Counterterrorism official says FBI is recruiting inexperienced managers.
Big Oil defends profits before irate senators --Five oil companies earned $36 billion during the first three months of 2008. On a day oil prices leaped to unheard-of highs, senators lined up Big Oil's biggest executives and pummeled them with complaints that they're pretending to be "hapless victims" while raking in record profits.
AP: Leaky New Orleans levee alarms experts Despite more than $22 million in 'repairs,' a levee that broke was exploded with catastrophic effect during Hurricane Katrina is leaking again because of the mushy ground on which New Orleans was built, raising serious questions about the reliability of the city's flood defenses. The Army Corps of Engineers has spent about $4 billion so far of the $14 billion set aside by Congress to repair and upgrade the metropolitan area's hundreds of miles of levees by 2011.
FBI watched Guantanamo abuse - report An FBI agent watched Australian prisoner [former Sydney taxi driver] Mamdouh Habib repeatedly vomit during a marathon interrogation session at Guantanamo Bay in 2004, according to a long-awaited US Justice Department report released today. Details about Mr Habib's confinement at Guantanamo, including an alleged assault inflicted by a private-contract interrogator with Lockheed Martin, were included in the 370-page report that took the Department of Justice more than three years to compile.
Report: U.S. Soldiers Did 'Dirty Work' for Chinese Interrogators --Alleges Guantanamo Personnel Softened Up [Tortured] Detainees at Request of Chinese Intelligence U.S. military personnel at Guantanamo Bay allegedly softened up prisoners at the request of Chinese intelligence officials who had come to the island facility to interrogate the men -- or they allowed the Chinese to dole out the treatment themselves, according to claims in a new government report. Buried in a Department of Justice report released Tuesday are new allegations about a 2002 arrangement between the United States and China, which allowed Chinese intelligence to visit Guantanamo and interrogate Chinese Uighurs held there.
Mubarak snubs Bush at World Economic Forum --Egyptian leader walks out after Bush misses his keynote The presidents of Egypt and the United States appeared to snub each other at the opening of the World Economic Forum in the Red Sea city of Sharm al-Sheikh yesterday, press reports said, aggravating tensions between Washington and Cairo. Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak inaugurated the meeting with a keynote speech, attended by some 14 heads of state and government, but not U.S. President [sic] George W. Bush, Egyptian daily Al-Masry al-Youm reported on Monday. As Mubarak spoke, the seats of the American delegation remained empty. According to Al-Masry al-Youm, Mubarak deliberately left the Forum's main hall after delivering his speech and did not wait to hear Bush's address.
George W Bush Authorized 911 Attacks, Says Government Insider Stanley Hilton was a senior advisor to Sen. Bob Dole (R) and has personally known Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz for decades. The following is from his latest visit to Alex Jones' radio show. "This (9/11) was all planned. This was a government-ordered operation. Bush personally signed the order. He personally authorized the attacks. He is guilty of treason and mass murder." --Stanley Hilton - Alex Jones interview of Stanley Hilton, attorney for 911 taxpayers' lawsuit.
Plan to record all calls and emails alarms watchdog Internet companies and security experts have reacted angrily to the prospect of a government database that could keep a record of every telephone call, email and website visit made in Britain. Proposals in the forthcoming data communications bill show how the Home Office is planning to create a database that would allow officials to monitor all communications traffic. The bill would force internet and telephone companies to keep full details of every movement made by customers, with government agencies across Europe potentially able to access the information.
Congresswoman denies foreclosure report — Update: California Rep. Laura Richardson today denied a published report that her $535,000 Sacramento home had slipped into foreclosure, saying she had renegotiated her loan to keep the home. — The house “... is not in foreclosure and has NOT been seized …
House Override of Farm Bill Veto Is Only the 2nd in Bush's Presidency — WASHINGTON — The House voted overwhelmingly on Wednesday to override President Bush's veto of the $307 billion farm bill, just the second override in his presidency. — The 316-to-108 House vote was far …
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