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  • Inhofe Says He Will Call for Investigation on "Climategate" (UN IPCC included!!)

    11/23/2009 10:22:42 AM PST · by milwguy · 111 replies · 4,266+ views
    senate.gov ^ | 11/23/2009 | senate.gov
    Senator Inhofe: Well, on this thing, it is pretty serious. And since, you know, Barabara Boxer is the Chairman and I’m the Ranking Member on Environment and Public Works, if nothing happens in the next seven days when we go back into session a week from today that would change this situation, I will call for an investigation. ‘Cause this thing is serious, you think about the literally millions of dollars that have been thrown away on some of this stuff that they came out with. Melanie Morgan: So what will you be calling for an investigation of? Senator Inhofe:...
  • Levin: May be more troubling emails from Hasan

    11/20/2009 7:25:34 PM PST · by reaganaut1 · 12 replies · 622+ views
    Associated Press ^ | November 20, 2009 | Pamela Hess and Anne Gearan
    There may be additional e-mails that could have tipped off law enforcement or military officials to the Fort Hood shooter before he went on his deadly rampage, the chairman of the Senate Armed Forces Committee said Friday. The U.S. government intercepted at least 18 e-mails between Hasan and Anwar al-Awlaki, a radical American-born cleric. They were passed along to two Joint Terrorism Task Force cells led by the FBI, but a senior defense official said no one at the Defense Department knew about the messages until after the shootings. The official spoke on condition of anonymity in order to discuss...
  • Levin: Fort Hood Probe May Reveal More E-mails [Oh Noes!]

    11/20/2009 5:25:41 PM PST · by BunnySlippers · 6 replies · 383+ views
    AP/Google ^ | 11/21/09 | PAMELA HESS and ANNE GEARAN
    There may be additional e-mails that could have tipped off law enforcement or military officials to the Fort Hood shooter before he went on his deadly rampage, the chairman of the Senate Armed Forces Committee said Friday. SNIP The Pentagon wrote regulations on "dissident and protest activities" in response to soldier participation in skinhead and other racially motivated hate groups. The current rules were written in 1996 and last updated in 2003. The rules prohibit membership or participation in "organizations that espouse supremacist causes," seek to discriminate based on race, religion or other factors or advocate force or violence. Commanders...
  • Obama gets delay of Fort Hood probe

    11/18/2009 2:49:48 AM PST · by Mount Athos · 15 replies · 649+ views
    washington times ^ | S.A. Miller
    The Obama administration on Tuesday had the president's National Security Council take control of congressional briefings on the Fort Hood killings and asked Democratic leaders to delay a probe, as top Republicans said intelligence shortcomings blamed for failing to prevent the 9/11 attacks are re-emerging. Rep. Silvestre Reyes, chairman of the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, said that the NSC had taken over the briefings "due to the high visibility of the issues surrounding the tragic event at Fort Hood," and that Democratic leaders agreed to postpone any congressional action on the shootings. But Rep. Peter Hoekstra of Michigan, the...
  • Sen. Sessions blasts Justice Department for mixing politics into Ft. Hood inquest

    11/17/2009 9:41:19 PM PST · by pissant · 12 replies · 458+ views
    The Hill ^ | 11/18/09 | Sue Crabtree
    Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) is questioning the motive behind what he sees as the Justice Department’s reluctance to provide information about the Fort Hood massacre to congressional investigators. Sessions said he talked last week to Attorney General Eric Holder, who told him that the Justice Department and the FBI could not provide information to Senate investigators because it could hinder the prosecution of Maj. Nidal Hasan, the alleged gunman accused of killing 13 people at the sprawling Army base in Texas. Sessions, the top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee and also a member of the Armed Services panel, believes...
  • Senate Committee Postpones Fort Hood Hearing At Request of White House

    11/16/2009 4:07:01 PM PST · by 444Flyer · 50 replies · 1,181+ views
    Foxnews.com ^ | 11-16-09 | Staff
    The Senate Armed Services Committee postponed its Monday briefing on the deadly Fort Hood massacre at the request of the White House -- despite calls from some lawmakers to press forward with a congressional investigation into the shooting rampage that killed 13 and wounded 29. The Senate Armed Services Committee postponed its Monday briefing on the deadly Fort Hood massacre at the behest of the White House, despite calls from some lawmakers to press forward with a congressional investigation into the shooting rampage that killed 13 and wounded 29. An aide to committee chairman Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., told Fox...
  • Obama to Congress: Back off the Hasan probe

