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Secret Court Says F.B.I. Aides Misled Judges in 75 Cases
Sailors Sprayed With Nerve Gas in Cold War Test, Pentagon Says: "...Pentagon documents made public today showed that six tests were carried out in the Pacific Ocean from 1964 to 1968. In the experiments, nerve or chemical agents were sprayed on a variety of ships and their crews..."
Bush energy policy critic ousted as head of climate change panel: "...In the memo last February, ExxonMobil asked the White House's council on environmental quality to "restructure US attendance at IPCC meetings..."
Environmentalists Had 48 Hours to Comment to Energy Dept.: "...The e-mail message was sent at 12:49 p.m. on Wednesday, March 21, 2001. "Need by Friday noon," Ms. Andersen wrote to Mr. Karpoff..."
Executive Order Followed Energy Industry Recommendation, Documents Show: "...Bush signed an executive order last year that closely resembles a written recommendation given to the administration two months earlier by the American Gas Association..."
When the U.S. declared war in 1917: "...WANTS LIBERAL CREDITS And Universal Service, for "the World Must Be made Safe for Democracy."..."
Pentagon Seeks Exemption From Environmental Laws: "...the Pentagon is seeking a Congressional exemption from an array of measures that have protected endangered species and their habitats for years..."
Pentagon Funds High-Tech University Help: "...the Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies will conduct basic research aimed at developing tiny devices for everything from bulletproof uniforms to camouflage..."
Documents Reveal Energy Head Met No Environmentalists: "...documents were released late Monday to meet a court-imposed deadline in lawsuits to lift the cloak covering the internal working of Bush's energy policy task force chaired by Vice President Dick Cheney..."
PepperBall device pops with a punch: "...It looks like a Space Age squirt gun with a gumball machine on top, but it gives cops an incapacitating triple whammy..."
The First Six Months of George W. Bush: "...know what your President is doing. Here is a list of his work in his first six months..."
Denver police accused of keeping illegal files on peaceful protest groups: "...The American Civil Liberties Union has accused the Denver Police Department of keeping illegal files on peaceful protest groups..."
Intricate Screening of Fliers In Works: "...authorities and technology companies will soon begin testing a vast air security screening system designed to instantly pull together every passenger's travel history and living arrangements, plus a wealth of other personal and demographic information..."
"Black Hawk Down" - the Real Story: "...how trapped United States troops indiscriminately fired on crowds of Somalis in Mogadishu in 1993, killing more than 1,000 - five times the 'official' number..."
New Enron scandal link to Bush: "...Enron was the largest contributor to Mr Bush's election campaign, donating £1.2m. Mr Lay, a close friend of the president, has been a contributor to both parties but is tied mainly to Republicans and the Bushes..."
California Group Launches Campaign Against Illegal Immigration: "...a member of the California Coalition for Immigration Reform, told the daily that Mexican immigrants want "to overthrow our culture, our way of life." "Their objectives are no different than Osama bin Laden's..."
Parents Claim Officer Killed Their Son at Columbine: "...a growing list of inconsistencies among accounts of the shootings had led them to suspect that their son had been killed not by the rampaging teenagers but by a police officer..."
Applied Digital pushes microchip to plant in foreigners for tracking: "...Foreigners who pass through customs or immigration could be injected with the chip, allowing officials to monitor their activities better..."
As Welfare Comes to an End, So Do the Jobs: "...from New Hampshire to Hawaii, the first welfare families are reaching the five-year federal limit just as the economy slumps. But New York City has by far the largest number of people working for their benefits, and nowhere else are so many of them reaching the cutoff at the same time..."
U.S. Scuttles Germ War Conference: "...the Bush administration fears further negotiations on an international instrument to curb bioweapons that includes possible on-site challenge investigations..."
Spy Kids: "...Tom Crispell, a spokesman for the CIA, which has received 30,000 rèsumès since September 11, ten times more than normal, says the agency is also seeking language expertise...."
Alabama Retains Disclaimer on Evolution: "...Alabama is maintaining its distinction as the only state where biology textbooks include a sticker warning students that evolution is a "controversial theory" that they should question..."
Bush Team Reversing Environmental Policies: "...allow road-building in national forests, reverse the phaseout of snowmobiles in national parks, make it easier for mining companies to dig for gold, copper and zinc on public lands, ease energy-saving standards for air-conditioners..."
Jim Crow on Fraternity Row: "...Photographs from Delta Sigma Phi's party showed fraternity members in blackface and KKK costumes. Some even went so far as to simulate the lynching of a member in blackface..."
250 Abortion Clinics Get Anthrax Threat Letters: "...threats by mail are nothing new for groups like Planned Parenthood Federation of America, the Feminist Majority Foundation and the National Abortion Federation, where the threat of anthrax contamination has been a concern since 1998..."
Anthrax preparation indicates home-grown origin: "...Not only are the bacteria genetically close to the strain the US used in its own anthrax weapons in the 1960s, but New Scientist can reveal that the spores also seem to have been prepared according to the secret US "weaponisation" recipe..."
Anthrax bacteria likely to be US military strain: "...The bacteria used for the anthrax attacks in the US is either the strain the US itself used to make anthrax weapons in the 1960s, or close to it. It is not a strain that Iraq, or the former Soviet Union, mass-produced for weapons..."
FBI To Require ISPs To Reconfigure E-mail Systems: "...The move, to be completed over the next two months, would cause ISPs to act as phone companies do to comply with a 1994 digital-wiretapping law..."
Microwave beam weapon to disperse crowds: "...ADT uses a 2-metre dish to create a narrow beam of microwaves that can be scanned across a crowd or even aimed at individuals. AFRL is using infrared photography to analyse the heating effect on the volunteers' bodies..."
Former Chicago Detective Admits Role in Theft Ring: "...The former chief of detectives for the Chicago Police Department pleaded guilty on Thursday to running a theft ring..."
Creation theory TV program sparks debate at Southern Illinois University: "...WSIU-TV aired six program specials that attempted to conquer touchy topics such as the creation of earth, the evolution of man and the Big Bang Theory, with religion..."
Civil libertarians say military doesn't need police powers: "...The line between the armed forces and law enforcement has been blurred in recent years..."
Bush Suggests Sept. 11 Attacks Were Aimed at World Markets: "..."Terrorists want to turn the openness of the global economy against itself," he said today during a speech to chief executives, who hold their own meetings in parallel with those of the government leaders. "We must not let them."..."
Patriots attack media amid cries of treason: "...The attack on Maher, she said, could be a sign of what could lie in store: "A lot of people are saying it is the beginning of a very slippery slope."..."
After the Horror, Radio Stations Pull Some Songs: "...Clear Channel Communications, the Texas-based company that owns about 1,170 radio stations nationwide, has circulated a list of 150 songs and asked its stations to avoid playing them..."
All of a Sudden, A Nation of Checkpoints: "..."The bottom line," he said, "is people need to understand you can no longer come and go as you please."..."
ISPs aid FBI in terrorist search: "..."We are able to provide them with information on an immediate basis," he said, stressing that such an ability made Carnivore unnecessary...."
Anti-Attack Feds Push Carnivore: "...Just hours after three airplanes smashed into the buildings in what some U.S. legislators have dubbed a second Pearl Harbor, FBI agents began to visit Web-based, e-mail firms and network providers, according to engineers..."
Next to Old Rec Hall, a 'Germ-Making Plant': "...In a nondescript mustard-colored building that was once a military recreation hall and barbershop, the Pentagon has built a germ factory that could make enough lethal microbes to wipe out entire cities..."
Testimony Doubted in Oklahoma Execution: "...a police department memo obtained by The Associated Press says some of the scientific evidence she swore to does not exist..."
