Background This lawsuit was filed due to our request to view ballots was denied by the Registrar of Voters, Michael Vu. The goal of this request and the first few...
Duncan Opponents on Hunger Strikes By JANIE LORBER Rep. Duncan D. Hunter s challengers want to debate him so badly they can taste it probably because they haven...
Candidates Go On Hunger Strike, Jack Daniels Woos Reporters With Booze and More in Capital Eye Opener: August 19 By Evan Mackinder on August 19, 2010 10:10 AM Yo...
No Partisan Politics Please Randy Dotinga's contemptuous and misleading description of the hunger strike by the Congressional challengers to Duncan Hunter's son n...
LUTZ, BENOIT HUNGER STRIKES GAIN NATIONAL MEDIA ATTENTION Candidates are hungry for debate with Rep. Duncan Hunter East County News Service August 22, 2010 (San...
GOP Convention and the Duncan Hunter Hunger Strike CityBeat grades the Prop 20 T Shirt, DeMaio's Pension Tsunami and Lutz and Benoit's media stunt By CityBeat Sta...
30 False Fronts Won Contracts for Blackwater By JAMES RISEN and MARK MAZZETTI Published: September 3, 2010 WASHINGTON Blackwater Worldwide created a web of mo...
Published: March 6, 2011 Are State and Local Government Employees Paid Too Much? It s not an easy question to answer for a number of reasons. Here s a primer on ...
By JAMES RISEN WASHINGTON A federal appeals court on Friday reopened the criminal case against four former American military contractors accused of manslaughter...
Secret Desert Force Set Up by Blackwater s Founder By MARK MAZZETTI and EMILY B. HAGER ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates Late one night last November, a plane ca...
April 19, 2007 Blackwater Plans for New Military Facility Near San Diego Draws Fire From Residents, Peace Activists and Local Congressmember The private secur...
This event was sponsored by the League of Women Voters and Common Cause, and was held in Carlsbad, CA on January 25, 2013. * Welcome Mary Crowley, President,...
Late in the evening on Wednesday, one of the busiest and most unnerving times Washington has seen in a long while, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid quietly appoi...
Edison International's CEO Hosts San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station Update Conference (Transcript) Jun 7 2013, 16:40 about: EIX Executives Janet T. Clayton ...
This case finds: * A citizen can record city council meetings to allow for expression under first amendment * "the ban on Thompson's tape recorder has s...
Plan to Track Quake Threat Is Questioned By JOHN UPTON A hulking research vessel would haul air guns, echo sounders and other instruments along the California co...
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Published: September 17, 2007 Filed at 11:48 a.m. ET BAGHDAD (AP) The Iraqi government said Monday that it was revoking the license of a...
Tue Sep 18, 10:52 AM ET TheNation The news that the Iraqi government has banned Blackwater USA, the notorious mercenary firm, from operating in the country reve...
By JeremyScahill, TheNation So far Blackwater has only received a slap on the wrist after killing innocent civilians. Are the U.S. and Iraqi governments finally r...
Blamed in the deaths of Iraqi civilians, the private security firm has long ties to the White House and prominent Republicans, including Ken Starr. By Ben Van Heu...
Recently, I have read a number of documents that claim to have detected likely fraud in an election because the results did not comply with the "law of large numb...
Inside the Turmoil at the Agency Running Ranked Choice Voting The New York City Board of Elections, which has a history of mishaps, is now under intense fire for ...
JeremyScahill on Blackwater http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/10192007/transcript1.html October 19, 2007 Bill Moyers talks journalist Jeremy Scahill, Part 1 BILL...
By FrankRich The NewYorkTimes Sunday 21 October 2007 It was one of those stories lost in the newspaper's inside pages. Last week a man you've never heard of ...
By MiriamRaftery and LeonThompson The AlpineSun POTRERO #8212; #8220;Mercenaries are dangerous to American democracy, #8221; Congressman Bob Filner (D San ...
'Working as a team' Blackwater fury shelved as Potrero reacts to Harris fire By Pat Sherman 10/30/2007 Jan Hedlun sat on the front porch of the Potrero General St...
