Jeb to GOP: Lay off Obama…Bush pledged to be involved in rebuilding the Republican Party by advocating conservative ideas and policies. But in a written statement, he also called on his fellow Republicans to “raise the level of debate to reflect the American people’s desire for change and bipartisanship, embodied by November’s historic election.”
“President-elect Obama [...]

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Via: Covert History
‘YEAH, I HAD the son of a bitch killed. I’m glad I did. I’m sorry I couldn’t have done it myself!”
These were the words of Carlos Marcello, the Mafia godfather of Louisiana and Texas. And he was talking about the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
Marcello’s startling admission is in uncensored [...]

talkingpointsmemo: Too Close For Comfort…FBI agents doing the background check on Bill Richardson apparently started bumping into their colleagues who were investigating those pay-to-play allegations in New Mexico.

reuters: FBI plans large hiring blitz of agents, experts…Wanted by the FBI: agents, language specialists, computer experts, intelligence analysts and finance experts. The FBI said on Monday it [...]

RAW STORY
Published: Friday January 2, 2009
Nine Muslims, including three children, were ordered off a domestic US flight after two other passengers heard them making what they thought were suspicious remarks about security, media said Friday.
The group, eight of whom are US citizens, was in Washington Thursday afternoon on an AirTran flight bound for Orlando, Florida [...]

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# 1. Over One Million Iraqi Deaths Caused by US Occupation
# 2. Security and Prosperity Partnership: Militarized NAFTA
# 3. InfraGard: The FBI Deputizes Business
# 4. ILEA: Is the US Restarting Dirty Wars in Latin America?
# 5. Seizing War Protesters’ Assets
# 6. The Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act
# 7. Guest Workers Inc.: Fraud and Human Trafficking
# 8. [...]

Human trafficking in every US city…When FBI and immigration agents arrested a 28-year-old Guatemalan woman three months ago in Los Angeles, they announced that they had shut down one of the most elaborate sex trafficking rings in the country. It was also the family business.

Kosovo threatens to ban products from Serbia …Kosovo threatened on [...]

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from Only the Blog Knows Brooklyn by louise crawford
Announced today in the NY Times:
W. Mark Felt, who was the No. 2 official at the F.B.I. when he helped bring down President Richard M. Nixon by resisting the Watergate cover-up and becoming Deep Throat, the most famous anonymous source in American history, died Thursday. He was [...]

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Published: Dec. 18, 2008 at 4:45 PM
WASHINGTON, Dec. 18 (UPI) — Students trying to find out who killed reporter Daniel Pearl have sued the FBI and CIA to get records the students allege the U.S. agencies illegally withheld.

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David Edwards and Muriel Kane
Published: Wednesday December 17, 2008
Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich has gained notoriety for his involvement in a pay-to-play corruption scandal — but is it possible that he was once a petty criminal?
Attorney and former police officer Robert Cooley claims that back when he was doing undercover work for the FBI in the [...]

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Suspicious White Powder Letters Received Around the United States

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Envelopes containing white powder that later tested negative for toxins were mailed to 16 U.S. embassies in Europe this month, the State Department and Federal Bureau of Investigation said on Wednesday.
“Tests conducted to date have all met with negative results,” State Department spokesman [...]