Abuse Photos Part of Agreement on Military Spending –Deal: Obama would use all administrative and legal means to prevent release of the release 12 Jun 2009 Congressional negotiators reached tentative agreement on Thursday on a $105.9 billion spending measure that would provide money for military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan through September but would drop a ban on the release of photographs showing abuse of foreign prisoners held by United States forces. At the same time, a federal court issued a ruling effectively ensuring that the photos would not be released for months, if ever.
Kidnapping we can believe in: Feds ask court to reconsider CIA renditions suit 12 Jun 2009 The U.S. Department of Justice is asking a federal appeals court in San Francisco to reconsider its decision to allow a Boeing Co. subsidiary to be sued for allegedly flying terrorism suspects to secret prisons overseas to be tortured. In April, a panel of judges from the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the lawsuit dealing with the CIA’s “extraordinary rendition” program could proceed.
Obama Administration Seeks to Keep Torture Victims From Having Day In Court –Justice Department Asks Court For Rehearing In Extraordinary Rendition Lawsuit Against Boeing Subsidiary (ACLU) 12 Jun 2009 The Justice Department today argued that the victims of the “extraordinary rendition” program should not have their day in court, asking a federal appeals court to block a landmark case the court had earlier ruled could go forward. In April, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that an American Civil Liberties Union lawsuit against Boeing subsidiary, Jeppesen DataPlan Inc., for its role in the Bush administration’s unlawful “extraordinary rendition” program could proceed, but today the government asked the appeals court’s full panel of judges to rehear that decision.
Abuse Photos Part of Agreement on Military Spending –Deal: Obama would use all administrative and legal means to prevent release of the release 12 Jun 2009 Congressional negotiators reached tentative agreement on Thursday on a $105.9 billion spending measure that would provide money for military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan through September but would drop a ban on the release of photographs showing abuse of foreign prisoners held by United States forces. At the same time, a federal court issued a ruling effectively ensuring that the photos would not be released for months, if ever.
3 Guantanamo detainees sent to Saudi Arabia 12 Jun 2009 U.S. officials say three Guantanamo Bay prisoners have been sent home to Saudi Arabia. The Justice Department say the trio will be subject to judicial review in Saudi Arabia before they participate in a rehabilitation program administered by the Saudi government. With the latest transfer, the U.S. has removed 10 prisoners from Guantanamo in the past week… That leaves 229 prisoners still at the U.S. military detention center in Cuba.
Terror drill: ‘New York, you have a problem’ –Much of the drill played out behind the scenes and only select specifics were made public. 12 Jun 2009 A terror exercise earlier this week involved hundreds of New York Police Department officers and FBI agents trained at detecting threats, along with an elite unit of federal weapons experts expected — with the approval of the U.S. attorney general — to swoop in by plane and defuse them. There have been no specific threats against New York City. But since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, law enforcement officials have repeatedly warned that the city remains atop terrorists’ hit lists — and that a radiological or nuclear device could be in their arsenal.
41 U.S. Counter-Terrorism and Intelligence Agency Veterans Challenge the Official Account of 9/11 By Alan Miller 19 May 2009 Following in the footsteps of well over 1,000 scientists and other professional groups who have already gone on record questioning the official theory, more than 40 U.S. Counter-Terrorism and Intelligence Agency veterans have come forward to challenge the Government’s rendition of the September 11, 2001 attacks.
Sizewell nuclear disaster averted by dirty laundry, says official report –Contractor noticed water from radioactive cooling pond that posed ‘significant risk to operators and public’ 11 Jun 2009 A nuclear leak, which could have caused a major disaster, was only averted by a chance decision to wash some dirty clothes, according to a newly obtained official report. On the morning of Sunday 7 January 2007, one of the contractors working on decommissioning the Sizewell A nuclear power station on the Suffolk coast was in the laundry room when he noticed cooling water leaking on to the floor from the pond that holds the reactor’s highly radioactive spent nuclear fuel. As much as 40,000 gallons of radioactive water spilled out of a 15ft long split in a pipe, some leaking into the North Sea. The pond water level had dropped by more than a foot (330mm) – yet none of the sophisticated alarms in the plant sounded in the main control room…
Japan Probes Report Two Seized With $134 Billion In U.S. Bonds 12 Jun 2009 Japan is investigating reports two of its citizens were detained in Italy after allegedly attempting to take $134 billion worth of U.S. bonds over the border into Switzerland. The Asahi newspaper reported today Italian police found bond certificates concealed in the bottom of luggage the two individuals were carrying on a train that stopped in Chiasso, near the Swiss border, on June 3.