Big Borders bookshop is watching you: "...The company is to become the first retailer in the world to introduce a controversial security scheme, normally used to trap football hooligans, paedophiles and terrorists, to photograph customers as they enter stores..."
Carnivore Might Target Wireless Text: "...authorities may soon expand the use of a controversial FBI monitoring system to capture e-mail and other text messages sent through wireless telephone carriers, as well as messages from their Internet service..."
Bush Aide Accused of Having a Talk Canceled: "...the conference co-chairman who invited him, told him on Aug. 8 that Mr. James was concerned that Mr. Ross might criticize the Heritage Foundation. He said Mr. James's boss, Ms. Chao, and Mr. James's wife, Kay James, head of the Office of Personnel Management, had worked at Heritage before joining the Bush administration..."
Antimissile Protesters Face Felony Charges: "...A federal grand jury has charged 15 Greenpeace activists and two foreign journalists arrested in a protest of the Star Wars program last month with felonies in the disruption of the Pentagon's antimissile defense test..."
Face-Scanning Camera Misidentifies Man: "...MillironÕs photograph was captured by the face-recognizing FaceIt program in June while he was on a lunch break in Ybor City..."
Dancing -- or Yawning -- on the Grave of Carlo Giuliani: "...Time magazine published a requiem of sorts -- explaining that the 23-year-old Italian protester pretty much got what he deserved..."
FBI case highlights high-tech spying: "...By bugging a keyboard or using special software, FBI agents can remotely capture a computer user's every keystroke..."
Rocky Mountain resort site of next G8 summit: "...If the fence was just a little bit stronger, there would have been no problem," Mr. Chrétien said Friday..."
Police Raid Protesters' Headquarters: "...Sixty-one of those arrested were taken to hospitals. Protesters said dozens were beaten during the raid..."
G8 Protesters Mourn Victim in New Show of Rage: "...anti-capitalist protesters torched cars and shops, smashed windows and hurled rocks at Italian police, who responded with tear gas..."
Police Fire Tear Gas at Genoa Protesters: "...tens of thousands of marchers flooded the streets near an international summit here. Many in the crowd shouted "Assassins, assassins!"..."
Police and Protesters Clash as Economic Summit Opens: "...One protester was killed, shot apparently by police, and dozens of others injured in bloody demonstrations against the policies being pursued by presidents and prime ministers inside the walls of a nearby palace..."
Border Patrol Using Pepper Ball Launchers Tested in Seattle Protests: "...The launchers are "dead-on accurate" from about 30 feet and have a range of about 100 feet, Jaques said. The rubber balls they fire are designed to break open on impact..."
Bush Plan Allows States to Give 'Unborn Child' Medical Coverage: "...The Bush administration has drafted a new policy that would allow states to define "an unborn child" as a person eligible for medical coverage under the Children's Health Insurance Program..."
Protesters Rally at Economic Summit: "...Hundreds of activists tried to break through walls of police as they marched on the meeting hall where the European Economic Summit was beginning..."
As Welfare Deadline Looms, Answers Don't Seem So Easy: "...Your time limits for cash assistance will be expiring this year," one version says, referring to the five-year lifetime limit on federal cash aid. "We have scheduled an appointment for you to be seen so you can discuss how you plan to manage your household expenses..."
Protesters Continue to Battle Police at E.U. Summit: "...Hurling rocks and fire crackers, demonstrators forced back police outnumbered about 10 to one..."
Protesters, Police Clash at Summit: "...at least 9,000 protesters have converged and more were expected for rallies against globalization and Bush's environmental policy, among other things, during the three days of meetings..."
Survey Shows Workplace Monitoring Continues to Rise: "...nearly eighty percent of all major U.S. companies carry out some form of employee monitoring, a dramatic increase from thirty-five percent in 1997..."
Resistant Nun Fights Religious Disorder: "...Gramick, a member of the Baltimore-based School Sisters of Notre Dame, has refused to obey the order to stop talking about homosexuality and the church..."
