Agence France-Presse BAGHDAD (AFP) – Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said a US raid on Sunday in which a policeman and a woman were shot dead was a "breach" of a landmark security pact with Washington. "The prime minister condemns the killings which are in breach of the (US-Iraqi) security pact," Maliki said in a [...]
By Margaret Foster If a natatorium’s pool is demolished, can it still be called a natatorium? That’s the question Honolulu is grappling with as it discusses the fate of the saltwater pool at the Waikiki War Memorial Natatorium, a Beaux Arts structure built in 1927 as a monument to World War I veterans. In his State [...]
By Jill Serjeant LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – The hangar that housed the nuclear bomber Enola Gay and a 1960s Los Angeles hotel are two of the most endangered historic sites in the United States, the National Trust for Historic Preservation said on Monday. The organization also said a Frank Lloyd Wright Cubist-style temple in Illinois [...]
Raw Story The Fox television network has refused to air President Barack Obama’s primetime press conference on Wednesday night, scheduled to mark the president’s 100th day in office. “The address, scheduled for 8 p.m. (ET), could have possibly affected the ‘American Idol’ results show, which begins at 9 p.m., and the network did not want [...]
BY MICHAEL VASQUEZmrvasquez@MiamiHerald.com Port Everglades will be bustling with activity Monday morning for the start of Fleet Week — an annual event that brings U.S. Navy sailors from around the world to the shores, and bars, of South Florida. The vessels coming to Port Everglades include two U.S. Navy ships, a submarine, a Coast Guard [...]
Official sees pace remaining stable for years By Chuck Crumbo COLUMBIA — Shortly after the first Sept. 1, 2001, terrorist attack, S.C.-based Air Force units launched into action. F-16 fighters from Shaw Air Force Base patrolled the skies over the Eastern Seaboard. Giant C-17 transport planes at Charleston Air Force Base readied to move troops [...]
Rocklin California William Jessup University is pleased to announce a new, full tuition scholarship program aimed specifically at local veterans. Any veteran who has served on active duty for at least 36 aggregate months since 9/11 will have the complete cost of tuition covered in any program the University offers. "This scholarship program reinforces the [...]
AFP North Korea announced on Tuesday it would quit six-nation nuclear disarmament talks and restart its atomic weapons programme in protest at the UN’s condemnation of its rocket launch. The communist nation said Security Council discussion of the launch, which the North insists sent a satellite into orbit, was "an unbearable insult" to its people. [...]
By RANDALL CHASE, Associated Press Writer Randall Chase, Associated Press Writer – Mon Apr 27, 5:36 pm ET DOVER, Del. – In the weeks since the Pentagon ended an 18-year ban on media coverage of fallen soldiers returning to the U.S., most families given the option have allowed reporters and photographers to witness the solemn ceremonies that mark the [...]
By Jason Leopold According to New Yorker reporter Jane Mayer, Helgerson concluded that some detainees were allegedly killed during interrogations. In an interview with Harper’s magazine last year, Mayer said Helgerson “investigated several alleged homicides involving CIA detainees” and forwarded several of those cases “to the Justice Department for further consideration and potential prosecution.” CIA [...]
Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Co., Palmdale, Calif., is being awarded a $100,000,000 increment of a $399,898,219 cost plus fixed fee contract for phase three of the Integrated Sensor is Structure program. Work will be performed in Palmdale, Calif., (33 percent); El Segundo, Calif., (37 percent); Akron, Ohio, (3 percent); Denver, Colo., (14 percent); Sunnyvale, Calif., [...]
Schedule for Week of April 27, 2009 Tuesday, April 28 at 10 a.m. – 334 Cannon House Office Building **Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations Hearing “Leaving No One Behind: Is the Federal Recovery Coordination Program Working?” Witness List (Final) Panel 1 Captain Mark A. Brogan, USA, (Ret.), Knoxville, TN, (OIFVeteran) First Lieutenant Andrew Kinard, [...]
by Bill Poovey Thousands of veterans were at first shocked to learn they should get blood tests for HIV and hepatitis because three hospitals might have treated them with unsterile equipment. Now, just a couple of months after the Department of Veterans Affairs issued the dire warnings, veterans are growing frustrated by the lack of [...]
by Jason Leopold George W. Bush’s Justice Department said subjecting a person to the near drowning of waterboarding was not a crime and didn’t even cause pain, but Ronald Reagan’s Justice Department thought otherwise, prosecuting a Texas sheriff and three deputies for using the practice to get confessions. Federal prosecutors secured a 10-year [...]
Miami Beach, FLA – Miami-based Veterans Retreat charity hosted wounded Iraq War veteran CPT Mark Brogan and his wife, Sunny, to five days of sun, fun & flying on Miami Beach. CPT Brogan was sponsored by Veterans Retreat to fulfill a lifelong goal to learn to fly while enjoying many other outdoor activities Miami has [...]
