TOPOFF 5 terror exercise contract reviewed for ethics issue --FEMA mum on value of TOPOFF 5 contract; TOPOFF 4 cost $25 million Federal officials are investigating whether millions of dollars are being steered improperly toward a government contractor to run the country's largest counterterrorism exercise. At issue is a written request for companies to compete for the TOPOFF 5 exercise contract and whether an employee of Science Applications International Corp. (SAIC) wrote parts of the proposal, according to officials familiar with the contract who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss a sensitive procurement activity.
Mich. Talks Homeland Security With Israeli Police Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox hosted a conference Thursday that brought more than 200 law enforcement leaders together to meet with members of the Israeli National Police to discuss security issues. Homeland security issues regarding the Detroit-Windsor tunnel were expected to be discussed. The meeting was one in a series of exchanges between American and Israeli law security agencies.
Judge rejects attempt to block Guantanamo trial A U.S. military judge has rejected another attempt to halt the first Guantanamo war crimes [show] trial. The Navy judge's ruling comes as a civilian judge in Washington considers a separate bid to stop the trial of Salim Hamdan. Hamdan is a former driver for Osama bin Laden.
Senators Call for the Closing of Guantanamo The Guantanamo Bay detainee prison in Cuba seems to have few fans among Senate lawmakers these days. Several senators spoke out against Guantanamo at a Judiciary Committee hearing on Wednesday, calling for the facility to be shut down and assailing the Bush administration’s policy on prisoners of war. "We cannot defeat terrorism by abandoning our basic American principles and values," said Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.). "With the pictures from Abu Ghraib and tales of unjustified detentions and torture, we have provided our enemies with a recruiting field day."
Bush can hold terrorist suspect indefinitely: US court A federal appeals court on Tuesday ruled that President [sic] George W. Bush has the power to keep a terrorist suspect jailed indefinitely, but that the prisoner has the right to challenge his detention as an "enemy combatant." The 4th US Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Virginia, took up the case of Ali Al-Marri, the only "war on terror" suspect arrested on US soil, and reversed a June 2007 decision by a lower court denying Bush the power to keep the suspect jailed indefinitely and ordering his release.
CITGO, the Embassy of Venezuela and Citizens Energy Launch Energy Efficient Lighting Program in Houston CITGO Petroleum Corporation Chairman, President and CEO Alejandro Granado, Citizens Energy Chairman Joseph P. Kennedy II and Ambassador of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela Bernardo Alvarez joined today at the home of Houston resident Delores Smith to promote a national pilot program providing low-income households with energy efficient and environmentally friendly compact fluorescent light bulbs (CFLs). In Houston, the program will distribute an estimated 140,000 CFLs throughout the summer and early fall in 7,000 households -- approximately one third of the national total.
Banks reportedly not taking IndyMac checks --Finally able to withdraw their money, customers can't open new accounts The frustration didn't end for some IndyMac customers when they finally were able to withdraw their funds from the failing Southern California bank seized last week by federal regulators. Some people have run into more problems when they tried to deposit IndyMac cashier checks at other banks.
Obama doubles McCain, raising $52 million in June Democrat Barack Obama raised $52 million for his presidential campaign in June, more than twice as much as Republican John McCain. In statements released this morning, the Obama campaign and the Democratic National Committee announced they had a combined $92.3 million in cash on hand. The campaign reported $72 million and the DNC $20.3 million, a sizable increase since Obama became the presumptive nominee.
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New US policy is we kidnap innocent men/women/children. We torture kids and woman. We rape kids and woman in our jails and we justify it because we lie to ourselves.
The United States demand that all those Nazi's pay for their crimes even those who just followed orders. Now we do the same thing but justify our actions. We have become no better then the Nazi's and we will see the same thing happen to the USA. Being ignorant is no excuse for the USA as the action we have done will take decades to repair.
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