FBI attacks IndyMedia: "...This kind of fishing expedition is another in a long line of overbroad and onerous attempts to chill political speech and activism..."
Abortion foes claim win in House: "...the House voted 252-172 to pass the bill, which defines a fetus as a human being..."
Artwork Agitation Mural unveiled, then owner says it must be erased: "...Waldroup's mural, "The American Dream," near the intersection of Westchester and Wheeler avenues, depicts four police officers in Ku Klux Klan hoods as well as the Statue of Liberty holding a gun in place of her torch..."
FBI's E-Mail Surveillance Getting Boost Policy: "..."It's quite clear that it's a critical tool, and the FBI has to stay on top of changing technology," said one official familiar with the report, who asked not to be identified..."
Group Calls Drug Study Unethical: "...Internal Food and Drug Administration documents say comparing Surfaxin to a placebo in U.S. babies with RDS would be unethical, but that the agency is considering whether to approve a placebo-controlled study in parts of Mexico, Bolivia, Peru and Ecuador..."
Voice of America Will Retool for Arab World: "...VOA would broadcast around the clock throughout the Arab world, targeting much of its programming to the under-30 crowd that is most likely to blame the United States for the region's ills..."
Court Challenge to Library Internet Censorship Law: "...libraries must now install "blocking technology measures" to prevent access to material that is "obscene, child pornography," or "harmful to minors," or forfeit much-needed federal funds..."
Five Years in Prison for Talking on a Cell Phone: "...The jury found Sorensen guilty of only a misdemeanor -- chatting on a cell phone, a.k.a. "criminal mischief" -- but the prosecuting attorney, a man accustomed to trying murderers, claimed victory. The win sends protestors "a strong message," he said..."
Law Requires Public Housing Tenants to Perform Service: "...Under a federal law being phased in this year, tens of thousands of public housing residents in New York City will be required to do eight hours of unpaid community service or training every month or face possible eviction..."
Man guilty of offering reward for death of abortion provider: "...Nicholas Morency, 30, of Villas, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Joseph E. Irenas to threatening abortion providers and to downloading numerous sexually explicit and sexually violent images of children..."
Pentagon Unveils Plans for a New Crowd-Dispersal Weapon: "...the weapon would fire bursts of electromagnetic energy capable of causing burning sensations on the skin of people standing as far as 700 yards away..."
Secret Service Investigates Student: "...The editorial was clearly a form of satire and political hyperbole in response to Bush's well-publicized devotion to Christianity..."
DCS1000: The Device Formerly Known as Carnivore: "...In an apparent effort to minimize the damage from one of its biggest recent public relations blunders, the Federal Bureau of Investigation has given the Carnivore Internet surveillance system a new name..."
Feds use biometrics against Super Bowl fans: "...fans were secretly treated to a mass, biometric scan in which video cameras tied to a temporary law-enforcement command centre digitised their faces and compared them against photographic lists of known malefactors..."
Innocent Man Goes Free 33 Years After Conviction: "...He was effectively framed by a hit man cooperating with prosecutors and left to languish by Federal Bureau of Investigation agents who apparently knew he was innocent but never spoke out...."
John Ashcroft's Speech at Bob Jones University: "...Unique among the nations, America recognized the source of our character as being Godly and eternal, not being civic and temporal. And because we have understood that our source is eternal, America has been different. We have no king but Jesus..."
F.B.I. Enlists Help Against Cybercrime: "...thanks to expanded reporting from businesses, FBI computer intrusion investigations had grown from 450 to 1,200 over the past three years..."
FTC mulls wireless privacy: "...Under rules adopted by the Federal Communications Commission, wireless carriers will begin selling phones with the tracking technology by December, 2001..."
Federal Judge Upholds Giuliani's Policy on Arresting the Homeless: "...A federal judge has upheld a Giuliani administration policy that allows police officers to arrest homeless people for sleeping in cardboard boxes in public..."
