Cop Killers, Ideology, and Blame
Six days before Richard Poplawski, 22, was arrested on April 4 after a shootout in Pittsburgh that left three police officers dead, he...
Crime
Government Witness Under Psychiatric Care
The Department of Justice withheld the psychiatric records of a detainee who's been used by the government as a witness in a number...
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Terrorist Bill Ayers May Finally Be Brought to Justice
Thanks to President Barack Obama, the family of Sgt. Brian McDonnell of the San Francisco Police Department may finally get justice. The Weather...
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Not One Terrorist Plot Foiled by Torture of Abu Zubaida
Former President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney have long claimed that "a great many" terrorist plots had been foiled by...
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Most Guantanamo Detainees Innocent?
Lawrence B. Wilkerson served as chief of staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell, one of the senior Bush Administration officials that pushed...
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Supreme Court Almost Vindicates Trial Rights
The U.S. Supreme Court almost vindicated the trial rights of persons seized within the territorial United States by vacating an appellate court judgment...
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Violence Spills Across U.S.-Mexico Border
The increasing violence that the drug cartels have been inflicting on Mexico is now making its way across the Rio Grande into the...
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Justice Department’s Torture Inquiry
Attorney General Eric Holder’s office has nearly completed a report that excoriates the three senior Bush administration officials who gave a pseudo-legal imprimatur...
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“Torture Memo” Author Attacks Torture Ban
Former Justice Department lawyer John Yoo castigated President Obama’s decision to ban torture and close Guantanamo in a January 29 Wall Street Journal...
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Phony Guantanamo Recidivism Numbers?
The Department of Defense claimed in a dramatic press briefing on January 13 that “61 in all former Guantanamo detainees are confirmed or...
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Obama’s Orders to Close Gitmo, Ban Torture, Review Detention
President Barack Obama signed three executive orders on the first full day of his presidency, January 21, to (1) ban the use of...
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Gun Controllers Target Ammunition
The new and heavily liberal legislative bodies now ensconced in Washington and in many statehouses across the nation now pose a slow equivalent...
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Former Border Patrol Agents to be Released
During his last full day in office, President George W. Bush has commuted the sentences of former Border Patrol agents Jose Compean and...
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Blair Holt, Other Gun-control Efforts, on Horizon
No sane person wants innocent people victimized, maimed, or murdered, nor to see the perpetrators escape justice. This is true, whether the perpetrators...
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U.S. Soldier Exposes Torture at Guantanamo
Marine Sgt. Heather Cerveny has exposed torture at Guantanamo, despite high-level pressure to suppress the information. Though the military initially dismissed her allegations,...
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