    11/15/2009 1:14:26 PM PST · by SeekAndFind · 39 replies · 1,294+ views
    Hotair ^ | 11/15/2009 | Ed Morrissey
    In the aftermath of the massacre at Fort Hood and the deaths of fourteen people, some members of Congress demanded investigations into why the Army and the FBI failed to identify and stop Major Nidal Malik Hasan before he had an opportunity to commit mass murder. Some of the revelations from Hasan’s past, including communications with an al-Qaeda recruiter in Yemen, have Rep. Pete Hoekstra and Sen. Joe Lieberman promising to conduct separate investigations into the failure of counterterrorism efforts. President Obama warned Congress to stay out of it, at least until the FBI finishes investigating the shootings: President Barack...
  • Obama urges Congress to put off Ft. Hood probe

    11/15/2009 3:19:02 AM PST · by Scanian · 48 replies · 1,377+ views
    NY Post ^ | November 14, 2009 | AP
    WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama on Saturday urged Congress to hold off on any investigation of the Fort Hood rampage until federal law enforcement and military authorities have completed their probes into the shootings at the Texas Army post, which left 13 people dead. On an eight-day Asia trip, Obama turned his attention home and pleaded for lawmakers to “resist the temptation to turn this tragic event into the political theater.” He said those who died on the nation’s largest Army post deserve justice, not political stagecraft. “The stakes are far too high,” Obama said in a video and Internet...
  • Hoekstra: White House Blocking Investigation of Fort Hood Massacre

    11/10/2009 6:52:43 PM PST · by TribalPrincess2U · 54 replies · 2,232+ views
    newsmax ^ | Tuesday, November 10, 2009 8:01 PM | By: Jim Meyers
    Rep. Pete Hoekstra, the top Republican on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, tells Newsmax that the White House intervened to keep him from obtaining critical information regarding the Fort Hood murders.
  • Sources: Pentagon worker investigated Hasan last year, found nothing amiss

    11/10/2009 3:48:21 PM PST · by Free ThinkerNY · 24 replies · 597+ views
    Hot Air ^ | Nov. 10, 2009 | Allahpundit
    I think this is new information, but honestly, the sheer volume of missed red flags has led me to lose track. We already knew that the FBI shrugged off Hasan’s e-mails to jihadbot preacher Aulaqi, but did we know that a Pentagon investigator operating as part of the joint terrorism task force did the same thing? If we didn’t, we do now. Two officials speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the case on the record said the Washington-based joint terrorism task force overseen by the FBI was notified of communications between Hasan and a...
  • Black Lawmakers under Ethics Spotlight (Are seven investigations too many in Pelosi's House?)

    11/09/2009 3:36:42 PM PST · by Libloather · 6 replies · 351+ views
    New America Media ^ | 11/09/09 | Zenitha Prince
    Black Lawmakers under Ethics SpotlightWashington AFRO Zenitha Prince Posted: Nov 09, 2009 November 8, 2009) - Are seven investigations too many to be a coincidence? All seven of the full-scale ethics investigations currently underway in the U.S. House of Representatives are focused on African-American lawmakers—and it would be eight if the committee conducting the investigations hadn’t deferred to the Justice Department’s investigation involving Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. The disparity is beginning to raise some eyebrows. “I don’t think they (Black lawmakers) are scared—they’re upset. They think [Congressional Black Caucus] members are being singled out,” Rep. Elijah Cummings, former chairman of...
  • Muslim Coalition Calls for Probe Into FBI Shooting Death of Mich. Muslim

    11/08/2009 6:05:21 PM PST · by presidio9 · 18 replies · 503+ views
    Reuters ^ | Fri Oct 30, 2009
    The American Muslim Taskforce on Civil Rights and Elections (AMT), a coalition of major national Islamic organizations, is calling for an independent investigation into the death of Imam Luqman Ameen Abdullah, who was shot and killed by the FBI on Wednesday in Detroit during raids in which a number of individuals were arrested on charges unrelated to terrorism. AMT is also calling on the FBI not to link the raids or the allegations against the suspects to the Islamic faith. In a statement, the Muslim coalition said: "It is imperative that an independent investigation of Imam Luqman Ameen Abdullah's death...
  • Lieberman: Senate to investigate Ft. Hood shooting

