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The Central Intelligence Agency gave House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., advanced warning before CIA Chief Leon Panetta sent a memo to employees at the spy agency that countered Pelosi's claim that the agency lied to Congress about waterboarding.

VP hopeful Palin attended 5 colleges in 6 years

Violates Military Uniform Code by wearing uniform while campaigning, Wears officer's uniform that does not match rank at which he retired HARRISBURG - Republican State Committee Executive Director Scott Migli today questioned Joe Sestak, Democratic candidate in Pennsylvania's 7th Congressional District, for his repeated violations of federal law and U.S. Navy regulations as it relates to appropriate conduct for the wearing of military uniforms. Those violations include wearing his uniform while engaged in campaign activities and wearing a uniform that displays a rank above what the grade at which he retired from service. "Joe Sestak's improper use of the military...

It's time India got angry and stopped all this 'bouncing back' nonsense By Amrit Dhillon in Bombay (Filed: 16/07/2006) A backlash against the authorities is taking hold in Bombay, five days after the bombings that killed 181 commuters and injured almost 900. There is a sense of anger and betrayal among those living in India's commercial capital that the state has failed to protect them from yet another terrorist attack. A Hindu demonstrator expresses his anger "Blood has become cheaper than water," said Atul Pataonde, a shopkeeper in the Bandra district. "These bombs keep happening but nothing changes." To many...

If we've got a missile, let's fire it into George Bush's window, say N Koreans Sergey Soukhorukov in Pyongyang and Colin Freeman (Filed: 25/06/2006) In a land where anti-Western propaganda is the norm, one might have expected a triumphant state broadcast - or, perhaps, a rallying denunciation of "American lies". But last week, as North Korea created a diplomatic storm over claims that it was preparing to test fire a missile that could hit the United States, television sets in Pyongyang were tuned into a rather different drama. North Koreans have long been urged to hate the United States Instead...

Think Pompeii got hit hard? Worse eruptions lurk By Maggie Fox, Health and Science Correspondent Mon Mar 6, 5:03 PM ET WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- The preserved footprints and abandoned homes of villagers who fled a giant eruption of Mount Vesuvius 3,800 years ago show the volcano could destroy modern-day Naples with little warning, Italian and U.S. researchers reported on Monday. The eruption buried entire villages as far as 15 miles (25 kilometres) from the volcano, cooking people as they tried to escape and dumping several feet (metres) of ash and mud. New excavations show far more extensive damage than that...

<p>Monday, February 20th - Guest: Iraqi General, Georges Sada. General Sada's book, "Saddam's Secrets" will be the topic of discussion. Scheduled for 10:00am mountain (noon ET) on the Mike Rosen show at 850am KOA from here in Denver. This will be a rare opportunity to call in and ask a question of this particular guest.</p>

Third officer this year to face charges; Johnson accused of molesting girl, 15 A Columbus police officer was charged Saturday night with sexually abusing a teenage girl. Bruce Anthony Johnson, 41, of 1050 Farr Road, was charged with aggravated child molestation, aggravated sodomy, statutory rape, enticing a child for indecent purposes and two counts of furnishing alcohol to a minor. He is scheduled to appear in court this morning. Columbus Police Chief Ricky Boren said the investigation began Friday afternoon, and the allegations involved a 15-year-old girl. "We started the investigation Friday afternoon, and the investigation continued until Saturday evening...

MacRanger (who is-Former Career Military (logistics, intelligence) reports: Early today I watched the 'Spector House' Able Danger hearings on CSPAN. I watched closely, because at 8am, my cell was buzzing, a call from a friend. I had asked him to get some clarification on Shaffer's story that Rummy told 'em not to testify. The word I got from him was that contrary to popular knowledge, Rummy didn't pull the plug on the witnesses, it came from "Cobweb", which is just a little - OK, a lot higher up the chain. Here's what I know. Spector is being "allowed" this little...