By JOHN M. BRODER and JAMES RISEN Published: November 1, 2007 Correction Appended WASHINGTON, Oct. 31 #8212; Blackwater Worldwide, its reputation in tatters and ...
at the end of lines that need to break but don't need a blank line. * Mark sub headline with header 3 " " By Noah Shachtman EmailOctober 31, 2007 1:59:11...
Thanks to some high stakes legal maneuvering, Blackwater USA may yet manage to avoid a public examination of the bloody event that catapulted the company to world...
at the end of lines that need to break but don't need a blank line. * Mark sub headline with header 3 " " October 5, 2007, 5:10 pm By Patrick Healy Mark Penn ...
at the end of lines that need to break but don't need a blank line. * Mark sub headline with header 3 " " By JAMES GLANZ and ALISSA J. RUBIN Published: Octobe...
Tarnishing Iraq mission by covering up for Blackwater November 06, 2007 When it comes to the Bush administration's definition of "sovereignty," "immunity" and "ac...
By DAVID STOUT and JOHN M. BRODER Published: October 1, 2007 WASHINGTON, Oct. 1 #8212; Guards working in Iraq for Blackwater USA have shot innocent Iraqi civilia...
Thursday, October 11th, 2007 The Center for Constitutional Rights is filing a lawsuit today under the Alien Tort Claims Act on behalf of the families of three of ...
For Immediate Release Not to Be Missed Extraordinary Evening with Two of the Most Dynamic Voices of the New Generation of Independent Unembedded Journalists: A Di...
The transformation of Blackwater USA from a private security firm into the newest branch of the U.S. military has for years been a source of friction and suspicio...
By Karen DeYoung Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, November 14, 2007; 1:33 PM The FBI has concluded that the killing of 14 Iraqi civilians by Blackwater sec...
By DAVID JOHNSTON and JOHN M. BRODER Published: November 14, 2007 WASHINGTON, Nov. 13 #8212; Federal agents investigating the Sept. 16 episode in which Blackwat...
Editorial Published: November 16, 2007 A report in The Times this week says that the F.B.I. is reaching the same horrifying conclusion as the Iraqi authorities: t...
Reuters Saturday, November 17, 2007; 7:35 PM WASHINGTON (Reuters) The lawyer for State Department Inspector General Howard Krongard asked on Saturday that he no...
BAGHDAD (AFP) #8212; Iraqi soldiers detained a group of private security guards after they opened fire in central Baghdad on Monday wounding a woman and rekindli...
By DAVID JOHNSTON and JOHN M. BRODER Published: November 20, 2007 WASHINGTON, Nov. 19 #8212; Federal prosecutors have issued grand jury subpoenas to some of the ...
By SCOTT SHANE Published: November 17, 2007 BALTIMORE, Nov. 16 #8212; They were smart, scrappy brothers who rose from modest circumstances in Baltimore to become...
The Turret Gunner Says He Feared For His Life As He Opened Fire By BRIAN ROSS Nov. 14, 2007 A 29 year old U.S. Army veteran hired by Blackwater last year is at t...
November 15, 2007 Brian Ross Reports: The State Department plans to equip its motorcade security details in Iraq with lasers to "dazzle" suspect motorists and hel...
By ERIC SCHMITT and PAUL von ZIELBAUER WASHINGTON, Dec. 4 #8212; Gen. David H. Petraeus, the top United States commander in Iraq, and Ryan C. Crocker, the Americ...
By Christian Berthelsen, Los Angeles Times December 9, 2007 BAGHDAD The security contractor settled into the back of the armored Mercedes parked under the C...
Posted December 12, 2007 05:14 AM (EST) A tiny town in the pristine high wilderness of eastern San Diego County made history tonight with the nation's first eve...
BAGHDAD (Reuters) The U.S. embassy in Iraq is investigating another deadly shooting incident involving its Blackwater bodyguards this time of the New York Tim...
By Bill Sizemore On Christmas Eve 2006, in an alcohol fueled confrontation inside Baghdad #8217;s heavily fortified Green Zone, a Blackwater security contractor s...
