SPB News for Monday.

King Of Jordan To Meet Obama On April 21

AP: US citizens held as illegals

Over-zealous effort to catch illegal immigrants ended in deporting citizens.

Karl Rove to Speak at Denison University --Karl Rove Speaks at Denison University (Granville, OH) Contact Barbara Stambaugh, Media Relations - Email mailto:stambaugb@denison.edu Phone 740-587-8575 Fax 740-587-6364 Speaking date: Thursday, 16 April 2009, 8PM, Swasey Chapel (200 Chapel Drive) Karl Rove, former deputy chief of staff and senior adviser to President [sic] George W. Bush, will speak at Denison University on April 16. The lecture, which is sponsored by Denison's College Republicans, is free and open to the public.

Students send the CIA packing Students and activists won a victory April 9 when they forced the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) into a last-minute cancellation of its recruitment session at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. For a third year, members of the Campus Antiwar Network (CAN), Iraq Veterans Against the War and the International Socialist Organization joined forces to protest the CIA, but this is the first year that the agency canceled, after activists exposed the agency's dark history of assassinations, political sabotage and torture.

Contractor Must Pay in Iraq Fraud, Court Rules A federal appeals court ruled Friday that a contractor [mercenaries] found to have committed widespread fraud in Iraq could not avoid paying millions of dollars in damages by claiming that the United States law governing false claims essentially did not apply there, as a previous judge had found on technical grounds. The earlier decision set aside a jury’s verdict in 2006 that the contractor, Custer Battles, must pay about $10 million in damages and penalties to the United States government and two whistle-blowers.

Last week's poll had asked:

NATO leaders agreed to deploy up to 5,000 extra troops and provide funds and training for an expanded Afghan army and police force. Should it expand to involve other nations? Majority of readers answered yes. This week's poll is now up.