1. Plame, Wilson to take CIA leak lawsuit to Supreme Court…
Former CIA operative Valerie Plame Wilson and her husband, former ambassador Joseph Wilson, plan to take their civil lawsuit against Bush administration officials to the Supreme Court after a federal circuit court refused to rehear the case on Monday.

2. Crossing to Mexico for Hospitals and [...]

http://www.americablog.com…
John Aravosis (DC)
Wow. This company has records on 15% of the entire US population - and those records now appear to be in the hands of criminals.
Corporate custodians of confidential medical data should be closely monitoring events connected to a nightmarish computer security breach in the St. Louis region.
Express Scripts is one of the [...]

http://thinkprogress.org…
Amanda Terkel
Dave Noon pulls out a passage from a new piece by the National Review’s Andy McCarthy on why Iraqis should be more grateful to the United States:
Thousands of American lives and hundreds of billions in taxpayer funds have been expended to provide Iraqis the opportunity to live freely. And this despite the facts that [...]

http://www.washingtonpost.com…
hat tip: John Aravosis at AMERICAblog, who says:
A real tour de force here. You may recall that Parker was one of the first, and only, conservatives to come out an admit that Sarah Palin was an embarrassment. Here she takes on quite possible the GOP’s biggest sacred cow, the religious right. She calls it “armband [...]

http://www.mcclatchydc.com…
By Jonathan S. Landay | McClatchy Newspapers
WASHINGTON — An American Muslim subjected to several years of intense FBI scrutiny and questioning about links to terrorism has been held without charges, access to a lawyer or contact with his family for nearly three months by the security services of the United Arab Emirates.

http://crooksandliars.com…
John Amato

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(h/t Heather)
Michelle Bachmann is a pretty wild person as we’ve seen, but after spewing venom at Barack Obama for a few minutes with Hannidate, she then lied to Alan Colmes and denied saying this on Hardball:

http://crooksandliars.com…
Dick Cheney indicted for organized crime by Texas grand jury
John Amato
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More news coming out of TX…
Cheney is accused of investing some $85 million in the Vanguard Group that houses federal inmates. The grand jury accuses Cheney and Alberto Gonzalez of engaging in organized criminal [...]

The increase in pirate attacks interests me, especially as Blackwater wants to take on that task. A little created terror, anyone?
http://blog.wired.com…
Indian Frigate 1, Pirate ‘Mother Ship’ 0
Noah Shachtman
A Somali pirate “mother ship” is now in flames, after a firefight with an Indian frigate in the Gulf of Aden.
The INS Tabar intercepted the pirate ship [...]

from Covert History:

New Book: Atsugi Assassins
The author, Harlan “Hawk” Jensen, says he served at Atsugi with Oswald and that they were both MK/ULTRA subjects. The book can be purchased here.

By Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!
Posted on November 18, 2008, Printed on November 18, 2008
http://www.alternet.org…
Amy Goodman: World leaders from nearly two dozen countries met in Washington over the weekend to discuss plans to increase regulation of international financial activity. They acknowledged that a failure of market oversight in countries like the United States had precipitated the [...]