Friday, January 29, 2010

SPB News for Friday

After strangling, wife sues ex-Bush attorney for$30 million; fears husband's 'past associations'


48 Million Watch President Obama's First State of the Union Address

Iraq inquiry is being 'gagged' after secret documents withheld --Crucial evidence about the reasons Britain went to war against Saddam Hussein is being kept secret it has emerged – leading to accusations that the Iraq inquiry has been "gagged". In an apparent breach of the Inquiry terms, Sir John Chilcot, head of the probe, expressed his "frustration" that he was unable to refer to key documents while questioning Lord Goldsmith, the former Attorney General, about why he gave the "green light" for war. Lord Goldsmith also said that he was unhappy at being denied the opportunity to discuss documents including a letter from Jack Straw, then-former foreign secretary, about United Nations negotiations.

White House orders Justice Department to look for other places to hold 9/11 terror trial The White House ordered the Justice Department to consider other places to try the 9/11 terror suspects after a wave of [hypocritcal] opposition to holding the trial in lower Manhattan. The White House took the action hours after Mayor Bloomberg called Attorney General Eric Holder to say he would "prefer that they did it elsewhere."

Accused Louisiana Co-Conspirator Helped Run Academic Program Funded by U.S. Intelligence One of four men arrested on Tuesday for attempting to interfere with the telephones at the New Orleans office of Sen. Mary Landrieu previously worked for a U.S. intelligence-funded program to train would-be American spies, Declassified has learned. Between August 2007 and October 2008, Stanley Dai served as assistant director of a program called the Intelligence Community Center of Academic Excellence at Trinity Washington University, a small Catholic college in Washington D.C., according to a school official. The official, university vice president Ann Pauley, said that the program was completely funded by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.

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