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Congressman Grayson sent the following letter to AIG's trustee: March 18, 2010 AIG Credit Facility Trust Trustee Peter A. Langerman Trustee Chester B. Feldberg Trustee Jill M. Considine Arnold & Porter LLP 399 Park Avenue New York, N...

In a bizarre, Soviet-style move, the White House has threatened to veto the intelligence budget unless everyone accepts the FBI frame up of Dr. Bruce Ivins.As Bloomberg writes: President Barack Obama probably would veto legislation authorizing the next...

The FBI says that the anthrax case is closed, and that they have proved that Dr. Bruce Ivins did it.But Congress is not convinced.On March 3, 2010, Representative Holt called for a new investigation:Last week, [Congressman Holt] succeeded in including ...

The Arizona Republic reports: Sen. John McCain of Arizona ... says he was misled by then-Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke. McCain said the ...

Security forces have been deployed at the Bakshi stadium here, the venue for the Republic Day parade Tuesday, and roads leading to it have been barricaded to thwart terror strikes. Heavily armed contingents of police and paramilitary Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) wearing bullet-proof jackets have taken over the Bakshi Stadium. Though ...

The Supreme Court has just ruled that four Guantanamo prisoners cannot sue the government for torture. The Center for Constitutional Rights notes:It is an awful day for the rule of law and common decency when the Supreme Court lets stand such an inhuma...

The House has passed a bill to audit the Federal Reserve. 79% of the American people support a full audit.In response, the Fed says that an audit would interfere with its "independence". However, the Constitution does not empower a central bank. And C...

On Thursday, President Obama said: We lose ourselves when we compromise the very ideals that we fight to defend.Presumably, complying with American and international law are some of the ideals that we fight to defend.Torture is a violation of both inte...

The top military commander in Afghanistan - Stanley McChrystal - says that getting Bin Laden is the key to defeating Al Qaeda.Getting Bin Laden sounds fine to me. But apparently the Bush administration couldn't have cared less about him.The oldest - ...

Ranchi: The second phase of Jharkhand elections began this morning for 14 seats. These seats are mostly situated in Naxal-hit areas and Maoists have announced to boycott the poll. Altogether 30,96,854 people are eligible to vote in Kodarma, Barhi, Mandu, Ramgarh, Gandey, Giridih, Dumri, Gomia, Tamar, Silli, Khijri, Mandar, Khunti and ...

Security measures have been stepped up in West Bengal, a day after bomb explosions rocked the neighbouring Assam state. The two blasts occurred in Nalbari town about 70 kilometres from the Assam’’s capital Dispur on Sunday, leaving six people killed and 40 others wounded Soon the state administration and the top ...

Emailed to me by a contact in Congress. November 18, 2009 ...

I received an advance copy of the Special Inspector General for Tarp's Report called "Factors Affecting Efforts to Limit Payments to AIG Counterparties", which will be released tomorrow (posted below).The report reveals that at least one counterparty ...

Security forces gunned down a top Naxal commander in Uttar Pradesh’’s Sonebhadra District on Monday. He was wanted in connection with thirty-two criminal cases in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, police said. Self-styled Maoist zonal commander Kamlesh Chowdhary, was trying to reactivate Naxalites in the Sonebhadra-Mirzapur region. He was gunned down during ...

PESHAWAR – At least four persons including a policeman were killed and five others got injured on Monday when a suicide bomber blew himself up near a police checkpoint here on Ring Road.Police and eyewitnesses informed TheNation that the suicide bomber got out ...

Financial insider and commentator Yves Smith wrote an essay last week entitled "MSM Reporting as Propaganda" arguing that the government has been using propaganda to make people think that things are getting better, no one is angry, and - therefore - ...

Ashraf Javed, Amraiz Khan and Jam Sajjad Hussain LAHORE - Military commandos, Pakistan Rangers personnel and police killed 10 terrorists who carried out three gun and bomb attacks simultaneously at the police, Elite force training centres and regional Headquarters of the Federal Investigations ...

Government leaders said that massive bailouts were necessary. Were they right?Bullying CongressThe New York Times wrote on July 16th:In retrospect, Congress felt bullied by Mr. Paulson last year. Many of them fervently believed they should not prop up...

Security forces in Jammu and Kashmir gunned down at least four militants, including a top Lashkar-e-Toiba commander in two separate gun battles on Wednesday. According to the police, in one of the encounters in the Ladoo forests region near Pampore town, 30 kilometres off Srinagar, one militant was killed and three ...

Scores of locals and admirers of late Francis Induwar, an Inspector of Jharkhand Police special branch, gathered in Ranchi city on Wednesday to pay their last respects to the intelligence officer killed by the Maoists. Induwar was buried with full state honours. Earlier, the state police found the decapitated body of the ...