After Abortion Victory, Doctor's Troubles Persist: "...They figured if they couldn't make abortion illegal through the courts, they would run me out of town," he said. "It's just a fight that's worth fighting is how I put it...."
Carhart's Daughter, Others Forced Out: "...The house, which was converted into three apartments, and neighboring abortion clinic are part of a property dispute pitting Carhart against Bert Murphy Ltd., a business partnership of abortion opponents..."
IRS Gains Access to Overseas Credit Card Accounts: "...A federal judge on October 30 granted the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) access to thousands of MasterCard and American Express credit card accounts held by U.S. taxpayers in several offshore banking havens..."
City Block Puts Its Thumbs to Work as Crime Busters: "...From the top of a nearby building, a loudspeaker would proclaim: "Intruder on the block! Call the police!"..."
40 States Forfeit Health Care Funds for Poor Children: "...Forty states will soon lose hundreds of millions of dollars of federal money that was supposed to provide health insurance to children in low-income families..."
Squeezing Blood From A Stone: "...US Policy, anti-Arab Racism and Israeli Arrogance May Be Greatest Obstacles to Peace..."
Carnivore review: A 'stacked deck?': "...digital detective work revealed the names of the reviewers to be former White House insiders, including past members of the National Security Agency and former employees and consultants to the Departments of Defense, Justice, and Treasury..."
Bush's 'Jesus Day': "...Four months ago in Texas, Gov. George W. Bush signed a proclamation declaring June 10 to be Jesus Day, and urging all Texans to "follow Christ's example..."
Released R2K Prisoners Hold Press Conference: "...They described repeated instances of police brutality and neglect during their time in custody. The extraordinary bails (as high as $1 million) being levied against protesters also came under fire..."
No Break for Protesters, Street Vows: "...390 protesters arrested during the four-day Republican National Convention will not get off easy, but will be fully prosecuted, Mayor Street said yesterday..."
More Carnivore Revalations: "...The system has been installed at ISPs 25 times, including in 16 cases this year - six involving criminal investigations and 10 involving national security investigations..."
EarthLink Will Do FBI's Surveillances Itself: "...it had installed the snooping software for the FBI at a data center in Pasadena, Calif., earlier this year..."
Clinic Owner Indicted For Extortion: "...The indictment calls statements Spielvogel made against Cretul in sworn affidavits "false, fictitious and libelous," and calls the entire civil suit "a scheme to extort the payment of money from Marion County."..."
New FBI Email Surveillance System: "...unlike the operation of a traditional a pen register, trap and trace device, or wiretap of a conventional phone line, Carnivore gives the FBI access to all traffic over the ISP's network, not just the communications to or from a particular target..."
Latino Workers Shot, Beaten By Group Of Men: "...A nursery worker said he feared he would be killed as he was hunted and taunted by a carload of young white men who attacked him and three other Latinos..."
Horrific Dragging Death of Mexican Migrant: "...the undocumented worker was beaten about the head and dragged on his face along the roadway..."
Texas Lawyer's Death Row Record a Concern: "...Mr. Mock, who had only three years of legal experience when he took on Mr. Graham's defense, acknowledged in an interview that he did almost no investigation of the case..."
Fear Of A Black Jury: "...You do not want smart people. I wish you could ask everyone's I.Q.; if you could know their I.Q. you could pick a great jury. All the time..."
Justice in Texas -- Two pictures tell the truth about Gary Graham: "...Responsible citizens, including death penalty advocates, should shudder at the thought of an execution based solely on a two-second view of a stranger's face in the dark..."
The Shame of the Nation: A Savagely Unequal School System: "...The consequences of apartheid education are not always easily discerned during the early years of school..."
Electronic Surveillance Up Again in 1999: "...The number of court-authorized wiretaps for criminal investigations rose again in 1999, continuing a 20-year trend of increased surveillance..."
