White House would require airlines to collect visitors' information, send to DHS.
More convicted felons allowed to enlist in Army, Marines --Marines recruited felons with manslaughter and sex crime convictions Under pressure to meet combat needs, the Army and Marine Corps brought in significantly more recruits with felony convictions last year than in 2006, including some with manslaughter and sex crime convictions.
Torture victim's records lost at Guantánamo, admits camp general --No evidence of al-Qaida suspect's interrogation --CCTV automatically recorded over tapes The former head of interrogations at Guantánamo Bay found that records of an 'al-Qaida' suspect tortured at the prison camp were mysteriously lost by the US military, according to a new book by one of Britain's top human rights lawyers. Retired general Michael Dunlavey, who supervised Guantánamo for eight months in 2002, tried to locate records on Mohammed al-Qahtani, accused by the US of plotting the 9/11 attacks, but found they had disappeared. The records on al-Qahtani, who was interrogated for 48 days - "were backed up ... after I left, there was a snafu and all was lost", Dunlavey told Philippe Sands QC, who reports the conversation in his book Torture Team, previewed last week by the Guardian.
S. Carolina considers special prisons, funded by Homeland Security South Carolina sheriffs back a plan to build three regional prisons in the state to hold illegal immigrants [hmm... others, too?] as they await deportation. The current plan calls for the three prisons to hold up to 400 inmates each. State prison officials will run the facilities, which will be paid for through a program with the federal Department of Homeland Security.
José Can You See? Bush's Trojan Taco -- While you Democrats are pounding each other to a pulp in Pennsylvania, the President [sic] has snuck back down to New Orleans for a meeting of the NAFTA Three: the Prime Minister of Canada and the President of Mexico. You’re not supposed to know that – for two reasons: First, the summit planned for the N.O. two years back was meant to showcase the rebuilt Big Easy, a monument to can-do Bush-o-nomics. Well, it is a monument to Bush’s leadership: The city still looks like Dresden 1946, with over half the original residents living in toxic trailers or wandering lost and broke in America. The second reason Bush has kept this major summit a virtual secret is its real agenda - and the real agenda-makers... The North American Competitiveness Council. Never heard of The Council? Well, maybe you’ve heard of the counsellors: the chief executives of Wal-Mart, Chevron Oil, Lockheed-Martin and 27 other multinational masters of the corporate universe.
Halliburton Profit Rises After Oil Climbs to Record Halliburton Co., the world's second-largest oilfield contractor, said profit rose 5.8 percent after crude topped $100 a barrel, prompting producers to increase spending on Middle East and Latin American projects. First-quarter net income climbed to $584 million from $552 million a year earlier, Houston-based Halliburton said today in a statement.
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