UK terrorists got cash from Saudi Arabia before 7/7 By Toby Harnden in Riyadh and Andrew Alderson (Filed: 07/08/2005) Two senior al-Qaeda operatives in Saudi Arabia made money transfers and used coded text messages to communicate with suspected terrorists in Britain before last month's attacks in London, according to officials in the kingdom. The two men, of Moroccan descent, have since been shot dead. Younis Mohammed Ibrahim al-Hayari, allegedly al-Qaeda's leader in Saudi Arabia, was killed in Riyadh three weeks ago and Abdel Karim al-Mejati died in a shoot-out in the central al-Qassim region in April. Prince Turki al-Faisal, Saudi...

Pakistani politician got paid £1,000 a month in UK benefits By Daniel Foggo and Massoud Ansari (Filed: 12/06/2005) A prominent Pakistani politician has been receiving British state benefits to which he was not entitled while living in a palatial home in Karachi. As the governor of Sindh province in Pakistan, Dr Ishrat-Ul-Ebad Khan lives in a mansion in the state capital while being waited on by servants and chauffeured in Mercedes limousines. Dr Ishrat-Ul-Ebad Khan Yet, while enjoying the perks of his position, Dr Khan was for 10 months the recipient of money from the benefits system, including income support...

A teenager was back in class Friday after receiving a one-day suspension for wearing a T-shirt with slogans including "freedom of expression" and "don't drink and drive" that school administrators considered disruptive. Hanna Smith, 18, a junior at Tift County High School, said principal Mike Duck told her that if she wore the shirt again she would be suspended for the remainder of the year. The principal was arrested six years ago for DUI and running a stop sign, the Tifton Gazette said Friday in a story on Smith's suspension. Duck made a public apology for the DUI and was...

Now, I got one more thing on this Social Security business. Apparently some people misunderstood what I said when recently discussing the program. I never said that the first recipients didn't get any benefits. What I said was the first recipients didn't pay into the system or very much. The first recipients of Social Security were pretty much near retirement age or were at retirement age when FDR introduced the program. They were the real, true beneficiaries of this program. That's when it took 16 workers to pay the taxes for those people that had not put anything in the...

This X-ray image shows the four inch nail that a construction worker from Colorado., accidentally fired through his mouth and into his head with a nail gun on Jan. 6. The worker didn't realize what had happened, though the nail plunged 1 1/2 inches into his brain. Six days later he went to the dentist for what he thought was a toothache, and the X-ray revealed the nail. He is expected to be released from the hospital Jan. 20. He is uninsured and is unsure how he will pay his 100,000-plus medical bill. 

Thai Boy Victimized Once Again By Adoptive Couple (Los Angeles) In April 2000, many international news organizations covered the story of 2 year old Thai toddler, Phanupong Khaisri, as one of child human trafficking that produced a victimized little boy, 3 years of legal action against the Clinton Administration Justice Department and Immigration and Naturalization Service, years of dedicated love and care by Los Angeles area caretakers and volunteers, a Bush Administration receptive to saving the little boy’s life, the very first issuance of a “Trafficking Visa”, and an adoption by a local married couple. Everything in young Phanupong Khaisri’s...

Tip O'Neill once said that all politics is local. Denise Majette's defeat of Cynthia McKinney is a true case in point. While McKinney's father, state Rep. Billy McKinney (D-Atlanta) and other anti-Semites would like to blame "the J-E-W-S" for the loss, Cynthia McKinney has no one to blame but herself. No amount of creative scapegoating can erase the simple fact that the voters of the 4th Congressional District chose Majette because McKinney did not represent us effectively. McKinney chose to divide us --- not to unite us. Nor can anything change the fact that many of McKinney's traditional supporters chose...

Murder trial Briton says Americans 'got what they deserved' The Briton on trial for murdering Daniel Pearl has said Americans got what they deserved on September 11 and chillingly warned: "There is more to come."Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh said the killing of civilians by US forces in Afghanistan and Israeli operations in Palestinian areas would fuel militant anger toward Americans. As his lawyers completed their final arguments in a Pakistani court, Saeed gave them a message. It read: "Following the barbaric bombardment of a wedding ceremony in Afghanistan in which a number of innocent women and children were killed, and...