Arizona Vigilantes Shed More Mexican Blood at the Border: "...ranchers on horseback and armed with high power hunting rifles shot and critically wounded an undocumented Mexican worker attempting to cross the border near Sasabe, Arizona..."
Dark Humor Brings A Hospitalization Order: "...He was surrounded by police officers, who put him in an ambulance, which drove him to Bellevue Hospital, where the doctors took away his shoelaces as a precaution against suicide..."
MI5 Builds New Centre to Read E-Mail: "...The government is to require internet service providers, such as Freeserve and AOL, to have "hardwire" links to the new computer facility so that messages can be traced across the internet..."
CIA debuts children's site: "...If you worked in the Directorate of Operations, you would like to travel and have a great curiosity about the world and its different cultures," reads the text in the People section..."
5.9 Million Americans Under Correctional Supervision: "...The total represents an increase of more than 163,000 people in the past year..."
Expert calls 106 bullet wounds overkill: "...At least 55 of the wounds, fired in a fusillade that included rounds from 9 mm pistols, shotguns and at least one AR-15 assault rifle, were serious enough to be fatal..."
Proposed Brit law would detain mental patients: "...a new indeterminate sentence for people judged to be a danger and a special institution to hold them -- even if they haven't been convicted of any crime..."
New York Court Okays Warrantless Pen Register Surveillance: "...police may install pen registers -- devices that monitor numbers dialed from a telephone line -- without obtaining a warrant based on probable cause..."
A city finally has to face up to it's shame: "...It was the bloodiest event in U.S. history since the Civil War, surpassing the 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City..."
Mock war, real snafu: "...Residents near the (Oxford, Alabama) airport heard what sounded like machine gun fire, saw the fiery-red flash of explosions, and saw silhouettes of what looked like paratroopers dropping out of the darkened skies..."
Prison labor gives a market face to an old idea -- slavery: "...Corporations ranging from J.C. Penny and Victoria's Secret to IBM and Toys R Us utilize prison labor to cut costs and increase profit margins..."
Careful, they might hear you: "...a network of giant, highly automated tracking stations that illicitly pick up commercial satellite communications and examine every fax, telex, e-mail, phone call, or computer data message that the satellites carry..."
Civil Rights Cases Rarely Prosecuted, Justice Dept. Records Show: "...In 96 percent of the roughly 2,000 civil rights criminal cases referred each year to U.S. attorneys by the FBI or other agencies, federal prosecutors take no action..."
US Admits Sudan Bombing Mistake: "...The widespread view outside the US was that the White House had insufficient evidence for the attack..."
Poison Cloud Engulfs Belgrade: "...An ecological disaster was unfolding yesterday after Nato bombed a combined petrochemicals, fertiliser and refinery complex on the banks of the Danube..."
New Report Finds One Million Americans Incarcerated for Non-Violent Offenses: "...According to the report, racial disparities in who gets incarcerated continues to grow while female prisoners continue to grow at the fastest rate...."
CIA's Gottlieb Ran LSD Mind Control Testing: "...Gottlieb once mailed a lethal handkerchief to an Iraqi colonel and personally ferried deadly bacteria to the Congo to kill Prime Minister Patrice Lamumba..."
Portland Police Called to Account for Surveillance: "...since 1995, the task force had made weekly downloads of the phone numbers of all callers..."
New Study Gives School Filtering a Failing Grade: "..."The problem of minors accessing sexually explicit material is considerably less than some organizations would have the public and Congress believe."..."
One Nation Under Guard: "...The Marine Corps is making plans to take over U.S. cities during popular insurrections. They're practicing in Oakland next week..."
Livingston Out as Speaker, Drug Warrior Hastert Set to Take Gavel: "...Hastert has shown that while he might not share the high profile of some of his better known "social conservatives," he is certainly no stranger to intruding, from his federal perch, into the private lives of citizens..."
