SPB News for Thursday.

Muslim woman demands an apology from Obama after camera snub

Kucinich Vows More Impeachment Articles On the Way

Bush committed war crimes: Gen.Head of Abu Ghraib probe calls for 'those responsible' to be brought to account

Government "Strike Teams" Invade Homes, Harass Flood Victims --Cops break down doors, threaten residents who question them as part of martial law conditioning, authorities prevent people from re-entering their homes By Paul Joseph Watson Shocking footage out of Cedar Rapids Iowa shows cops and government employee "strike teams" breaking into houses of flood victims and threatening anyone who questions their actions in complete violation of the 4th amendment right that protects against unlawful search and seizure.

CIA Played Larger Role In Advising Pentagon A senior CIA lawyer advised Pentagon officials about the use of torture on prisoners at Guantanamo Bay in a meeting in late 2002, defending waterboarding and other methods as permissible despite U.S. and international laws banning torture, according to documents released yesterday by congressional investigators. Torture "is basically subject to perception," CIA counterterrorism lawyer Jonathan Fredman told a group of military and intelligence officials gathered at the U.S.-run detention camp in Cuba on Oct. 2, 2002, according to minutes of the meeting. "If the detainee dies, you're doing it wrong." ...By the time of the meeting, the CIA already had used waterboarding on at least one terrorism suspect and was holding high-level 'al-Qaeda' detainees in secret prisons overseas -- actions that Bush administration lawyers had approved.

Report: Exams reveal US electric shock torture of detainees --Report reveals medical evidence of torture, including beatings and electric shock --Study calls on U.S. government to issue a formal apology to tortured detainees Former terrorist suspects detained by the United States were tortured, according to medical examinations detailed in a report released Wednesday by a human rights group. The Massachusetts-based Physicians for Human Rights reached that conclusion after two-day clinical evaluations of 11 former detainees, who had been held at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and in Afghanistan. The detainees were never charged with crimes. In a 121-page report, the doctors' group said that it uncovered medical evidence of torture, including beatings, electric shock, sleep deprivation, sexual humiliation, sodomy and scores of other abuses

Mississippi River levees break, more at risk The swollen Mississippi River ran over the top of at least nine more levees on Wednesday as floodwaters swallowed up more U.S. farmland, feeding inflation fears as corn prices soared to a record high. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said a levee broke at 1 a.m. CDT near Meyer, Illinois, leaving more than 17,000 acres of prime farmland at risk from the floodwaters.

Nearly Half of Wall St. Bank Profits Are Gone Only a year ago, Wall Street reveled in an era of superlatives: record deals, record profit, record pay. But a mere 12 months later, nearly half of the profits that major banks reaped during that age of riches have vanished.