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The Fishwrap of Record has finally seen fit to tell its readers about the latest ACORN scandals (the San Bernardino tapes, which don’t get a mention, are beyond belief). True to form, the New York Times commits grievous sins of omission that whitewash the paper’s own role in deliberately covering up ACORN’s illicit activities before Election Day last November. The Times article by Scott Shane casts the ACORN stings as a purely partisan game: “Conservatives Draw Blood From Acorn, Favored Foe.”

LONDON (AFP) – The head of Britain's foreign intelligence service said Monday his agents were not involved in torture, amid allegations of British links to mistreatment of terror suspects held overseas. The head of MI6, John Scarlett, said his officers were committed to human rights and democracy as they protected Britain against terrorism threats. "Our officers are as committed to the values and the human rights values of liberal democracy as anybody else," Sir John told BBC's Radio 4 in comments posted on its website Monday. "They also have the responsibility of protecting the country against terrorism and these issues...

MEXICO CITY: US lawyers for a former altar boy plan to grill Mexico’s top Roman Catholic clergyman next month as part of an effort to sue him in a California court over claims he protected a suspected pedophile priest. Cardinal Norberto Rivera faces an Aug 8 deposition in Mexico City, one of the world’s largest Catholic dioceses, Jeffrey Anderson, the plaintiff’s lawyer, said on Tuesday. Rivera and Los Angeles Cardinal Roger Mahony are named in a US civil suit filed by Joaquin Aguilar Mendez in Los Angeles. Mendez says a priest named Nicolas Aguilar raped him in Mexico in 1994...

ANDERSEN AIR FORCE BASE, Guam, Feb. 14, 2007 – The Iranian government is complicit in improvised-explosive-device attacks on coalition and Iraqi forces, Marine Gen. Peter Pace said today in Jakarta, Indonesia. However, he said, officials are unsure what level of Iranian government is part of this complicity. Pace, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, is visiting U.S. Pacific Command areas. As Pace spoke to leaders at the National Institute of Resilience, the Indonesian senior military college, leaders at the institute asked him about proof that Iran is sponsoring IED attacks in Iraq and supporting Shiite terrorist groups....

Once again, ‘the official government story’ is leaking like a colander. I just read the August 12th ‘Kean-Hamilton statement on ABLE DANGER’ from the 9/11 Commission…henceforth to be referred to as ‘Commission CYA Addendum (Revised)’. Recently two separate groups of 9/11 widows articulated their shock and horror that the 9/11 Commission ignored significant and critical evidence. Duh! Hell-o? The 9/11 Commission’s decision to flat out ignore testimony that military intelligence had identified Mohamed Atta and Marwan al-Shehhi in 1999 as terrorist threats already in the U.S. but was specifically ordered not to tell the FBI suffers an adequate adjectives to...

More Of The Same Monday January 10, 7:00 pm ET Ibd Politics: Sen. Hillary Clinton's former finance director has been indicted for filing false reports on campaign fund-raising activities. Why are we not surprised? As anyone who lived through the 1990s knows, the Clinton White House showed an unwillingness to play by the rules, especially in the artful practice of political fund raising. Think back to Al Gore's "no controlling legal authority" excuse for making fund-raising phone calls from federal property while serving as vice president. Or to the apparent laundering of Clinton-Gore contributions at a Buddhist temple fund-raiser that...

A few weeks ago I sent Texas Senator John Cornyn an e-mail asking him what he was going to try to do about steming the tide of illegal immigration. I received a reply recently and I thought I'd share his non-answer… My e-mail… Every day more and more illegal aliens cross over our southern border and find their way to cities across the USA. In clear violation of US immigration laws. Some people argue that illegal aliens are coming here to help us, to take jobs that "no one else will take." Well I'm telling you that is an outright...