    11/08/2009 4:25:01 PM PST · by Free ThinkerNY · 35 replies · 702+ views
    Associated Press ^ | Nov. 8, 2009 | ALLEN G. BREED
    FORT HOOD, Texas (AP) - A key U.S. senator called Sunday for an investigation into whether the Army missed signs that the man accused of opening fire at Fort Hood had embraced an increasingly extremist view of Islamic ideology. Sen. Joe Lieberman's call came as word surfaced that Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan apparently attended the same Virginia mosque as two Sept. 11 hijackers in 2001, at a time when a radical imam preached there. Whether Hasan, an Army psychiatrist, associated with the hijackers is something the FBI will probably look into, according to a law enforcement official who spoke on...
  • Preliminary Fort Hood Inquiry Turns Up No Link to Terror Plot

    11/07/2009 6:10:30 PM PST · by reaganaut1 · 60 replies · 1,239+ views
    New York Times ^ | November 8, 2009 | David Johnston and Eric Schmitt
    After two days of investigation into the mass shooting at Fort Hood, investigators have tentatively concluded that the attack was not part of a terrorist plot. Rather, they have come to believe that Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, the Army psychiatrist accused in the shootings, acted out under a welter of emotional, ideological and religious pressures, according to interviews with federal officials who have been briefed on the inquiry. Investigators have not ruled out the possibility that Major Hasan believed he was carrying out an extremist’s suicide mission. But the investigators, working with behavioral experts, suggested that he may have long...
  • Democrats' Ethics Targeted by GOP

    11/06/2009 5:03:42 PM PST · by Sub-Driver · 8 replies · 385+ views
    Democrats' Ethics Targeted by GOP By BRODY MULLINS Republicans are seizing on newly revealed ethics probes of congressional Democrats ahead of next year's midterm elections, accusing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her colleagues of failing to make good on their pledge to clean up Washington when they regained control of Congress. None of the Democratic lawmakers under investigation by the House Ethics Committee is expected to lose in 2010. And ethics concerns are usually less important to voters than pocketbook issues. But Republican campaign strategists say ethics issues rumbling under the surface could help the GOP pick up a few...
  • EDITORIAL: Old-school corruption--House Democrats' ethics problem

    11/01/2009 2:53:00 PM PST · by jazusamo · 11 replies · 486+ views
    The Washington Times ^ | November 2, 2009 | Editorial
    Before taking control of the House, Speaker Nancy Pelosi said, "Democrats intend to lead the most honest, most open, and most ethical Congress in history." However, with dozens of mostly Democratic lawmakers and various staff under investigation by the House's twin ethics bodies, the majority clearly values political power over clean government. House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Rep. Charles B. Rangel, 20-term New York Democrat, and Defense Appropriations subcommittee Chairman Rep. John P. Murtha, 19-term Pennsylvania Democrat, are the poster children for how failed ethics cops protect old-guard lawmakers. While under investigation by the ethics committee, they continue to...
  • Dozens of House Members Scrutinized, Report Shows

    10/31/2009 12:10:04 PM PDT · by unixfox · 13 replies · 666+ views
    Associated Press ^ | Oct. 30, 2009 | LARRY MARGASAK
    WASHINGTON (AP) - Dozens of lawmakers have drawn scrutiny from their ethics monitor this year for everything from financial dealings to travel and campaign donations, according to a leaked account showing an active House panel secretly at work.
  • Congressional Ethics Report Leaked, Reveals Names

    10/30/2009 6:13:37 AM PDT · by Abathar · 70 replies · 4,376+ views
    AP/theindychannel.com ^ | 10/30/09 | LARRY MARGASAK
    WASHINGTON -- Internal investigations into the conduct of several House members have been exposed in an extraordinary, Internet-era breach of security involving the secretive process by which Congress polices lawmaker ethics. Revelations of the mostly preliminary inquiries by the House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct -- also known as the Ethics committee -- shook the chamber as lawmakers were immersed in a series of scheduled votes Thursday. The panel announced that it was probing two California Democrats -- Reps. Maxine Waters and Laura Richardson -- even as its embarrassed leaders took pains to explain that several other lawmakers also...
  • Dozens In Congress Under Ethics Inquiry

    10/30/2009 1:18:01 PM PDT · by khnyny · 18 replies · 950+ views
    The Washington Post ^ | October 30, 2009 | Ellen Nakashima and Paul Kane
    House ethics investigators have been scrutinizing the activities of more than 30 lawmakers and several aides in inquiries about issues including defense lobbying and corporate influence peddling, according to a confidential House ethics committee report prepared in July. The report appears to have been inadvertently placed on a publicly accessible computer network, and it was provided to The Washington Post by a source not connected to the congressional investigations. The committee said Thursday night that the document was released by a low-level staffer. The ethics committee is one of the most secretive panels in Congress, and its members and staff...
  • Lawmakers targeted in ethics probe

