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
The action is being taken because six doctors are convinced that the original...
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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 EU member states to grant requests for banking information made by the United...
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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 of millions — including some 8 million automated, web-based requests for GPS...
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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 Pentagon’s base budget between fiscal years 2011 and 2015,” InsideDefense.com reports.
That includes an...
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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 at Guantánamo. The Center for Constitutional Rights brought the suit against...
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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 from the University of East Anglia were leaked via a small web...
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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 to curb global warming, replacing the 1997 Kyoto Protocol.
Manmohan Singh, the Indian...
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