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By GEOFFREY R. STONE

THE so-called Shield bill, which was recently introduced in both houses of Congress in response to the WikiLeaks disclosures, would amend the Espionage Act of 1917 to make it a crime for any person knowingly and willfully to disseminate, "in any manner prejudicial to the safety or interest of the United States," any classified information "concerning the human intelligence activities of the United States."

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27249.htm



Lawyer for Assange Accusers Has Ties to CIA and Torture

A lawyer for the accusers in the case of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has ties to the CIA and torture in the post-9/11 period, according to a 2009 report in Europe.

http://bit.ly/g0eixp



Wikileaks volunteer detained and searched (again) by US agents

Jacob Appelbaum, a volunteer with Wikileaks, was detained, searched, and questioned by the US Customs and Border Patrol agents at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport on January 10, upon re-entering the US after a vacation in Iceland.

http://www.boingboing.net/2011/01/12/wikileaks-volunteer-1.html


From Information Clearing House



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By Jim Cason

Remote control killings by unmanned drones in Pakistan aren't making our country more secure.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27251.htm



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Poli-Tea
by d.eris

01/11/11

As Democrats and Republicans happily continue to play their game of partisan political ping-pong with the Tucson massacre, perhaps the most unwittingly ironic assertion is that which claims the assassin's act has little or nothing to do with mainstream politics because the assassin himself is clearly a deranged and mentally disturbed individual. It is by means of this precise argument that the deranged and disturbed proponents of the Democratic and Republican parties seek to wash their hands of the bloody affair after first attempting to wipe them clean with the other side's dirty laundry...

http://tinyurl.com/482wql3



The politicization of a crime

Strike The Root
by Michael Kleen

01/12/10

If the grave wounding of Representative Gabrielle Giffords and the murder of U.S. District Judge John Roll and five others was not political when the shots were fired, it soon became so. ... The effort to use this crime to score political points is an offense to common decency and underscores the decay of political life in the United States...

http://www.strike-the-root.com/politicization-of-crime



Same as the old boss?

John Stossel's Take
by John Stossel

01/12/11

So the Republicans took control of Congress. New House Speaker John Boehner declared that 'our spending has caught up with us ... No longer can we kick the can down the road.' He's right about that. Thanks to runaway spending during the last two administrations, the debt our government owes investors now stands at 62% of GDP. But is there any reason to believe that Republicans will reverse the trend? Will this group be more responsible that the previous bunch? I hope so. But I?m skeptical...

http://tinyurl.com/6gvnxkx


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/01/12



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http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/01/12-3



Sarah speaks, again

Truth to Power
by James Mann

01/12/11

Sarah Palin has yet again released a statement on the Arizona shootings, this time in hopes of deflecting any blame from herself, and to again question the allegiance to the state of anyone who dares to disagree with her or tie her insipid, anti-American views to the actions of a madman. But she needn?t have bothered, because she made her most honest statement when she removed within hours the target map from her website. That?s all you need to know about Sarah Palin...

http://blogs.ink19.com/truthtopower/archives/9074


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Nadia Prupis, Truthout: "House Republicans have renamed several Congressional committees by changing or removing certain hot-button words such as 'civil rights' and 'labor' from their titles. The Education and Labor Committee became the Education and Workforce Committee, while the Subcommittee on Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties is set to be renamed the Constitution Subcommittee."

http://www.truth-out.org/house-republicans-remove-civil-rights-and-labor-from-committee-names66764



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Dahr Jamail and Erika Blumenfeld, Truthout: "In October 2010, Truthout tested several water and soil samples from the Gulf of Mexico for chemicals in BP's crude oil and toxic dispersants. One sample of dead marine life was also tested. Truthout also obtained and had analyzed a sample of pure Corexit 9500, one of the toxic dispersants used to sink the crude oil. The dispersants BP has used in the Gulf of Mexico are banned in at least 19 other countries. BP has used at least 1.9 million gallons of the dispersants in the Gulf of Mexico to sink their 4.9 million barrels of crude oil. The samples were tested in a private lab via gas chromatography by an analyst who requested anonymity."

http://www.truth-out.org/the-tragic-state-gulf-mexico-sampling-reveals-oil-and-dispersants-mississippi-coast66726

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Diary of a Disaster: 6 Months in the Gulf
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/01/12-11



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Mother Jones
by Nick Baumann

01/11/11

The Obama administration released Bush-era legal opinions authorizing torture. Will it make public its own rationale for targeting US citizens for death?

http://motherjones.com/politics/2011/01/obama-drone-memo-dilemma


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Gun Crazy: From NRA Glocks to Predator Drones
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/01/12-7



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