    10/30/2009 11:36:46 AM PDT · by Free ThinkerNY · 6 replies · 407+ views
    politico.com ^ | Oct. 30, 2009 | JOHN BRESNAHAN
    A leaked document shows that House ethics investigators are probing the activities of nearly three dozen lawmakers — an ethical dust storm that will empower the Republicans and could imperil efforts to get health care reform through the House next week. The House ethics committee said Thursday that it was opening two new investigations — one into the foreclosure scandal of Rep. Laura Richardson (D-Calif.) and one involving financial questions about Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) and her husband. But shortly after the committee met, chairs Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.) and Jo Bonner (R-Ala.) interrupted proceedings on the House floor to say...
  • Dozens in Congress under ethics inquiry (secret investigation leaked)

    10/30/2009 4:19:14 AM PDT · by TigerLikesRooster · 22 replies · 1,515+ views
    WP ^ | 10/30/09 | Ellen Nakashima and Paul Kane
    Dozens in Congress under ethics inquiry AN ACCIDENTAL DISCLOSURE Document was found on file-sharing network By Ellen Nakashima and Paul Kane Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, October 30, 2009 House ethics investigators have been scrutinizing the activities of more than 30 lawmakers and several aides in inquiries about issues including defense lobbying and corporate influence peddling, according to a confidential House ethics committee report prepared in July. The report appears to have been inadvertently placed on a publicly accessible computer network, and it was provided to The Washington Post by a source not connected to the congressional investigations. The committee...
  • Report: Dozens in Congress Under Ethics Scrutiny [Murtha Included!]

    10/29/2009 11:30:09 PM PDT · by Steelfish · 13 replies · 587+ views
    FoxNews ^ | October 29th 2009
    Report: Dozens in Congress Under Ethics Scrutiny Nearly half the members of a House panel in control of Pentagon spending, including Rep. John Murtha, are under scrutiny by ethics investigators in Congress, according to a leaked report October 30, 2009 WASHINGTON -- Nearly half the members of a House panel in control of Pentagon spending are under scrutiny by ethics investigators in Congress, The Washington Post reported Friday, citing a leaked confidential House ethics committee report. Investigations by two separate ethics offices include an examination of Rep. John Murtha, D-Pa.,chairman of the appropriations subcommittee on defense, and six other lawmakers...
  • Ethics panel to probe Reps. Maxine Waters, Laura Richardson

    10/29/2009 7:20:27 PM PDT · by NormsRevenge · 25 replies · 1,014+ views
    Politico.com ^ | 10/29/09 | John Bresnan
    The House ethics committee has voted to begin full-scale investigations into ethics allegations against Democratic Reps. Maxine Waters (Calif.) and Laura Richardson (Calif.), but decided against investigating Rep. Sam Graves (R-Mo.). After Thursday’s votes, Reps. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.) and Jo Bonner (R-Ala.), chairwoman and ranking member of the committee, went to the House floor to assure members that a cyber-hacking incident – which apparently resulted, they said, in an internal panel document ending up in the hands of the Washington Post – did not signal a major security breach of the committee’s computer system. They suggested that the document in...
  • Two Dems join GOP in calling for Countrywide investigation

    10/24/2009 3:52:27 AM PDT · by Scanian · 7 replies · 410+ views
    The American Thinker ^ | October 23, 2009 | Rick Moran
    Susan Crabtree of The Hill has the scoop: "Two junior Democrats are urging their leaders to open an investigation into the Countrywide VIP mortgage program. Rep. Paul Hodes (N.H.), who is in his second House term, and freshman Rep. Mike Quigley (Ill.) called on the House Oversight and Government Reform panel to initiate an investigation into Countrywide Financial's 'Friends of Angelo' VIP program and whether it was used to gain influence over federal officials. They made their case for the investigation in a letter to Rep. Edolphus Towns (D-N.Y.), the panel's chairman, and Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), the ranking member....
  • Rangel probe taking its toll (Tax-cheat Charlie appeared visibly tired and thinner than usual)

