The groundbreaking documentary Core of Corruption Volume 1: In the Shadows, released this year, explores the links between terrorism and intelligence agents from Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Israel.  It includes rare and unreleased footage covering suppressed or ignored warnings and the cover-up of evidence by senior American officials.

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Wikileaks just notified people that they are releasing over $1 billion dollars' worth of reports gathered by the Congressional Research Services (CRS).  These reports are provided to members of the US Congress and are legally in the public domain.  However, they are only released to the public with the permission of Congress in a complex system of permissions and protocols and ass-covering politicians.  Needless to say, attempts to free this information from the 'red tape' that keeps it from actually being released to the public have been met with resistance.Well, leave it to Wikileaks to strike a blow for transparency.

Cross-posted at The National Gadfly

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Posted at Show Me Progress.

A guy is in Manhattan in a hotel next to the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. The hotel is evacuated and he's not able to take all of his belongings with him. Later he tries to claim his belongings from the hotel - a passport, a religious book, and other items. Somehow the FBI is apprised of the situation - the claim is made that a radio transceiver was found with those belongings. The FBI interviews the guy. The guy says "that's not my radio."The FBI continues, more or less saying, "'fess up, or we'll turn your family over to people who'll make their life miserable." He confesses, out of fear for his family, in a confused sort of way. Later, an airline pilot shows up to recover his belongings and tells the hotel, "Where's my radio?" There's no connection between the two individuals.

Oopsie.

Title 18, Part I, Chapter 113C, Section 2340.(1) "torture" means an act committed by a person acting under the color of law specifically intended to inflict severe physical or mental pain or suffering (other than pain or suffering incidental to lawful sanctions) upon another person within his custody or physical control; (2) "severe mental pain or suffering" means the prolonged mental harm caused by or resulting from - (A) the intentional infliction or threatened infliction of severe physical pain or suffering; (B) the administration or application, or threatened administration or application, of mind-altering substances or other procedures calculated to disrupt profoundly the senses or the personality; (C) the threat of imminent death; or (D) the threat that another person will imminently be subjected to death, severe physical pain or suffering, or the administration or application of mind-altering substances or other procedures calculated to disrupt profoundly the senses or personality; and (3) "United States" includes all areas under the jurisdiction of the United States including any of the places described in sections 5 and 7 of this title and section 46501(2) of title 49.

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Two Paragraphs add up to one massive coverup by the Bush regime. Why is it taboo to discuss the fate of Amir Al Saadi? Why was this man held by US forces in Iraq, in solitary confinement for two years, in the news for two years, and then suddenly - nothing. Absolutely nothing? This stinks of a coverup by George W. Bush reqarding the run up to the invasion of Iraq that must be unraveled.

Here's two paragraphs that make it very clear that the US Senate is in on the cover-up. The news media will not touch this subject. Why? Let your newspapers and politicians know that you want to know what the hell happened to Amir Al Saadi.

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bumped - Matt

I thought it may help to provide a little background on political hunting in Texas. It's everything you think it is, and more. I've actually been on these hunts, as a journalist, staffer, and consultant.

The closest I've ever come to witnessing the horror of a downed hunter was many years ago, not too far from Vice President Dick Cheney's shooting of Harry Whittington. A reporter accidentally shot a jeep with his rifle. The jeep was empty. The jeep's radiator was blown to shit.

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