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Post-9/11 Dragnet Turns Up Surprises
In the six-and-a-half years that the U.S. government has been fingerprinting insurgents, detainees and ordinary people in Afghanistan, Iraq and the Horn of Africa, hundreds have turned out to share an unexpected background, FBI and military officials said... Full Article At Washington Post
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Don Young Gives Campaign Cash to Lawyers
Rep. Don Young (R-AK) has been fighting corruption charges for awhile . He even tried a legal defense fund to help him through hard times , but now it looks like he's started to pay his own million-dollar legal tab from his campaign funds, but... Full Article At TPM Muckraker
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AK-AL: Don Young lawyers up, and lawyers his staff up too
You know your legal problems are bad, when you're spending more on your campaign manager's legal fees than he makes , and more than you're spending on campaign polling despite facing the two toughest challengers you've seen in nearly twenty years. With an ... Full Article At Daily Kos
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Currie can get papers
Judge rules senator is entitled to copies of material in case State Sen. Ulysses Currie is entitled to have copies of materials seized from his home during an FBI raid in May, as well as the search warrant affidavit filed by the U.S. attorney's office... Full Article At Baltimore Sun - Local Politics
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Alaska lawmaker is paying aide's legal bills
With an Election-year corruption investigation looming, Rep. Don Young has tapped his campaign funds not only to pay his million-dollar legal tab but also to hire lawyers for his campaign manager, who... Full Article At Baltimore Sun - National
Currie entitled to get papers, judge rules
State senator facing probe over ties to grocery chain may have copies of material seized in case State Sen. Ulysses Currie is entitled to have copies of materials seized from his home during an FBI raid in May, as well as the search warrant affidavit filed... Full Article At Baltimore Sun - Local Politics
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Colombia's Commandos Perform Remarkably
The raid that freed the hostages recalls the Israelis at Entebbe, while the FBI looks inept.... Full Article At U.S. News & World Report
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FBI Considers Racial Profiling
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Rep. Young taps campaign to pay aide's lawyers (AP)
AP - With an Election-year corruption investigation looming, Rep. Don Young has tapped his campaign war chest to pay not only his own million-dollar legal tab but also to hire lawyers for his campaign... Full Article At Yahoo! News - Politics
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Civil Rights Review: 07/03/08
Your morning roundup of Civil Rights and related news. The review will be off for July 4th, and will return to action Monday morning. TMV note: I still haven’t quite made a permanent decision on how I want to do this, but for now I think I... Full Article At The Moderate Voice
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Justice Department Considers Racial Profiling For Terror Prevention
The Justice Department is considering letting the FBI investigate Americans without any evidence of wrongdoing, relying instead on a terrorist profile that could single out Muslims, Arabs or other racial and ethnic groups. Law enforcement officials say the... Full Article At HuffingtonPost
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21st Century Law Enforcement at its Finest
by matttbastard Because the presumption of innocence is, like, so September 10th, dude: The Justice Department is considering letting the FBI investigate Americans without any evidence of wrongdoing, relying instead on a terrorist profile that could single... Full Article At bastard.logic
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AP IMPACT: Race profiling eyed for terror probes
The Justice Department is considering letting the FBI investigate Americans without any evidence of wrongdoing, relying instead on a terrorist profile that could single out Muslims, Arabs or other racial and ethnic groups. Law enforcement officials say the... Full Article At San Francisco Chronicle
Proposed FBI plan would authorize racial profiling
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Police, FBI search for North Side bank robber
Police and the FBI are searching for a man who robbed a North Side bank Thursday morning.... Full Article At Chicago Sun-Times
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FBI, Ga. authorities probe unsolved 1946 lynchings
Agents search property for clues to living suspects in four deaths Federal and state agents swarmed over the backyard of a modest white house in rural northeast Georgia this week in search of clues that could be linked to living suspects in the unsolved lynchings of four people in 1946.... Full Article At Baltimore Sun - National
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Use of profiling in terror fight eyed
WASHINGTON - The Justice Department could allow the FBI to investigate Americans without any evidence of wrongdoing, relying instead on a terrorist profile that could single out Muslims, Arabs, or other racial and ethnic groups.... Full Article At Boston Globe (National)
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Just when you thought it couldn't get any worse
Cross-posted on Right Michigan at www.RightMichigan.com . I swear, we could talk about a shocking new detail or a major new scandal out of Detroit every day for a year and we still won't have gotten to the bottom of all of the sludge (har) in the lefty Mecca. Today it's the Ivory Tower... Full Article At Redstate
FBI: Man arrested sought killer in '05
A McHenry County man arrested this week with puffer fish toxin was looking for a hit man a few years ago, the FBI says. Edward F. Bachner IV -- nabbed Monday after accepting a package of deadly tetrodotoxin -- was questioned by the ... Full Article At Chicago Sun-Times
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Ex-con arrested, suspected of murdering 8 in Ill., Mo.
GRANITE CITY, Ill. -- Police and FBI agents captured an ex-convict suspected of killing eight people in two states as he smoked a cigarette outside a southwestern Illinois bar Tuesday night, a bar employee said.... Full Article At Chicago Sun-Times