The US military may have held up to 24 children at its “war on terror” prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, facing the same conditions and interrogations as adult inmates, Time magazine reports.
Some still at the prison have claimed through their lawyers that they have been beaten or abused, Time said.
The number of prisoners under 18 […]

One section of the Intelligence Division, the Terrorist Interdiction Unit, is devoted to using informers as “listening posts” in Muslim communities. The detectives in the unit cultivate the informers, place them in various communities, oversee their work and collect and compile the information that they generate.
Despite the Police Department’s broad publicity campaign to highlight its […]

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Federal authorities are actively investigating dozens of American television stations for broadcasting items produced by the Bush administration and major corporations, and passing them off as normal news. Some of the fake news segments talked up success in the war in Iraq, or promoted the companies’ products…

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he fallout from the killing of as many as two dozen Iraqi civilians by Marines could undermine U.S. efforts in Iraq more than the Abu Ghraib prison scandal did, a lawmaker who is a prominent war critic said Sunday.
The shootings last November at Haditha, a city in the Anbar province of western Iraq that has […]

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President Bush implicitly compared himself to Harry S. Truman in a commencement address at the United States Military Academy on Saturday, saying Truman acted boldly against the “fanatic faith” of cold war communism in the same way Mr. Bush’s administration has responded to the threat of terrorism since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
“By the […]

One of the most damning pieces of evidence investigators have in their possession, John Sifton of Human Rights Watch told TIME’s Tim McGirk, is a photo, taken by a Marine with his cell phone that shows Iraqis kneeling

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Witnesses to the slaying of 24 Iraqi civilians by U.S. Marines in the western town of Haditha say the Americans shot men, women and children at close range in retaliation for the death of a Marine lance corporal in a roadside bombing.
Aws Fahmi, a Haditha resident who said he watched and listened from his home […]

How the government sidesteps the Privacy Act by purchasing commercial data
Furor and confusion over allegations that major phone companies have surrendered customer calling records to the National Security Agency continue to roil Washington. But if AT&T Inc. (T ) and possibly others have turned over records to the NSA, the phone giants represent only one […]