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How did the Taliban’s chief spokesman abroad end up a student at Yale? The New York Times Magazine has the story.
Posted on Feb 27, 2006
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The U.S. government pushes back at the search giant, insisting that a request to examine millions of Internet users’ search queries would not violate privacy rights. This could lead to the most fevered technology trial since the Microsoft antitrust case. Check out an excellent Truthdig essay on the issue here.
Posted on Feb 27, 2006
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Fresh off the controversy over companies selling your private phone records to third parties, UK companies will now track a user based on a cellphone signal. And a BBC reporter learns that it’s ridiculously easy to evade the companies’ abuse safeguards.
Posted on Feb 27, 2006
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Note to the Arizona senator: it’s not saying much to claim that a country is “freer than China.” As ThinkProgress reckons it, only about seven countries in the world are less free than China.
Posted on Feb 27, 2006
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The Tribune-Democrat of Johnstown, Pa., reports that the Fox News talk show host will appear at a fundraising breakfast with the Pennsylvania senator. Should we be surprised?
Posted on Feb 27, 2006
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In an excerpt from the book “Strategery,” to be published Monday, Karl Rove says the following of the former First Lady: “Anybody who thinks that she’s not going to be the candidate [in 2008] is kidding themselves.”
Posted on Feb 27, 2006
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The military contractor will get reimbursed for nearly all its disputed costs in connection with a $2.41-billion no-bid contract to deliver supplies to Iraq, despite the Pentagon’s findings that more than $250 million of that was “potentially excessive or unjustified.”
Posted on Feb 27, 2006
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The Iraqi army now has ZERO battalions capable of fighting the insurgency without U.S. support. (The one battle-worthy battalion that the White House was so proud of has been downgraded.)
Posted on Feb 27, 2006
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CBS reported in Sept. 2002 that the secretary of defense was pushing to invade Iraq barely five hours after 9/11. A blogger uses the Freedom of Information Act to publish the handwritten notes by a Defense Dept. staffer that gave rise to that story.
Posted on Feb 27, 2006
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Remember that Orwellian-sounding data-mining program that was supposed to have been shut down two years ago? Turns out it’s alive and functioning—just under a different name. The National Journal has the blockbuster scoop.
Posted on Feb 27, 2006
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The country seeking control over six U.S. ports donated nearly four times the total of all other countries combined. The State Department denies there’s a connection between the gift and the pending port deal.
Posted on Feb 25, 2006
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A legendary South African journalist calls himself “appalled” at the way America’s policies of wiretapping and torture are beginning to resemble those of apartheid Cape Town. (Video available.)
Posted on Feb 24, 2006
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