Archive for December 6th, 2009

Six senior doctors have begun legal action to force a new inquest into the death of Dr David Kelly, the scientist who died days after being exposed as the source of a controversial BBC story on the Iraq war. The Telegraph 12/5/09 By Andrew Alderson...

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Times Online 12/6/09 By David Leppard THE CIA is to be given broad access to the bank records of millions of Britons under a European Union plan to fight terrorism. The Brussels agreement, which will come into force in two months’ time, requires the 27...

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Blacklisted News/Raw Story 12/6/09 According to a graduate student’s research into the spying policies of major U.S. telecommunications companies, at a recent security conference a Sprint surveillance manager told a group of onlookers that half of all police requests include the target’s text messages. Half...

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Wired 12/6/09 By Noah Shachtman For those of you who hoped — or worried — that the Obama administration would mean a big cut to defense spending, think again. The Office of Management and Budget ” has approved a nearly $60 billion increase in the...

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After Downing Street 12/6/09 On Friday afternoon, December 4, 2009, the government filed reply papers in support of its motion to dismiss the case of Al-Zahrani v. Rumsfeld, arguing that no federal court has the power to hear cases seeking accountability for abuse of detainees...

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Mail Online 12/6/09 Suspicions were growing last night that Russian security services were behind the leaking of the notorious British ‘Climategate’ emails which threaten to undermine tomorrow’s Copenhagen global warming summit. An investigation by The Mail on Sunday has discovered that the explosive hacked emails...

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Al Jazeera 12/6/09 Delegates from 190 nations have been gathering in the Danish capital of Copenhagen, ahead of the much anticipated 12-day climate change summit. The biggest UN climate talks in history, due to begin on Monday, are aimed at working out a new pact...

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