By Mike Griffith, Staff Writer Left-wing blogs are aflame with numerous distortions and falsehoods about the CIA’s waterboarding interrogations. Most of those distortions and myths have also appeared here on the Veterans Today website. What follows is a point-by-point rebuttal to those myths. MYTH: The planned attack on Los Angeles was not prevented by [...]
The full text of the Bybee "Torture Memo" is presented as a public service by TomJoad.org http://ccrjustice.org/files/olc_08012002_bybee.pdf http://ccrjustice.org/files/olc_08012002_bybee.pdf http://ccrjustice.org/files/05-10-2005_bradbury_20pg_OLC%20torture%20memos.pdf http://ccrjustice.org/files/05-30-2005_bradbury_40pg_OLC%20torture%20memos.pdf The Bybee Torture Memo The full text of the Bybee "Torture Memo" is presented as a public service by TomJoad.org Be sure to visit these pages of interest: Introduction to Bybee Memo, [...]
GEO Pakistan ISLAMABAD: President Asif Ali Zardari said Monday that Pakistani intelligence believes Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden is dead but acknowledged they had no evidence. "The Americans tell me they don’t know, and they are much more equipped than us to trace him. And our own intelligence services obviously think that he does not [...]
If you missed Sunday’s 60 Minutes, here’s a recap of our broadcast: Vice President BidenIn this profile of Joe Biden, Lesley Stahl spends two days with the vice president and also interviews his wife, Dr. Jill Biden, and his boss, President Barack Obama. Watch it now. Powered By CoalCoal is America’s most abundant and cheap [...]
Raw Story A number of buildings in New York City were evacuated Monday morning after a trio of low-flying planes flew near the Statue of Liberty. “An Air Force One lookalike, the backup plane for the one regularly used by the president, flew low over Manhattan on Monday morning, accompanied by two F-16 fighters, so [...]
What’s Inside Today’s Local News for Veterans 1. "Strong" Leadership Team Said To Have Been Assembled At VA. 2. Linkage Of Veterans And Extremist Groups Decried. 3. Swine Flu Hits At Least 11 In US As WHO Warns Of "Pandemic Potential." 4. VA Doctor Urges People Not To Worry Intensely About Swine Flu Outbreak. 5. VA Launches Website For Returning [...]
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ – “As the State University of New Jersey, we want to make sure that we are ready to assist these men and women who so honorably served our nation,” said President Richard L. McCormick. Building on a yearlong effort to better serve men and women returning from military service to seek higher [...]
By John Byrne “I’ve now formally asked the CIA to take steps to declassify those memos so we can lay them out there and the American people have a chance to see what we obtained and what we learned and how good the intelligence was, as well as to see this debate over the legal [...]
How Ali Soufan, an FBI agent, got Abu Zubaydah to talk without torture. ‘I’ve Kept My Mouth Shut’: Soufan, last week in Central Park By Michael Isikoff The arguments at the CIA safe house were loud and intense in the spring of 2002. Inside, a high-value terror suspect, Abu Zubaydah, was handcuffed to a gurney. [...]
By David Rivkin and Lee Casey (former Justice Department officials and delegates to the UN Subcommission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights) The four memos on CIA interrogation released by the White House last week reveal a cautious and conservative Justice Department advising a CIA that cared deeply about staying within the law. [...]
Introduction by Mike Griffith, Staff Writer Some liberals continue to just outright lie about waterboarding and about the intel that was obtained from waterboarding. Too many liberals seem more interested in going after Bush officials who were involved in the decision to use waterboarding than they are in being honest about what was gained from waterboarding. [...]
By ROD NORDLAND Suadad N. Al-Salhy contributed reporting from Baghdad, and employees of The New York Times from Diwaniya, Baquba, Falluja, Kut, Mosul and Sulaimaniya. Published: April 26, 2009 BAGHDAD — The United States and Iraq will begin negotiating possible exceptions to the June 30 deadline for withdrawing American combat troops from Iraqi cities, focusing [...]
By Mike Griffith, Staff Writer Israel tops all Middle Eastern countries in its respect for political rights, civil liberties, and freedom of the press, according to the widely respected, non-partisan group Freedom House, which recently released its annual ratings on the state of freedom around the world. In each of these three categories, Freedom House rated [...]
Poland’s Krystian Zimerman, widely regarded as one of the finest pianists in the world, created a furor Sunday night in his debut at Walt Disney Concert Hall when he announced this would be his last performance in America because of the nation’s military policies overseas. “Get your hands off of my country,” he said. He [...]
By BOB TEDESCHI A FAR-REACHING network of private and public agencies serves homeless veterans in Connecticut, with group homes and caseworkers helping former military members live normally again. But that network now faces the fallout from a signal change in the nation’s military policy — namely, the shift to female combatants. The number of homeless [...]
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