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Date: May 18th, 2006

Ensign Amendment to Immigration bill defeated

18 May, 2006 (21:10) | Crime & Punishment, Immigration, Politics | By: ricjames

I am astonished that 50 of our nation’s allegedly most gifted legislators could be so stone-cold stupid as to vote down the Ensign Amendment today as reported in the Washington Post. The Amendment would have barred illegal aliens from getting credit for the time they worked here in the US illegally when applying for Social [...]

Another telecom firm disputes the NSA data mining story

18 May, 2006 (20:46) | Crime & Punishment, The Media | By: ricjames

Fox News is reporting that BellSouth is denying that it provided any data to the NSA as reported in a USA Today story: BellSouth Corp. is pressing the newspaper USA Today to retract claims in a story asserting that the telecommunications company provided phone records of its customers to the National Security Agency. The Atlanta-based [...]

Another canary trap?

18 May, 2006 (06:30) | GWOT, Politics | By: ricjames

After repeated investigations by European agencies into the “secret prisons” run by the CIA story was leaked resulted in no evidence whatsoever that such prisons existed, it was suggested that the entire story might have been a huge canary trap. It was effective: Mary McCarthy was discovered. With the revelation that more telecom companies weren’t [...]