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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 NewsJudicial 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: BBCBush Administration, Civil Rights
May 13
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 GlobeThe 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 TodayThe 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