Bible Requires Death By Stoning For 'rebellious' Teenagers: "...Einwechter cites Deuteronomy 21:18-21, which advises parents to take "a stubborn and rebellious son" before city elders to be stoned to death if he will not change his ways..."
Senate Republicans Push a Drug-Free Century Act: "...the usual lopsided emphasis on law enforcement, incarceration, interdiction, and asset forfeiture, at the expense of anything that remotely resembles treatment, prevention, and education..."
N.Y Police Kill Street Peddler - 41 Shots Are Fired At Unarmed Man: "...The officers, who had been riding in an unmarked car, apparently followed Diallo into the vestibule of his apartment house and, for reasons unknown, opened fire..."
FBI Pursues Expanded Surveillance Capabilities: "...Congress enacted the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA) - popularly called the 'digital telephony'law - in 1994. The FBI is now trying to use the law to require special surveillance features in the nation's land-based and wireless telephone systems..."
Green Terror: "...The elaborate, expensive training exercise took place Jan. 14 and involved the San Francisco, Sacramento, and Honolulu offices of the FBI; the U.S. Coast Guard; the U.S. Park Police; and the San Francisco Police Department..."
Wiretap Operation Sheds Light on LAPD Tactics: "...Starting with just his business lines and a handful of customers, the operation spread like kudzu, eventually covering hundreds of phones and thousands of conversations and becoming the largest wiretap operation in the history of Los Angeles County..."
NY State Now Spending More On Prisons Than Higher Education: "...At one time in New York, higher education spending outstripped prison spending by a 2-1 margin. Today we're spending $260 million more on prisons than on education..."
ISP Liability Issues: "...The Ministry of Justice wanted XS4ALL to tap all Internet communications ... to and from a particular user for one month and to pass the information along to police..."
Too Many Children Incarcerated in America: "...200,000 children per year are prosecuted in general criminal courts, with an estimated 7,000 of those children held in jails before trial. Over 11,000 children are currently being housed in prisons and other adult correctional facilities..."
Grand Jury Fails to Indict in Death of Man Shot in Home: "...ballistics tests showed that all 30 shots were fired by the officers. Twelve of those shots hit Navarro, nine from above and behind him..."
Victim's mother says officer wants activists charged: "...The mother of an anti-logging activist killed by a falling tree said Thursday a sheriff's investigator told her he would recommend manslaughter charges against the dead man's fellow protesters..."
US Government Tries to Seize IFCO Bank Records: "...Interreligious Foundation Files Injunction to Block US Treasury Department Effort to Secure IFCO Bank Records..."
Social Concern a Sign of Teen Drug Use?: "...Among the "warning signs" of marijuana use, the book lists "excessive preoccupation with social causes, race relations, environmental issues..."
Report Finds Restraints Can Kill: "...Hundreds of people across the nation have died after being restrained in psychiatric and mental retardation facilities in the past decade..."
Congress Expands Surveillance Authority: "...The bill authorizes the expansion of the use of roving wiretaps, which allow law enforcement to wiretap multiple telephones to intercept the communications of a single person..."
Courthouse tug of war keeps woman in jail, waiting for abortion: "...Yuriko Kawaguchi, 21, was sentenced to six months in prison Tuesday for forgery but was told by Common Pleas Judge Patricia A. Cleary that the prison time was to keep her from having an abortion..."
Holocaust-Themed Abortion Protest Elicits Violence from Students: "...Anti-abortion billboards on display during this week's Jewish holidays angered students at the University of Kansas, leading to incidents of violence..."
Nazi Echo: Argentina, Death Camps & The Contras: "...tracks of secret financing for the Nicaraguan contra war may cross a troubling money-raising tactic passed on from Adolf Hitler's Nazis to their ideological heirs in Argentina: the liquidation of property from victims killed in death camps..."
Jewish Group, Activists Argue Over Surveillance Files: "...Roy Bullock, acknowledged selling information to the South African government, then Israel's ally. The ADL said he did it on his own, but admitted that some of its information was shared with the Israeli government..."
