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An army court marshal convicted Chief Warrant Officer Lewis E. Welshofer of negligent homicide on January 22 for killing Abed Hamed Mowhoush, a former major general in the Iraqi military....

Caught spying on Americans, the Bush administration has begun a propaganda "blitz" to justify a secret program that we are told is for our own security. Of course, the program is so secret that Bush won't reveal any details and will only give a brief overview to a few loyal Congressional insiders. After a failed invasion of Iraq, botched rescue operations in New Orleans, and a Medicare drug program in total disarray, Bush officials want us to trust them to listen to our phone cal...

A few thoughts on FBI infiltrator "Anna's" posts....

As one of the U.S. Army's few Muslim chaplains, Capt. James Yee thought he was serving both God and country at Guantanamo Bay. But in September 2003, two days after receiving an excellent evaluation, Chaplain Yee was arrested, charged with espionage and thrown into solitary confinement for 76 days. When he left the Army in 2005 after all charges were dropped, he received a medal. He recounts his journey from Muslim American poster boy to Enemy of the State in his memoir, "For God and Cou...

On Tuesday, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales appeared at Georgetown Law School to deliver an address defending the NSA domestic spy programs. During the course of his address, nearly 30 students stood up one-by-one and turned their back on Gonzales in protest. A panel of law professors addressed Gonzales’ speech, calling it illegal. We play excerpts of Gonzales’ speech and law professor David Cole responding....

The Faces of Wrongful Conviction: a conference examining wrongful convictions and the administration of the death penalty in california...

The Bush administration has launched a public-relations offensive to defend the National Security Agency's eavesdropping on U.S. citizens without court warrants. We speak with James Bamford, author of several books on intelligence, including the first book ever written about the NSA. Bamford is also a plaintiff in an ACLU lawsuit that charges the spying program violates Americans' rights to free speech and privacy under the first and fourth amendments of the Constitution....

Are you concerned about government spying on peaceful protestors (including CODEPINK), wiretaps of phone calls without a court order, and FBI searches of personal records of people who are not suspected of any wrongdoing? So are we....

In a Martin Luther King Day speech at Constitution Hall Jan. 16, Al Gore drew cheers as he called for appointment of a special prosecutor to investigate George W. Bush’s “strongman” abuses of power, including spying on the American people and other impeachable offenses....

i am a long-time medic and received this from another trusted medic. it is also posted on portland indymedia. i am non-violent: this is posted so those who sought care from a sham medic may identify the provider and choose to seek a second opion should they so desire....