Friday, April 03, 2009

SPB News for Friday.



House Approves FDA Regulation of Tobacco Products

Specter Already Running Cable Ads Against Toomey

Brooks: 'Press Is Pro-Obama' -- But 'Bias Is Unconscious'


G20 leaders agree to trillion-dollar rescue Gordon Brown claimed that the process of ending the global recession had begun yesterday, after the G20 summit agreed a $1.1 trillion boost to reverse the credit crunch.

Army lied about how my son died in Iraq: Friendly-fire victim was 'misidentified' as enemy gunman Army brass in Iraq whitewashed an incident of a soldier killed by his own lieutenant by blaming the dead hero, stonewalling his family and promoting his killer, the Daily News has learned. The friendly-fire victim, Pfc. David Sharrett, 27, of Oakton, Va., was "misidentified" by 1st Lt. Timothy Hanson as an enemy gunman during a botched night raid Jan. 16, 2008, against an 'Al Qaeda in Iraq' stronghold north of Baghdad, the Army belatedly acknowledged. Sharrett bled to death as his buddies searched frantically for him for 25 minutes after the firefight ended.

Rutgers gets homeland security research grant Rutgers University will conduct research for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security on analyzing information to help detect national security threats. Rutgers will partner with Purdue University in developing the DHS Center of Excellence for Command, Control and Interoperability.

CIA exercise turns up security concerns at N.C. water plant The Elizabeth City water plant is vulnerable to attack, most likely from vandals or someone with a grudge rather than from terrorists, a team from the CIA training base at Harvey Point found last week. The assessment served as a training exercise for the CIA and an alert to local officials, said Paul Fredette, director of Elizabeth City public utilities. Elizabeth City's water system of about 7,000 customers was rated as a low priority for a terrorist attack, Fredette said.

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