    10/14/2009 4:25:28 PM PDT · by Libloather · 17 replies · 941+ views
    Politico ^ | 10/14/09 | GLENN THRUSH
    Rangel probe taking its tollBy GLENN THRUSH | 10/14/09 4:57 AM EDT For years, Charles Rangel has been a visible, vital presence in the Capitol, bantering with reporters or booming gravelly-voiced greetings to well-wishers who yell “Charlie!” at him in the Rotunda. But last week — just before the Republicans’ third attempt to punish Rangel — the Harlem Democrat appeared visibly tired and thinner than usual, and he barely spoke above a whisper when a reporter approached to ask a question. The strains of the ongoing House ethics committee probe into Rangel’s finances — coupled with escalating attacks by the...
  • Update: Montana Attorney General Drops Investigation into American Police Force

    10/14/2009 12:59:58 AM PDT · by BigSkyFreeper · 13 replies · 668+ views
    KFBB-TV Great Falls/Max Media of Montana ^ | October 13, 2009 | KFBB News
    BILLINGS, Mont. - Montana Attorney General Steve Bullock has dropped his investigation into a California company following its attempted take over of an empty Montana jail. The company, American Police Force, had missed a Monday deadline to provide documents sought by Bullock's office after revelations that company founder Michael Hilton had a lengthy criminal background. But because American Police Force has since pulled out of its bid to take over a 464-bed jail in rural Hardin, Bullock said Tuesday he was ending the investigation. Bullock said Hilton's failure to answer questions about the project "speaks volumes about his company's legitimacy."
  • House ethics panel to expand Rangel probe

    10/08/2009 5:32:11 PM PDT · by markomalley · 14 replies · 444+ views
    Washington Times ^ | 10/8/2009 | Joseph Weber
    The House panel investigating alleged ethics violations by Rep. Charles B. Rangel, New York Democrat, said Thursday it voted unanimously to expand the probe. A statement by the House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct said its investigative subcommittee already has issued nearly "150 subpoenas, interviewed approximately 34 witnesses resulting in over 2,100 pages of transcripts." The subcommittee also has analyzed more than 12,000 pages of documents and held more than 30 investigative meetings, according to the statement issued by Rep. Zoe Lofgren, California Democrat, who is the committee chairman, and ranking minority member Rep. Jo Bonner, Alabama Republican. However,...
  • How to Watch NASA's Probe Smack the Moon Friday

    10/06/2009 4:04:55 PM PDT · by NormsRevenge · 40 replies · 1,686+ views
    Space.com ^ | 10/6/09 | Joe Rao
    Get ready for a unique cosmic collision! Early this coming Friday morning (Oct. 9), NASA's Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) will end its mission with a bang — literally. Currently carrying with it the upper stage of the rocket that launched it on its way to the moon on June 18, the game plan is to send that spent rocket motor on a course to smash into the lunar surface. But just not anywhere on the lunar surface, but to a thoroughly scrutinized crater called Cabeus that lies near the moon's south pole and is enveloped in perpetual...
  • What's good enough for Rep. William Jefferson is good enough for Rep. Charles Rangel, some say

    10/04/2009 7:26:21 AM PDT · by Libloather · 15 replies · 872+ views
    NOLA ^ | 10/04/09
    What's good enough for Rep. William Jefferson is good enough for Rep. Charles Rangel, some sayBy Times-Picayune Staff October 04, 2009, 4:15AM Some House Republicans are calling on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to follow the same logic dealing with Ways and Means Committee Chairman Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., that she did in 2006 when she persuaded the House Democratic caucus to remove then Rep. William Jefferson, D-New Orleans, from the panel. Rep. John Carter, R-Tx., has been alluding to the Jefferson action as he sought to force Rangel's ouster over alleged ethical and financial lapses. Pelosi successfully sought Jefferson's removal after...
  • Holder asked to quicken probe of Black Panther case

    09/30/2009 5:53:21 PM PDT · by jazusamo · 10 replies · 686+ views
    The Washington Times ^ | September 30, 2009 | Jerry Seper
    The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights asked Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. on Wednesday to name a Justice Department official to oversee the production of what it called "our overdue information requests" for documents in the dismissal of a civil complaint against New Black Panther Party members accused of disrupting a polling place in the November elections. Commission Chairman Gerald A. Reynolds, in a letter, said the department has been "largely non-responsive" to requests for information since questions about the dismissal were first raised in June and had turned over "none of the documents" being sought. Mr. Reynolds said...
  • Issa Ramps Up Probe of Countrywide After Report on Phone Tapings ('FRiends of Angelo' pot bubbles)

