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Ex-C.I.A. Officer Charged in Information Leak
The Justice Department on Monday charged a former Central Intelligence Agency officer with disclosing classified information to journalists about the capture and brutal interrogation of a suspected member of Al Qaeda, Abu Zubaydah
In a criminal complaint filed on Monday, the Federal Bureau of Investigation accused John Kiriakou, the former C.I.A. officer, of disclosing the identity of a C.I.A. analyst who worked on a 2002 operation that located and interrogated Abu Zubaydah. The journalists included a New York Times reporter
At the same time, the department on Monday cleared of wrongdoing a legal defense team for inmates at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, for its efforts to identify officials involved in the coercive interrogations of “high value” suspects. The effort was a project by the American Civil Liberties Union and the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers to bolster the representation of detainees facing death sentences in military commissions.
Mr. Kiriakou, who was released on a $250,000 bond after appearing in federal court in Alexandria, Va., on Monday, was a leader of the team that captured Abu Zubaydah, and he came to public attention in late 2007 when he gave an interview to ABC News portraying the suffocation technique called waterboarding as torture, but calling it necessary. *(It later emerged that he significantly understated the C.I.A.’s use of the technique.)The prosecution of Mr. Kiriakou is the sixth criminal case brought under President Obama against current or former government officials accused of providing classified information to the media, more such cases than all previous presidents combined.
*It was 'necessary'. Since torture initiates false confessions and fantasies designed to pacify professional sadists, all sorts of nonsense about al-CIA-da from Dick Cheney's office became 'intelligence' and 'necessary'- including invading a nation uninvolved in the 9-11 scenario : where the official story cataloging actors presumably destroyed with all evidence was speedily released without the unnecessary expense of the standard FAA crash reporting ( mandatory) and the debris removed without examination or access to investigating authority...supposing such could be identified aside from hapless First Responders sent in without protective gear ( Same as the Deepwater Horizon blowout 'cleanup' crews....or even Exxon Valdez cleanup : Dr. Riki Ott : website
Riki has written a teaching guide for educators who want to show the film Black Wave: The Legacy of the Exxon Valdez to their students. The Black Wave teaching guide is suitable for high school and college Students. Download the free study guide and student handout by clicking here.
UPDATE FOR HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS!
Dr. Michael Harbut has provided up-to-date information for physicians. Michael R. Harbut, M.D., M.P.H. is a Clinical Professor of Internal Medicine at Wayne State University, Director of the Karmanos Cancer Institute's Environmental Cancer Program & Past Chair of the Occupational & Environmental Medicine section of the American College of Chest Physicians. He is Chief at the Center for Occupational and Environmental Medicine, P.C. and has treated many patients with solvents and petroleum exposures. Click here to read Dr. Harbut's recommendations.Individual copies of Riki's books can be ordered through Chelsea Green. Order the film Black Wave through Bull Frog Films. )
Bin Laden was not identified by the FBI as involved at all. That would help explain why there were no extradition proceedings with the Taleban to rendition a Saudi prince; intimate and financier of the Bush empire and CIA operations in Afghanistan.
Taguba Report - Investigation of the 800th Military Police Brigade
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Structural Racism in the United States - PDF
Strategy for Forcing Political Change Through Orchestrated Crisis
Report: White House Pressured Scientists to Underestimate BP Spill Size
Three of the 13 Plume Team experts used a technique called Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) to estimate a leak rate in the range of 25,000 bpd. But three other experts on the Plume Team reported that PIV was underestimating the size of the leak by more than 50%. Those three experts used a different technology to correctly peg the leak rate at 50,000 to 60,000 bpd.
Yet Lehr did not tell the public or key decision makers that there was a deep split on the Plume Team. In the Plume Team’s Final Report, the body of which Lehr wrote, he reported that "most of the Plume Team used PIV" which produced “consistent and accurate” estimates. These underestimates were repeated to the public and media.
Magnetic soap could help in oil spill clean-ups
A droplet containing the soap is attracted to the magnet at left An international team of scientists has demonstrated the first soap that responds to magnets.
Fracking's "Little Revolution": How a People-Powered Movement Fights Big Business for Clean Water
Arctic Ocean freshwater bulge detected
'Peak timber' concerns in tropics
Current tropical timber harvesting practices are not sustainable and nations should consider the implications of "peak timber"Access to opportunity is replaced with demands for universal “excellence” and “achievement,” in which teachers are punished for student “failure.”A 2009 Stanford study found that only 17% of charter schools provided better education than regular public schools.
Geoblogosphere
Montana Takes on Citizens United
The Montana Supreme Court rejected misguided reasoning and upheld a part of a state anticorruption law banning corporations from making political expenditures from general treasuries.
:) 'misguided' or Bought and Paid For ?
Demand USDA NOT Approve Dow's 2,4-D-Resistant GE Corn
TELL MCARDLE TO DO HIS JOB! FIX HUD-AGENCY FAILURES THAT CAUSE FORECLOSURES
Tell Canada to Clean Up Toronto's Air-Rail Transit
( These 3 are from an email. About the last I have nagging concerns about strategic infrastructure degradation/vulnerability. An unrelated thought :truck diesel emission regs have given us less but more toxic emissions coupled with declining fuel efficiency. Now those are captured : and filter disposal is likely another nasty problem )
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The International Monetary Fund says the world's economy is "deeply into the danger zone", with the eurozone crisis requiring urgent action.
Blog of Rights - ACLU
The Long Path Ahead: People of African Descent and the Realization of Human RightsCNN
Google swerves, allows nicknames on Google+
In a big swerve in policy, Google has decided to allow people to sign up using nicknames or other pseudonyms on its growing social network, Google+.
Romney does some damageCNet
Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
Carbon Farmers of Australia
Cap and Trade in India
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Ned Breslin: Lessons From PolioCommentators
Nicolas Bratza: Britain should be defending European justice, not attacking itCommon Dreams
No Grace Under Pressure Here: Mitt Gets Mean(er)
Daily Bell
VIDEO: Irish Bulldog Vincent Browne Pounds EU's Klaus Masuch Over the Irish Bank Bailout
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Democracy Now!
Discovery
iBook Author App Overturning Textbooks
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EPA and U.S. Department of Energy to Develop Renewable Energy on Previously Contaminated Sites; Two Sites in Buffalo Area Among Those to be Assessed for Renewable Energy Projects
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Iran oil sanctions spark war of words between Tehran and Washington
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Facebook expands Questions API
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Malema hearing over, verdict in 'due course'
The ANC appeal committee has wrapped up ANC Youth League leader Julius Malema's appeal hearing and said a decision would be made in "due course".
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Oddly Enough
Open Channel
Ex-CIA agent charged with leaking classified info on Gitmo case
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PEW Clean Energy Program
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International Body Should End Iran's Illegal Satellite Jamming
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NASA’s Research and Technology Studies (RATS) team will conduct its 2012 testing events in two phases. The first phase is further separated into...
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Statesman
Girl struck by car, injured while trying to get to school bus stop
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Time frame for the OSCE Minsk group should be determined, the ruling party of Azerbaijan said.
USA Today
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Drug for Enlarged Prostate May Slow Cancer Growth
Avodart, a drug widely used in the treatment of enlarged prostates, may slow cancer growth in men with very early prostate cancers.
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