Iceland tops study of most peaceful countries; US lands in bottom third.
NY Post fires black reporter
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.
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.
NY Post fires black reporter
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.
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.
House passes bill to sue OPEC over oil prices, Bush threatens veto The House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved (324-84) legislation on Tuesday allowing the Justice Department to sue OPEC members for limiting oil supplies and working together to set crude prices, but the White House threatened to veto the measure. The bill would subject OPEC oil producers to the same antitrust laws that U.S. companies must follow.
White House denies Army Radio report on plan to attack Iran The White House on Tuesday flatly denied an Army Radio report that claimed US President [sic] George W. Bush intends to attack Iran before the end of his term. Army Radio had quoted a top official in Jerusalem claiming that a senior member in the entourage of President Bush, who visited Israel last week, had said in a closed meeting here that Bush and Vice President [sic] Dick Cheney were of the opinion that military action
Japan pays Australian rape victim $30,000 as US sailor walks free Japan will pay compensation of three million yen ($30,000) to an Australian woman who was raped in 2002 by a US sailor who never faced prosecution. But the victim, who uses the pseudonym of Jane, says it means little because the rapist is still free.
Home Office plans to create 'Big brother' database for phones calls, emails and web use --The Government wants to create the system to 'fight' terrorism and crime. The Home Office will create a database to store the details of every phone call made, every email sent and every web page visited by British citizens in the previous year under plans currently under discussion, it has emerged. Telecom firms and internet service providers (ISPs) have already been approached by the Home Office, which would be given customer records if the plans were realised.
Discrimination against military to become crime (UK) The Government is to bring in new laws making it a criminal offence to discriminate against people in military uniform and impose extra penalties on those convicted of assault or harassment of service personnel. The new legislation will be among 40 recommendations in a report adopted by the Government, including an Armed Forces Day bank holiday and a drive to enrol state school pupils into cadet forces.
In Presidential Memo, A New Designation for Classifying Information A new Bush memorandum, signed on the eve of his daughter Jenna's wedding, introduced "Controlled Unclassified Information" as a new government category that will replace "Sensitive but Unclassified." Such information -- though it does not merit the well-known national security classifications "confidential," "secret" or "top secret" -- is nonetheless "pertinent" to U.S. "national interests" or to "important interests of entities outside the federal government," the memo says. The information could be, for example, the steps taken to protect power plants from terrorists , or which pipelines are most vulnerable to attack.
Gov. Paterson In Hospital With Migraine New York Gov. David Paterson has been diagnosed with acute glaucoma in his left eye and is undergoing an outpatient laser procedure. Paterson admitted himself to Manhattan's Mount Sinai Medical Center earlier today after experiencing "migraine-like symptoms."
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