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A judge in Raymondville, Texas has dropped indictments against Vice President Dick Cheney and former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales.
Judge Manuel Banales, after surviving a motion to have him removed from the case, threw out eight of the indictments brought by Willacy County District Attorney Juan Guerra, including those against two special prosecutors, two district judges, [...]

Sarah Palin Still Wearing Campaign Clothes…
After a 12-day hiatus, Sarah Palin stepped back into the spotlight Monday to campaign for Georgia Senator Saxby Chambliss. Spectators experienced deja vu as the Alaska governor sported the same jacket she had worn on the campaign trail this fall. Was Palin valiantly recycling old clothes or defiantly [...]

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Noah Shachtman
The Army’s controversial Human Terrain program, already reeling from a murder investigation, is facing new allegations — that one of its own worked as a spy for Saddam.
Issam Hamama was arrested last week in Bangor, Maine on charges of “conspir[ing] to act as an agent of a foreign government,” and of making false statements [...]

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Secretary of Defense Robert Gates and General Norton Schwartz, the Air Force chief of staff, are scheduled to visit the Minot Air Force Base on Monday. Schwartz was appointed by President [sic] Bush this summer during leadership changes following the mishandling of nuclear weapons and equipment by the Air Force, including at Minot.
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Military brass to [...]

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WASHINGTON: The banned Lashkar-e-Tayyaba (LT) denied its involvement in the Mumbai terror attacks even as US media and intelligence speculated about the group’s possible role in the attacks that left over 200 people, including several foreigners, dead in India’s financial capital, Mumbai.

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Jeremy Page in Delhi
The Indian Army has been shocked by the arrest of a senior Military Intelligence officer on suspicion of involvement in a bomb attack by Hindu extremists in western India in September.

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November 30, 2008
By Louis Porter Vermont Press Bureau
Few people in Vermont remember Dr. Robert W. Hyde, but one of his former patients can’t forget him. The doctor was involved in one of the nation’s darkest chapters in medical science: In the 1950s, Hyde conducted drug and psychological experiments at a Boston hospital through funding that [...]

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David Neiwert
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Video courtesy Amnesty International.

A man using the pseudonym Matthew Alexander has written a truly remarkable op-ed for the Washington Post discussing effective interrogation of enemy combatants — which most decidedly does not include torture:

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Submitted by BuzzFlash on Mon, 12/01/2008 - 3:21pm. Dave Lindorff
DAVE LINDORFF
Before the odor of burned gunpowder has left the air of the Taj Mahal Hotel in Mumbai, the US is lecturing India not to go off half-cocked and attack Pakistan, simply because all of the attackers in the terrorist assaults in that city arrived by [...]

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A BUZZFLASH NEWS ANALYSIS
by Christine Bowman
Do American citizens realize that active-duty U.S. troops are now charged with serving domestically? They are currently funded and prepared to fight, if asked to, in the streets of the U. S. of A. according to a recent report from The Washington Post: