be done [is] to convince a stunned nation and world that Mr. Kennedy's murder was the work of some deranged crackpot, and while the trigger was pulled by such a one, perhaps the atmosphere that made it inevitable was the hatred of the people (I don't mean every one of them but a big majority) who wanted Mr. Kennedy and any one connected with him out of the White House. A week ago this might have sounded ridiculous but subsequent events lend it credence, I believe. There is a virus of disrespect and hate spreading here very rapidly. And unless one lives right here with it, day in and day out, it is unbelievable how quickly and subtly it infects reasonably intelligent persons.

  • Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com

    Rated Nov 24 • 1 review • terrorism • salon.com

    From the page: "To see how false this claim is, all anyone ever had to do was look at the Classified Information Procedures Act, a short and crystal clear 1980 law that not only permits, but requires, federal courts to undertake extreme measures to ensure the concealment of classified information, even including concealment from the defendant himself."

  • Rights body warns Cruel Britannia

    Rated Nov 24 • 1 review • torture • presstv.ir

    From the page: "Revelations by Pakistani officials in a five-year study by the Human Rights Watch (HRW) organization suggests that the UK intelligence was "complicit" in the torture of its own citizens held in Pakistan. "

  • Reborn Coma Man's Words May Be Bogus | Wired Science |...

    Rated Nov 24 • 2 reviews • science • wired.com

    From the page: Rom Houben's account of his ordeal, repeated in scores of news stories since appearing Saturday in Der Spiegel, appears to be delivered with assistance from an aide who helps guide his finger to letters on a flat computer keyboard. Called "facilitated communication," that technique has been widely discredited, and is not considered scientifically valid.

  • Census Worker’s Hanging Death Called Suicide - NYTimes.com

    Rated Nov 24 • 1 review • crime, census • nytimes.com

    From the page: "The police also found no evidence of a struggle, and there was only Mr. Sparkman's DNA on the rag in his mouth and near his body."

  • CIA's Lost Magic Manual Resurfaces | Danger Room | Wired.com

    Rated Nov 24 • 2 reviews • cia, magic • wired.com

    From the page: At the height of the Cold War, the Central Intelligence Agency paid $3,000 to renowned magician John Mulholland to write a manual on misdirection, concealment, and stagecraft. All known copies of the document --and a related paper, on conveying hidden signals -- were believed to be destroyed in 1973. But recently, the manuals resurfaced, and have now been published as "The Official CIA Manual of Trickery and Deception." Topics include working a clandestine partner, slipping a pill into the drink of the unsuspecting, and "surreptitious removal of objects by women."

  • Matt Taibbi - Taibblog - Yes, Sarah, There is a Media...

    Rated Nov 24 • 4 reviews • politics, journalism, sarah palin • trueslant.com

    From the page: What the people who are flipping out about the treatment of Palin should be asking themselves is what it means when it's not just jerks like us but everybody piling on against Palin. For those of you who can't connect the dots, I'll tell you what it means. It means she's been cut loose. It means that all five of the families have given the okay to this hit job, including even the mainstream Republican leaders. You teabaggers are in the process of being marginalized by your own ostensible party leaders in exactly the same way the anti-war crowd was abandoned by the Democratic party elders in the earlier part of this decade. Like the antiwar left, you have been deemed a threat to your own party's "winnability."

  • War surtax: Pay as you fight - David Rogers - POLITICO.com

    Rated Nov 24 • 2 reviews • military, taxes • politico.com

    From the page: Dubbed the "Share the Sacrifice Act," the six-page bill exempts anyone who has served in Iraq or Afghanistan since the 2001 terrorist attacks as well as families who have lost an immediate relative in the fighting. But middle-class households earning between $30,000 and $150,000 would be asked to pay 1% on top of their tax liability today -- a more sweeping approach than many Democrats have been willing to embrace.

  • Blackwater's Secret War in Pakistan

    Rated Nov 24 • 7 reviews • military, blackwater, terrorism, middle east, pakistan • thenation.com

    From the page: The previously unreported program, the military intelligence source said, is distinct from the CIA assassination program that the agency's director, Leon Panetta, announced he had canceled in June 2009. "This is a parallel operation to the CIA," said the source. "They are two separate beasts." The program puts Blackwater at the epicenter of a US military operation within the borders of a nation against which the United States has not declared war--knowledge that could further strain the already tense relations between the United States and Pakistan. In 2006, the United States and Pakistan struck a deal that authorized JSOC to enter Pakistan to hunt Osama bin Laden with the understanding that Pakistan would deny it had given permission. Officially, the United States is not supposed to have any active military operations in the country.