It looks like Publicis Groupe-owned ad shop Leo Burnett Worldwide is about to make an aquisition in China, according to Reuters, but Chairman Tom Bernardin remains tight lipped about who exactly is getting brought into the corporate fold. "You might see one next week," Bernardin told Reuters in an interview...
ACLU files suit over alleged spying by state police In a federal lawsuit filed Thursday, the American Civil Liberties Union of Maryland is attempting to find out to what extent, if any, the Maryland State Police is infiltrating and spying on peace protestor...
In a federal lawsuit filed Thursday, the American Civil Liberties Union of Maryland is attempting to find out to what extent, if any, the Maryland State Police is infiltrating and spying on peace protestor groups. During the criminal trial of two war protestors...
Byline: Jonah Bloom The tragic death of Paul Tilley last week triggered one of the ugliest, most narcissistic displays I've seen from the ad industry. Instead of remembering the man, or doing the inevitable soul-searching about why a 40-year-old who...
City Council Meeting to Begin at 6:30 p.m. in West Hollywood Park Auditorium WHAT: West Hollywood Mayor John Duran and West Hollywood Councilmember Abbe Land held a news conference this...
The police have been called in after it emerged in court documents that the weapons manufacturer BAE Systems paid a private investigation agency to spy on a peace campaigning group. BAE paid [pound]2,500 per month to LigneDeux Associates, whose agent Paul Mercer passed information about the...
CAIRO Egyptian authorities have charged a nuclear engineer at the state's Atomic Energy Agency with spying for Israel, along with two fugitive foreigners: an Irishman and a Japanese, a government spokesman said yesterday. Mohamed Sayed Saber Ali is suspected of taking documents from one of Egypt's small research reactors and...
Central Intelligence Agency Spies Class 11: Inside the CIA's First Post-9/11 Spy Class. T. J. Waters. New York: Dutton, 2006. 299 pp. $24.95. "After 9/11, the utter lack of useful human intelligence was suddenly seen as a huge hole in our...
The Bush administration claims to have sweeping, inherent, and unchecked war powers to conduct its war against terror. These claims are inconsistent with the text of the Constitution, the Framers' intent, and the practice of the early leaders of the Republic. Judicial decisions in the first few...
WASHINGTON AFP — A White House aide testified in court Thursday that Vice President Dick Cheney personally led the 2003 effort to discredit Iraq war critic Joseph Wilson. Deputy White House communications director Cathie Martin was giving evidence in the politically sensitive perjury trial of former top White...
One of Britain's richest men has been jailed for hiring a private detective agency whose services included bugging telephone conversations, hacking into computers, and obtaining private medical and banking records. Adrian Kirby, a waste-disposal tycoon from Haselmere, Surrey, worth an estimated [pound]65m, was jailed for six...
This essay is adapted from a lecture at Hannah Arendt: Right Now, a conference co-sponsored by the NYU Institute for the Humanities and the Humanities Council at NYU, in December 2006. I have a personal relationship to Hannah Arendt, while never...
SINCE 9-11, there have been numerous attempts to "fix" the U.S. intelligence apparatus. First, President Bush established the Terrorism Threat Integration Center TTIC, which was supposed to help coordinate analysis among the intelligence community's multiple players. Before that had time to coalesce, however,...
WASHINGTON AFP — A top US senator took the FBI to task, accusing the federal agency of spying on groups opposed to the war in Iraq. Senator Patrick Leahy, a Vermont Democrat, complained that there was "evidence" the federal agency was monitoring peace groups, including the Thomas Merton...
With great fanfare the other day, Oprah Winfrey asked James Frey a question that mainstream journalists refuse to ask George W. Bush: "Why would you lie?" Many pundits and news outlets have chortled at the televised unmasking of Frey as a liar. The reverberations have spanned from schlock media...
ON December 20, after a speech in Boston, Sen. John Kerry was asked to comment on two leaks that have consumed Washington in recent months: the revelation that President Bush authorized the National Security Agency to spy on the international phone calls of people with known al-Qaeda...
What has become of the Constitution? So, Charles Krauthammer, in yet another glaring example of his infinite wisdom, states that it's okee dokee for the executive branch of the U.S. government to instruct the National Security Agency to spy on thousands of American citizens...
Norrell, BrendaIndian Country Today Lakota Times12-28-2005NEW YORK -- With the exposure that the National Security Agency spied onordinary Americans without warrants, the American Civil Liberties Unionreleased documents revealing spying on political and religious groups."Requiring a judge to approve a wiretap is not a nicety that can be avoidedby presidential decree...
On Dec. 19, Jay Evensen, the editorial page editor, wrote, "The comforting part of the New York Times disclosure last week that President Bush secretly authorized the National Security Agency to spy on Americans is that the story was published at all." Then four paragraphs later he...
NEW YORK, Dec. 18 Kyodo Selected editorial excerpts from the U.S. press: THIS CALL MAY BE MONITORED... (The New York Times, New York) On Oct. 17, 2002, the head of the National Security Agency, Lt. Gen. Michael Hayden, made an eloquent plea to...
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