CUNY's War on CUNY: "...The fight to preserve open admissions against attacks by the Board of Trustees involves nothing less than blocking educational apartheid..."
Summer of Spying and Drama at CCNY: "...what appeared to be a smoke detector in front of NAC room 3/201 really wasn't a smoke detector at all. [it] actually was a surveillance camera...."
Report: Immigrants Abused in Pennsylvania Jails: "...Detainees were "beaten, held naked, made to crawl on their hands and knees through a gauntlet of jail officers, and forced to chant, 'America is Number One'..."
Two Reports on U.S. Bombing of Sudan: "...President Bill Clinton knew he was bombing a civilian target when he ordered the United States attack on a Sudan chemical plant..."
No Freedom to Accuse US of War Crimes: "...In the demonology of the new world order, poison gas is something only 'madmen' from 'rogue states' use, not 'civilised' leaders of the free world. So when a CNN broadcast last month accused the US army of using nerve gas during the Vietnam War, all hell broke loose..."
Abortion Blocked in Incest Case: "...A judge on Friday blocked the parents of a 12-year-old girl who is six months pregnant by her own brother from taking her to Kansas for a late-term abortion..."
Judge Orders Shock Administered to Silence Man: "...His courtroom offense that outraged Municipal Judge Joan Comparet-Cassani was talking too much..."
FDA Orders Books Destroyed: "...the FDA has not approved Stevia as a food additive and, apparently, feels that its jurisdiction extends to controlling information or destroying books..."
U.S., U.K. Plan Biological Warfare in Opium-Producing Nations: "...a joint scientific effort is underway in Uzbekistan which has developed a mutant fungus which attacks opium poppies, signaling the beginning of a campaign of biological warfare..."
CCNY Admits Secret Political Surveillance: "...A secret surveillance camera discovered by City College students outside their meeting room was deployed by campus security officials..."
Two Million Private Conversations Monitored by Government in 1997: "...New York topped the list of states in which wiretaps had been approved with 304. New Jersey was second with 102..."
Another Innocent Family Terrorized In The Name of "Our Children": "...People have to recognize that these raids are the equivalent of the excesses of fascist countries, being played out in America every day..."
Indiana Reporter Arrested After Exposing Drug Task Force Corruption: "...After the arrest, Sheriff Buncich released a statement through his office which read, in part, "I have been advised that congressional funding may not be renewed because of negative reporting by The Times. I, as your sheriff, along with other police chiefs throughout Lake County, will not permit this to happen..."
Suburban Family Terrorized as Cops Raid Wrong House: "...I asked both of my kids if they wanted to stay home from school because of the raid," she said. "They both went to school. They're afraid to be here...."
ACLU Sues Colorado County Sheriff Over Excessive Use of Restraint Board: "...Inmates are tied face down to the board at the ankles, thighs, pelvis, wrists, upper arms and chest. The inmate's head is turned to one side, and two additional straps hold it firmly against the board. Movement is impossible..."
'Family Friendly Library' Censorship: ..."Right to read? It's a bunch of hogwash," he says. "You don't have the right to read anything you want. We have to protect each other from dangerous material."...
US Massacres in Somalia (1993) Exposed: "...new evidence has emerged of how trapped United States troops indiscriminately fired on crowds of Somalis in Mogadishu in 1993, killing more than 1,000 - five times the 'official' number..."
It Can't Happen Here (right?): "...The committee approved a total budget of $2,930,042,000 for the Federal Bureau of Investigation... Of that, over $200 million was set aside for surveillance technology, databases and other privacy related technologies...."
Police Spying On The Internet: "...A Dutch Internet service provider, XS4ALL, has refused to allow the country's Ministry of Justice to place an "Internet wiretap" on one of its subscribers under investigation by the government..."
Six Year-old Suspended for Sharing Lemon Drops: "...The school district's policy treats any unfamiliar product as "drugs", according to an administrator..."
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