    09/28/2009 11:56:00 AM PDT · by NormsRevenge · 7 replies · 832+ views
    CQPolitics on Yahoo ^ | 9/28/09 | CQPolitics
    The revelation that Countrywide Financial recorded phone conversations as part of a specialized "VIP" mortgage loan program has added another twist to a Republican-led inquiry on Capitol Hill. Republican Rep. Darrell Issa, who has aggressively pursued the now-defunct Countrywide program for much of this year, said Monday that a call-recording system put in place as early as 2003 could contain evidence of wrongdoing by prominent public officials. He requested a raft of new information about the program and the taping system from Bank of America, which purchased Countrywide in July 2008 as it struggled with mounting losses amid the collapse...
  • House pushes for sweeping audit of the Fed

    09/25/2009 10:45:34 AM PDT · by Palin Republic · 202 replies · 3,972+ views
    AP ^ | 9/25/09 | ANNE FLAHERTY
    House lawmakers want to pry open the books of the famously secretive Federal Reserve with legislation that would subject the central bank to a sweeping congressional audit. The effort is overwhelmingly bipartisan. Hardline conservatives and liberal Democrats have banded together in their criticism of the Fed as a major power broker in the financial system that doesn't answer to Congress. Friday's debate comes as lawmakers consider a proposal by President Barack Obama that would give the Fed new powers to prevent another economic crisis. "Nobody in my district thinks that the Fed has done such a wonderful job of running...
  • Grayson-Paul "odd couple" audit bill gets more support

    09/25/2009 4:52:12 PM PDT · by GoldStandard · 7 replies · 401+ views
    The Orlando Sentinel ^ | Sep 25, 2009
    U.S. Rep. Alan Grayson, the self-styled progressive Democrat from Orlando, would seem to have little in common with U.S. Rep. Ron Paul, a libertarian Republican from Texas who ran for president last year. But they both share a deep-seated mistrust of government secrecy in general and the Federal Reserve in particular. Grayson was elected to Congress last year just as the Fed was parceling out the better part of $700 billion to U.S. and foreign banks considered at risk of failure, as part of the Bush (and Obama) administration's response to a worldwide financial crisis. And even as he began...
  • FBI Terror Probe Expands, Intensifies--Nearly All of the Bureau's U.S. Field Offices involved

    09/23/2009 11:43:25 PM PDT · by Ernest_at_the_Beach · 44 replies · 2,037+ views
    wcbstv ^ | Sep 23, 2009 7:41 pm US/Eastern | CBS
    Investigation Into Alleged NYC Bomb Plot Includes Nearly All of the Bureau's U.S. Field OfficesCriminal Complaint Suggests Cops May Have Tipped-Off Zazi By Questioning New York Imam, Seizing CarThe FBI is expanding its investigation into an alleged terror plot targeting New York City, and nearly every one of the FBI's 57 field offices in the country and several overseas are now in on the case, working along with local police. On Wednesday, the NYPD was showing a new training video in precincts citywide detailing the intelligence from the agencies. Bomb Squad Commander Lt. Marc Torre narrates the video, giving regular...
  • County: No investigation into ACORN (San Diego county will assist in CA probe)

    09/22/2009 10:48:13 PM PDT · by BAW · 2 replies · 459+ views
    San Diego Union Tribune ^ | Sep 22, 2009 | Jeff McDonald
    San Diego County will not open its own investigation into ACORN, the community organizing nonprofit that has become embroiled in a national scandal over video showing employees advising potential criminals. Instead, county officials will assist the state attorney general and the district attorney in auditing thousands of voter-registration cards submitted with the Registrar of Voters Office before the November 2008 election, the Board of Supervisors decided on Tuesday. “This is not about politics,” Supervisor Pam Slater-Price said. “This is about the use of taxpayer money and taxpayer resources and public trust. We should have a thorough investigation from top to...
  • Expert hired to probe fatal boat collision

    09/22/2009 10:31:45 PM PDT · by Onerom99 · 3 replies · 565+ views
    The Lock Haven Express ^ | 9/22/09 | Local News
    LOCK HAVEN - The Clinton County district attorney has hired an expert in the field of boat crash reconstruction to probe the July 10 collision on the Susquehannna River that led to the death of a young Hublersburg girl. District Attorney Michael F. Salisbury revealed the hiring Monday as the over two-month investigation continues. Valerie Teresa Heidt, 12, of Hublersburg, was killed when boats operated by John Englert of Mill Hall and Bart Garlick of Lock Haven collided on the river about 7:30 p.m. that day. The accident occurred about two miles above the Veterans Bridge. An autopsy showed the...
  • Terror probe widens in U.S.

