Citizens For Legitimate Government 18 Nov 2009 http://www.legitgov.org Breaking: Judge: Corps' negligence caused Katrina flooding 18 Nov 2009 A federal judge ruled Wednesday that the Army Corps of Engineers' failure to properly maintain a navigation channel led to massive flooding in Hurricane Katrina. U.S. District Judge Stanwood Duval sided with five residents and one business who argued the Army Corps' shoddy oversight of the Mississippi River-Gulf Outlet led to the flooding of New Orleans' Lower Ninth Ward and neighboring St. Bernard Parish. Duval awarded the plaintiffs $720,000, or about $170,000 each, but the decision could eventually make the government vulnerable to a much larger payout. http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iIy4xSxWMklRKM-ko9fXC2sW3_XgD9C2ANT01 CIA Secret 'Torture' Prison Found at Fancy Horseback Riding Academy --ABC News Finds the Location of a "Black Site" for Alleged Terrorists in Lithuania 18 Nov 2009 The CIA built one of its secret European prisons inside an exclusive riding academy outside Vilnius, Lithuania, a current Lithuanian government official and a former U.S. intelligence official told ABC News this week. Where affluent Lithuanians once rode show horses and sipped coffee at a café, the CIA installed a concrete structure where it could use harsh tactics torture to interrogate up to eight suspected 'al-Qaeda' terrorists at a time. "The activities in that prison were illegal," said human rights researcher John Sifton. "They included various forms of torture, including sleep deprivation, forced standing, painful stress positions." http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/cia-secret-prison-found/story?id=9115978 MI5 and MI6 given go ahead for secret hearings into abuse 18 Nov 2009 MI5 and MI6 have been given permission to hold hearings behind closed doors into their alleged complicity in the treatment of seven former detainees in Guantanamo Bay. A High Court judge ruled there was no reason in law why closed hearings should not be used in the damages case, even though it had never been used in such a case before. The judge said the "closed material" procedure entitled the defendants not to disclose matters to the claimants or their lawyers where disclosure would be contrary to the interests of national security, the international relations of the UK or in any other circumstances where it was likely to harm the public interest. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/6600344/MI5-and-MI6-given-go-ahead-for-secret-hearings-into-abuse.html Secret evidence blow hits Guantanamo seven --Agencies such as MI5 and MI6 could rely on secret evidence in their defence 18 Nov 2009 Britain’s security services should be able to withhold evidence from claimants in civil court cases, the High Court ruled today. In a decision which could have far-reaching legal implications, Mr Justice Silber ruled that agencies such as MI5 and MI6 could rely on secret evidence in their defence, if disclosing the evidence would compromise national security. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/secret-evidence-blow-hits-guantanamo-seven-1822987.html Guantanamo won't close by January: Obama 18 Nov 2009 U.S. President Barack Obama has acknowledged that he will not be able to meet his pledge to close the controversial detention centre at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, by January. One of Obama's first acts as president was to sign an executive order to close the facility within a year, a move he said would restore his country’s "moral high ground." But his plan ran into roadblocks... The U.S. Senate in May voted 90-6 against allowing funds requested to shut down the facility or use the funds to transfer prisoners to U.S. soil. http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2009/11/18/obama-guantanamo.html Obama suggests 9/11 suspect will get death penalty 18 Nov 2009 U.S. President Barack Obama suggested on Wednesday the self-professed mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks [Dick Cheney?] would be convicted and put to death, but later said he was not trying to prejudge the trial. Speaking in television interviews while traveling in Asia, Obama acknowledged he would miss his Jan. 22 deadline to close the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is now held, but said he believed it would be shut next year. http://www.reuters.com/article/companyNewsAndPR/idUSN1847521320091118 Republican senators, Holder clash over terrorism trials 18 Nov 2009 Republican senators confronted Attorney General Eric Holder on Wednesday over his decision to try the Sept. 11 terrorism suspects in civilian court. President Barack Obama, meanwhile, [insanely] expressed certainty that they'll be found guilty and executed. Holder didn't go as far as Obama did in his testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee, though the nation's top prosecutor said he was confident that justice would be delivered to Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and other accused plotters of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. [As an attorney, Barack Obama should know that the President should not be expressing such sentiments, prior to a trial.] http://www.mcclatchydc.com/politics/story/79130.html 'This is our surge.' Calif. city uses Iraq, Afghanistan combat veterans in counterinsurgency strategy --"What was strange was the look on his face was very similar to a bunch of the insurgents we'd captured" in Diyala province. 15 Nov 2009 Since February, combat veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan have been advising Salinas police on counterinsurgency strategy, bringing lessons from the battlefield to the streets in an American city. "This is our surge," said Mayor Dennis Donohue, who solicited the assistance from the elite Naval Postgraduate School, 20 miles away in Monterey. "It's a little laboratory," said retired Col. Hy Rothstein, the former Army career officer in Special Forces who heads the team of 15 faculty members and students... "The idea was, not just Salinas," Ferrari said, "but is there a national model for this?" [The implementation of a 'national model' will give rise to an *actual* insurgency. And, if you want to know how all that will turn out, watch 'The Battle of Algiers.' --LRP] http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/14/AR2009111400915.html Bank Bonuses Surge: Goldman Sachs Executives May Earn More Than In 2006 By Daniel M. Harrison 17 Nov 2009 While many Americans will count themselves lucky to be drawing any kind of income at all this year, bonus payments will rise by 40 percent for most bankers, according to a recent survey conducted by New York-based Options Group. The survey’s results are supported by recent NYSE data which suggests that Bank of America, Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, Morgan Stanley, and Wells Fargo have set aside $112 billion in compensation for their employees this year. The exchange adds that for many bankers, compensation will exceed the amount they earned in 2007... In fact, in the case of Goldman Sachs, average salary payouts are likely to top even those in 2006, a year in which the global economy zoomed ahead. http://industry.bnet.com/financial-services/10004979/bank-bonuses-surge-goldman-sachs-executives-may-earn-more-than-in-2006/ Nuclear scars: Tainted water runs beneath Nevada desert --Radioactive waste from Nevada Test Site has polluted aquifers 13 Nov 2009 A sea of ancient water tainted by the Cold War [US] is creeping deep under the volcanic peaks, dry lake beds and pinyon pine forests covering a vast tract of Nevada. Over 41 years, the [US] federal government detonated 921 nuclear warheads underground at the Nevada Test Site, 75 miles northeast of Las Vegas. Each explosion deposited a toxic load of radioactivity into the ground and, in some cases, directly into aquifers. When testing ended in 1992, the Energy Department estimated that more than 300 million curies of radiation had been left behind, making the site one of the most radioactively contaminated places in the nation. http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-radiation-nevada13-2009nov13,0,3038881.story more here:http://www.legitgov.org/#breaking_news -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ShadowGovernment" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/shadowgovernment?hl=.
