Crime

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...

Gary Benoit January 19, 2009

Blair Holt, Other Gun-control Efforts, on Horizon

Alan Scholl January 19, 2009

No sane person wants innocent people victimized, maimed, or murdered, nor to see the perpetrators escape justice. This is true, whether the perpetrators...

U.S. Soldier Exposes Torture at Guantanamo

Thomas R. Eddlem December 19, 2008

Marine Sgt. Heather Cerveny has exposed torture at Guantanamo, despite high-level pressure to suppress the information. Though the military initially dismissed her allegations,...

Senate Report Fails to Call Guantanamo Abuse Torture

Thomas R. Eddlem December 13, 2008

The bipartisan report on detainee torture at Guantanamo (pdf) released by the Senate Armed Services Committee on December 11 did a good job...

Imprisoned for Seven Years Without Being Charged

Gary Benoit December 9, 2008

Consider this incredible sequence of events. A young American citizen was invited to study in a Middle Eastern country. Having arrived there, the...

Report Confirms Torture at Guantanamo

Becky Akers December 8, 2008

Last month, a consortium of human-rights groups from the University of California at Berkeley released a report entitled Guantanamo and Its Aftermath: U.S....

Guantanamo: Will Justice Again Be Delayed?

November 22, 2008

Federal District Court Judge Richard Leon issued a release order on November 20 for five Algerian prisoners held at the Guantanamo Bay prison....

Terrorist Bill Ayers Misrepresents His Past

William F. Jasper November 16, 2008

Bill Ayers now calls Barack Obama a "neighbor and family friend." He also says the Weather Underground never killed or hurt anyone. This...

FBI Agent John Connally Convicted for Aiding Mafia

William F. Jasper November 12, 2008

On November 6, a Florida jury convicted former FBI Agent John J. Connally, Jr. of initiating the 1982 slaying of a business executive...

New Court Decisions in OKC Bombing

William F. Jasper October 15, 2008

For more than 13 years, The New American has been a leading force in advancing the thesis that Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols,...

Hezbollah Supporter Sentenced

William F. Jasper October 15, 2008

On October 2, U.S. District Judge Marianne Battani sentenced Mohamad Fouad Abdallah, 40, of Dearborn, Michigan, to eight months in prison for e-mailing...