    09/21/2009 11:09:26 PM PDT · by Ernest_at_the_Beach · 34 replies · 1,444+ views
    Los Angeles Times ^ | September 22, 2009 | Josh Meyer and Tina Susman
    Reporting from Washington and New York - Federal authorities have tied as many as a dozen people to a suspected Al Qaeda-linked bomb plot on U.S. soil as they continue to gather evidence to indict on terrorism charges the young Afghan immigrant at the center of the case, law enforcement officials said Monday. Authorities said that they did not know the exact number of potential suspects or many of their identities, but that they had been connected through electronic intercepts, surveillance, seized evidence and interviews. A federal law enforcement official and others, speaking on condition of anonymity because of the...
  • Justice Department Inspector General Launches Internal ACORN Probe

    09/21/2009 5:27:26 PM PDT · by STONEWALLS · 15 replies · 672+ views
    Fox News ^ | 9-21-09 | Fox News
    "The Justice Department's inspector general has agreed to investigate whether ACORN has applied for or received any DOJ grant money, in the wake of bipartisan criticism of the community activist group's operation. And seven other inspectors general are being asked by two congressional members to take a look at their funding mechanisms."
  • N.Y. Governor Orders Review of ACORN Contracts

    09/19/2009 11:16:57 AM PDT · by fiscon1 · 2 replies · 246+ views
    Fox News ^ | 09/18/2009 | Fox News
    New York Gov. David Paterson ordered state agencies Friday to put a 30-day hold on contracts with the community organizing group ACORN and its affiliate, New York Agency for Community Affairs. In a memo, the Budget Division cited Paterson's "continued efforts to ensure fiscal accountability and integrity," directing the agencies to report "any potential issues." In Washington, the House and Senate separately voted this week to deny all federal funds for ACORN in a GOP-led strike against the liberal-leaning group, which was accused last year of submitting some false voter registration forms in a massive voter-registration drive.
  • House ethics panel investigates Rep. Maxine Waters

    09/18/2009 1:10:08 PM PDT · by no-llmd · 27 replies · 976+ views
    LA Times ^ | September 17, 2009 | Richard Simon
    Reporting from Washington - The House Ethics Committee is investigating Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Los Angeles), who has come under scrutiny because of her husband's ties to a bank that received federal bailout funds. The panel's chairwoman and ranking member announced the committee was extending by 45 days a determination on whether it would conduct a more thorough review of Waters' conduct, but they declined to say what was being investigated. Waters, one of Los Angeles' most enduring liberal politicians, also declined to comment.
  • China to Probe Alleged ‘Dumping’ of U.S. Products (China retaliates Obama sanctions)

    09/13/2009 1:55:59 PM PDT · by Nachum · 39 replies · 928+ views
    Bloomberg ^ | 9/13/09 | Bloomberg News
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  • Key Figure in Blagojevich Corruption Probe Found Dead

    09/12/2009 5:55:06 PM PDT · by Doogle · 22 replies · 1,610+ views
    FOX NEWS ^ | 09/12/09 | FOX NEWS
    A key figure in ousted Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich's federal corruption case died Saturday of an apparent "aspirin overdose," a law enforcement source told the Chicago Sun-Times. Christopher Kelly, 51, was Blagojevich's former chief fundraiser, and was described by the newspaper as "go-to" guy in the ex-governor's administration.
  • Charlie Sheen urges Barack Obama to reopen 9/11 investigation in video message

    09/11/2009 5:09:00 PM PDT · by pissant · 28 replies · 939+ views
    Telegraph UK ^ | 9/11/09 | Subhajit Banharjee
    Sheen had earlier written an open letter to the President in which he claimed that there was cover-up by the Bush administration over the 2001 attacks that claimed the lives of several thousand people. The six-and-a-half minute video - released on the eighth anniversary of the disaster - opens with news reports and footage of the incident with Sheen's voiceover: "The questions Mr President, the questions."
  • SEC told to fully probe complaints to bust fraud

    09/11/2009 5:00:07 PM PDT · by NormsRevenge · 4 replies · 513+ views
    Reuters on Yahoo ^ | 9/11/09 | Reuters
    WASHINGTON (Reuters) – After bungling five probes that should have uncovered Bernard Madoff's $65 billion fraud, regulators must learn to aggressively investigate tips and complaints to catch wrongdoers, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's internal watchdog said on Thursday. A scathing report issued last week by SEC Inspector General David Kotz found that the agency missed numerous red flags, did not properly follow up on leads and dismissed tips and complaints that might have uncovered Madoff's investment sham. At a congressional hearing to examine the SEC's shortcomings, Kotz outlined dozens of recommendations to improve SEC procedures for handling tips and...
  • New 9/11 Probe Looks Headed for NYC Ballot - Group has enough valid signatures for Nov. measure

