Ex-Qwest CEO convicted of corp. crime faces years in prison, millions in fines.
State GOPer equates gays, murderers CO sen. says beliefs same as those US was founded on; rights group irate.
Shhhhh! Top generals sign secrecy letter on budget Top Pentagon generals and admirals had to sign a letter promising to keep defense budget details secret if they wanted to work on the military's fiscal plan. Defense Secretary Robert Gates set the rule, requiring for the first time that each military and civilian official helping prepare the budget sign a non-disclosure statement, Pentagon press secretary Geoff Morrell said Wednesday.
U.S. Energy Department Cannot Account for Nuclear Materials at 15 Locations A number of U.S. institutions with licenses to hold nuclear material reported to the Energy Department in 2004 that the amount of material they held was less than agency records indicated. But rather than investigating the discrepancies, Energy officials wrote off significant quantities of nuclear material from the department's inventory records. A report released yesterday by Energy Department Inspector General Gregory Friedman that concluded "the department cannot properly account for and effectively manage its nuclear materials maintained by domestic licensees and may be unable to detect lost or stolen material."
Lawyer says Guantanamo abuse worse since Obama Abuse of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay has worsened sharply since President Barack Obama took office as prison guards "get their kicks in" before the camp is closed, according to a lawyer who represents prisoners. Abuses began to pick up in December after Obama was elected, human rights lawyer Ahmed Ghappour told Reuters. He cited beatings, the dislocation of limbs, spraying of pepper spray into closed cells, applying pepper spray to toilet paper and over-forcefeeding detainees who are on hunger strike.
50,000 US troops to remain in Iraq under Obama 'withdrawal' plan President Obama will likely announce a pullout of U.S. troops from Iraq later this week, according to a Defense Department official... The official said it appears Obama is "trending" toward troop 'withdrawal' in 19 months. While campaigning for President, then Sen. Obama pledged to drawdown U.S. forces in Iraq within 16 months. A residual force would be left behind, somewhere in the neighborhood of 50,000 troops.
Release of Iraq war minutes vetoed --Details of cabinet discussions held in the run-up to the Iraq war are to be kept secret after the Government decided to take the unprecedented step of vetoing their publication. Campaigners had demanded to see the minutes of two meetings, on 13 and 17 March 2003, amid allegations that the Cabinet failed to discuss properly or challenge the decision to invade Iraq. The legality of the war was also discussed at the meetings. For the first time, the Government has decided to make use of "Section 53" of the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act, allowing it to veto the release of the documents.
KBR Q4 Profit Climbs As Revenues Surge 42% Engineering, construction and services company KBR, Inc. Wednesday, reported a rise in the fourth-quarter profit, helped by a 42% rise in revenue and positive contribution from LNG project change order. KBR's net income for the quarter increased to $88 million or $0.54 per share from $71 million or $0.42 per share in the comparable period.
Army is fighting British jihadists in Afghanistan --Top Army officers reveal surge in attacks by radicalised Britons British soldiers are engaged in "a surreal mini civil war" with growing numbers of home-grown jihadists who have travelled to Afghanistan to support the Taliban, senior Army officers have told The Independent. Interceptions of Taliban communications have shown that British jihadists – some "speaking with West Midlands accents" – are active in Helmand and other parts of southern Afghanistan, according to briefing papers prepared by an official security agency.
Obama says to forge new anti-terrorism strategy for Afghanistan, Pakistan U.S. President Barack Obama pledged on Tuesday that the United States will continue its previous efforts to foment terrorism. "We will forge a new and comprehensive strategy for Afghanistan and Pakistan to defeat al-Qaeda and combat extremism," said Obama in his first address to a joint session of the Congress. "I will not allow terrorists to plot against the American people from safe havens half a world away," he said.
US refuses to free the final British resident in captivity --Wife pleads for return of man who hasn't met youngest son The British wife of the final UK resident being held in Guantanamo Bay has pleaded for her husband's release so he can be united with the son he has never seen. Shaker Aamer, was separated from his family more than seven years ago while they were visiting Afghanistan. He claims to have been beaten and tortured during his detention at the notorious US Navy detention centre in Cuba.
Guantanamo veteran stopped from attending reunion party --Qatari national detained at Heathrow for failing to notify Government of arrival Plans for a Guantanamo reunion arranged for the newly-freed British resident Binyam Mohamed have been abandoned after Government intervention. Home Office officials detained a Qatari national [Jarullah al-Marri] yesterday who had flown into the UK to join other inmates of the notorious US Navy prison at a secret location in the British countryside, where they were to celebrate Mr Mohamed's freedom.
Mexico drug war prompts federal contingency plan The Department of Homeland Security has contingency plans to rush additional personnel and other resources, including the U.S. military, to parts of the southern border if law enforcement agencies on the ground are overwhelmed by spillover effects from escalating criminal violence in Mexico, department officials say.
Anthrax investigation still yielding findings --Chemical composition of spores doesn't match suspect flask. The deadly bacterial spores mailed to victims in the US anthrax attacks, scientists say, share a chemical 'fingerprint' that is not found in bacteria from the flask linked to Bruce Ivins, the biodefence researcher implicated in the crime. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) alleges that Ivins, who committed suicide last July, was the person responsible for mailing letters laden with Bacillus anthracis to news media and congressional offices in 2001, killing five people and sickening 17.
Petition filed over removal of Obama picture at Peterson Civilian workers at an Air Force Base in Colorado have filed a union grievance over the removal of a portrait of President Barack Obama from the base commissary. Obama's photograph was on a sign at the Peterson Air Force Base commissary in Colorado Springs listing the store's Presidents Day hours for Feb. 16, commissary employee Lavonda Bacon said. She said it was replaced [by racist maggots] Feb. 10 with a sign with no picture.
FDA ignored debris in syringes --Complaints of filth came in 2005; plant's microbiologist was a teenage dropout (NC) Months before an Angier company shipped deadly bacteria-tainted drugs, the federal Food and Drug Administration received numerous complaints about sediment and debris in the medicine. The FDA received reports about AM2PAT as early as 2005, but not until December 2007 did the agency issue recall notices to pull the drugs off the market. AM2PAT, which is now the subject of a criminal investigation, sold tainted syringes of heparin and saline that have been linked to five deaths.
Group of Rich Americans Sues UBS to Keep Names Secret in Tax Case UBS was sued on Tuesday in a Swiss federal court by wealthy American clients seeking to prevent the disclosure of their identities as part of a tax-evasion investigation by the United States Justice Department. The lawsuit accuses UBS and Switzerland’s financial regulator, the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority, or Finma, of violating Swiss bank secrecy laws and of conducting what Swiss law considers illegal activities with foreign authorities.
Infringement Case Against McCain Advances John McCain says he was a puppet for the Republican National Committee and therefore should not be held accountable for a presidential campaign commercial that used the popular song "Running on Empty" by Jackson Browne without permission. But the Los Angeles federal judge presiding over the copyright-infringement case was not buying it. The judge refused late Friday to remove the Arizona senator from the lawsuit in which he and the Republican National Committee are accused of violating the rights to Browne's 1977 hit.
Gov. Bobby Jindal headed for vacation after GOP speech
Will's “final thought” on Obama speech: “I don't know when men started to hug each other, but hug they do, and look at that”
52M Watch Obama Speech -- 12M More Than Bush's First
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