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Opposition Grows To Obama's Decision Not To Prosecute CIA Agents 20.4.2009 Politics on HuffingtonPost.com
"Nothing will be gained by spending our time and energy laying blame for the past." - President Barack Obama From the New York Times editorial...
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Mexico says 8 killed in attack on prison convoy (AP) 20.4.2009 Yahoo: Top Stories
AP - In the latest of a series of brazen, drug-related attacks, gunmen ambushed a prisoner transfer convoy in western Mexico, killing eight officers in a failed attempt to free a high-level cartel member, police said Sunday. ...
Mexico says 8 killed in attack on prison convoy 20.4.2009 Boston Globe: Latest
In the latest of a series of brazen, drug-related attacks, gunmen ambushed a prisoner transfer convoy in western Mexico, killing eight officers in a failed attempt to free a high-level cartel member, police said Sunday.
Mexico says 8 killed in attack on prison convoy 20.4.2009 L.A. Times - World News
In the latest of a series of brazen, drug-related attacks, gunmen ambushed a prisoner transfer convoy in western Mexico, killing eight officers in a failed attempt to free a high-level cartel member, police said Sunday.

Mexico says 8 killed in attack on prison convoy 20.4.2009 LA Times: Top News
In the latest of a series of brazen, drug-related attacks, gunmen ambushed a prisoner transfer convoy in western Mexico, killing eight officers in a failed attempt to free a high-level cartel member, police said Sunday.

Mexico says 8 killed in attack on prison convoy (AP) 20.4.2009 Yahoo: Top Stories
AP - In the latest of a series of brazen, drug-related attacks, gunmen ambushed a prisoner transfer convoy in western Mexico, killing eight officers in a failed attempt to free a high-level cartel member, police said Sunday. ...
Escaped Florida inmates charged with murder after end of long manhunt 20.4.2009 Chicago Tribune: Nation
PALATKA, Fla. (AP) — Two escaped jail inmates were charged with murder during an emergency hearing hours after they were captured as part of a dayslong manhunt spanning several states, authorities said ...
Alexander Cockburn: Thin Ice From Here to the Horizon 19.4.2009 Organic Consumers Association News Headlines
Alexander Cockburn: Thin Ice From Here to the Horizon
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Escaped Fla. inmates appear for murder charge 19.4.2009 Boston Globe: Latest
Two escaped jail inmates were charged with murder during an emergency hearing hours after they were captured as part of a dayslong manhunt spanning several states, authorities said Sunday.
California Caravans for Justice 19.4.2009 Truthout.com

    Janice Keller of Sacramento joined hundreds of people in the Caravan for Justice II at the state Capitol on April 8. This action was part of a movement to change the criminal justice system in California.

    "My son LaMont Rhinehart has been jailed for 21 months in Sacramento on a murder charge with no preliminary hearing yet and none scheduled," said Keller. "I want the DA to bring him to trial or let him go."

    The day before, at a Nation of Islam meeting, she learned of the Caravan for Justice II.

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William Fisher: Clinton, Agnew, Nixon Redux 19.4.2009 Politics on HuffingtonPost.com
Lawyers who reject President Barack Obama's decision not to seek prosecution of officials who may have participated in the torture of terror-suspect prisoners are seeking...
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Correcting America's Dark Chapter of Torture 19.4.2009 Commondreams.org Views
by Pierre Tristam

There's a bomb of a contradiction at the heart of what's passing for a debate on the torture regime of the past eight years. President Barack Obama calls those years of secret prisons and "enhanced interrogation techniques" a "dark and painful chapter in our history." That's not just a suggestion of something amiss. It's an admission and an indictment of wrongs, in terms that have been applied to atrocities like war crimes and slavery.

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CIA Waterboarded Khalid Sheikh Mohammed 183 Times In One Month 19.4.2009 Politics on HuffingtonPost.com
I've put this detail in a series of posts, but it really deserves a full post. According to the May 30, 2005 Bradbury memo, Khalid...
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Mexican police say 8 officers killed in attack on convoy transporting drug suspect 19.4.2009 Star Tribune: World
Colorado transgender woman's slaying tried as hate crime 19.4.2009 LA Times: Nation
The state is one of 11, along with the District of Columbia, that include gender identity as a protected class, but has not applied the statute before. Angie Zapata, 18, was killed in July.

To her sister, Angie Zapata was a teenage girl in every sense but the biological one.

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Eight killed in Mexico in foiled drug gang rescue 19.4.2009 Boston Globe: Latest
Six police and two jail guards were killed in Mexico on Saturday when gunmen tried to free drug cartel suspects from a prison convey, the latest in the country's increasingly violent drug conflict.
Mexico says 8 killed in attack on police convoy 19.4.2009 Boston Globe: Latest
Eight Mexican law enforcement officers were killed Saturday in a brazen attack on a police convoy transporting an important drug suspect to a prison in western Mexico.
Deputies nab jail escapees suspected in slaying 19.4.2009 MSNBC
Two men suspected of killing a woman after they broke out of a Florida jail were caught Saturday when deputies acting on a tip chased them down on foot and tackled them.
NY mobster gets 13 years for racketeering, murder 19.4.2009 Boston Globe: Latest
A mob captain who helped run the crumbling Gambino crime family when John Gotti was sent to prison has been sentenced to 13 years in prison.
NY mobster gets 13 years for racketeering, murder 19.4.2009 Seattle Times: Nation & World
A mob captain who helped run the crumbling Gambino crime family when John Gotti was sent to prison has been sentenced to 13 years in prison.
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