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1 in 136 US Residents Behind Bars

Prisons and jails added more than 1,000 inmates each week for a year, putting almost 2.2 million people, or one in every 136 U.S. residents, behind bars by last summer.

Source: ABC News  

9/11

May 16

Defense Department Releases 9/11 Pentagon Video

Judicial Watch announced today that Department of Defense released a videotape to Judicial Watch at 1:00 p.m. this afternoon that shows American Airlines Flight 77 striking the Pentagon on September 11, 2001. (This ‘release’ of information adds exactly one new frame of relevant data, demonstrating nothing.)

Source: BBC  

Bush challenges hundreds of laws President cites powers of his office

President Bush has quietly claimed the authority to disobey more than 750 laws enacted since he took office, asserting that he has the power to set aside any statute passed by Congress when it conflicts with his interpretation of the Constitution.

Source: Boston Globe  

NSA has massive database of Americans’ phone calls

The National Security Agency has been secretly collecting the phone call records of tens of millions of Americans, using data provided by AT&T, Verizon and BellSouth, people with direct knowledge of the arrangement.

Source: USA Today  

War on Terror

May 10

Have 200,000 AK47s fallen into the hands of Iraq terrorists?

The 99-tonne cache of AK47s was to have been secretly flown out from a US base in Bosnia…Orders for the deal to go ahead were given by the US Department of Defense…The Moldovan airline used to transport the shipment was blasted by the UN in 2003 for smuggling arms to Liberia.

Source: Mirror  
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