    09/10/2009 7:35:58 PM PDT · by Free ThinkerNY · 9 replies · 760+ views
    newser.com ^ | Sept. 10, 2009 | W. McCahill
    (Newser Summary) – A New York City group has secured enough valid signatures to put a referendum on the November ballot to force a new investigation into the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. A press release from the New York City Coalition for Accountability Now says city lawyers conceded today that at least a requisite 30,000 of some 52,000 collected by the group were legal. “Although the City has an incredibly successful record of shooting down ballot initiatives, we will be arguing from a fresh perspective that reflects the unprecedented events of 9/11,” says a lawyer for NYC CAN,...
  • Charlie Sheen's Video Message to President Obama

    09/10/2009 5:06:12 PM PDT · by GoreNoMore · 87 replies · 2,282+ views
    NYC CAN Breaking News Bulletin - FORWARD WIDELY September 10, 2009 New York – In a last minute decision, lawyers for the City of New York have conceded that the New York City Coalition for Accountability Now (NYC CAN), a group comprising 9/11 family members, first responders and survivors, indeed did submit over 30,000 valid signatures to put the referendum for a new 9/11 investigation before the voters of New York City this November. In an earlier letter from the City Clerk dated July 24, 2009, the City had claimed only 26,003 signatures were valid, 3,997 short of the requisite...
  • EXCLUSIVE: Inquiry opened into New Black Panther case

    09/09/2009 3:58:27 PM PDT · by rightwingintelligentsia · 21 replies · 1,498+ views
    Washington Times ^ | September 9, 2009 | Jerry Seper
    The Justice Department's Office of Professional Responsibility has begun an inquiry into the dismissal in May of a civil complaint against the New Black Panther Party and two of its members who disrupted a Philadelphia polling place during last year's presidential elections. The inquiry was disclosed in an Aug. 28 letter to Rep. Lamar Smith, ranking Republican on the House Judiciary Committee who first raised questions about the case's dismissal and asked Attorney General Eric H. Holder, Jr., to make available the head of the department's Voting Section for a closed-door briefing about the decision. In the letter, Mary Patrice...
  • NATO Investigates Air Strike in Afghanistan

    09/04/2009 4:55:54 PM PDT · by SandRat · 9 replies · 555+ views
    WASHINGTON, Sept. 4, 2009 – NATO’s International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan has launched an investigation into a coalition air strike that reportedly killed civilians yesterday, military officials reported. NATO officials still are working to ascertain the facts in the incident, which occurred in Regional Command North’s area of operations in Kunduz province, according to an ISAF news release. What is known is that ISAF soldiers reported that insurgents had hijacked two fuel trucks in Kunduz yesterday. The troops located the trucks on the banks of the Kunduz River when the vehicles became stuck in the mud. The troops observed...
  • Nato pledges Afghan Strike Probe (Obama Unneccesarily Killing Civilians)

    09/04/2009 9:58:46 AM PDT · by nickcarraway · 14 replies · 525+ views
    BBC ^ | 9/4/09
    Nato has promised a full investigation into an air strike on two fuel tankers that killed up to 90 people in Afghanistan's northern Kunduz province. The alliance said many Taliban insurgents who had hijacked the tankers were killed but it admitted it had reports of many civilian casualties. The Nato-led forces said they regretted "any unnecessary loss of human life". President Hamid Karzai said targeting civilians was "unacceptable" and announced his own investigation panel. A statement from his office said the president expressed "deep sorrow for the loss of our compatriots" and "emphasised that innocent civilians must not be killed...
  • DOJ Finally Investigating New Black Panther Voter intimidation case

    09/09/2009 4:09:21 PM PDT · by William Tell 2 · 10 replies · 736+ views
    Tremoglie's Tea Time Blog ^ | 9-9-09 | Michael P. Tremoglie
    According to sources, Rep. Frank Wolf R.Va. and Rep. Lamar Smith R-Tx received a letter today from the Dept. of Justice Office of Professional Responsibility (DOJ) about the voter intimidation case against the New Black Panther Party for Self-Defense ( NBP), which was mysteriously dismissed by the DOJ after President Obama took office. Questions about this unusual dismissal have been asked by Messrs. Wolf ...