January 10, 2008 By JAMES RISEN WASHINGTON #8212; The helicopter was hovering over a Baghdad checkpoint into the Green Zone, one typically crowded with cars, Ira...
On January 16, the New York Times reported that Justice Department officials have informed Congress of #8220;serious legal difficulties #8221; in prosecuting Bla...
By Karthik Reddy February 04, 2008 The Bush administration has responded to America #8217;s new military commitments by relying heavily on mercenaries. These ...
Posted February 8, 2008 05:54 PM (EST) Matt Rothschild's astonishing expose of the FBI's decision to "deputize" 23,000 representatives of private industry refle...
by JEREMY SCAHILL from the March 17, 2008 issue Update from Jeremy Scahill: A day after this story went live on TheNation.com, Senator Hillary Clinton, whose st...
02/22/2008 @ 9:54 am Filed by Michael Roston As John McCain's reputation as a family man and a politician with a clean ethical record came under attack on Thursda...
Chris Hedges is a graduate of Harvard Divinity School and won a Pulitzer Prize as a foreign correspondent for the New York Times. Armed units from the private sec...
Winning the prestigious George Polk award is bittersweet vindication for investigative journalist Jeremy Scahill. His book, "Blackwater: The Rise of the World's M...
Is there an ethics that justifies Blackwater? The state, Max Weber wrote in his classic essay "Politics as a Vocation," "is a human community that (successfully) ...
Since U.S. forces began bombarding Iraq in 2003, the impact of the war has been felt far beyond the battlefields. Monday, March 17, 2008 2004 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIO...
Published: March 24, 2008 As the nonpareil war profiteer in Iraq, Blackwater Worldwide keeps outdoing its own mercenary record. Ranking Blackwater executives have...
Neither Clinton nor Obama has a real plan to end the occupation of Iraq, but they could be forced to change position By Naomi Klein and Jeremy Scahill The Guardi...
By ADAM LIPTAK Securing the nation #8217;s borders is so important, Congress says, that Michael Chertoff, the homeland security secretary, must have the power to ...
BAGHDAD #8212; Iraq's foreign minister said Tuesday that the United States had agreed to lift immunity for foreign security contractors operating in Iraq, making ...
Independent Oversight Body Will Tackle Systemic Waste, Fraud, and Abuse Washington, DC #8211; Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Speaker Nancy Pelosi have nam...
by Sandra Svoboda Training Iraqi soldiers in SWAT procedures didn't seem like mercenary work to Greg, who took a yearlong leave of absence from a Midwestern polic...
by Matthew Schwarzfeld July 14, 2008 12:04 pm EDT Tags: Blackwater, Iraq, Military Contractor Abuse Scandal July 14: This post has been corrected. Private secu...
The Democratic leadership in Congress is once again gearing up for a great sell out on the Iraq war. While the wrangling over the $124 billion Iraq supplemental s...
New Evidence That Blackwater Guards Took No Fire The view on Friday of Nisour Square in Baghdad from the roof at the southwest corner. On Sept. 16, Blackwater ve...
Monica Almedia/The New York Times By FELICITY BARRINGER Published: August 28, 2008 SAN FRANCISCO California, known for its far ranging suburbs and jam packed tr...
Infrastructure issues nationwide take wind out of clean energy's sails By Matthew L. Wald NEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE August 28, 2008 When the builders of the M...
New Fence Will Split a Border Park Sandy Huffaker for The New York Times Through a border fence, Jacqueline Huerta touched her niece, Yisell Martinez, who was...
In his first in depth interview, the former CIA head of counterterrorism and current vice chair of Blackwater talks about trying to warn President Bush before the...
November 10, 2008 By ERIC SCHMITT and MARK MAZZETTI WASHINGTON The United States military since 2004 has used broad, secret authority to carry out nearly a doze...
One of the most perceptive critics of the administration of George W. Bush in his New York Times bestsellers Conservatives Without Conscience and Worse Than Water...
From tech stocks to high gas prices, Goldman Sachs has engineered every major market manipulation since the Great Depression and they're about to do it again MA...
By ADAM GOLDMAN and PAMELA HESS, The Associated Press 3:47 a.m. August 31, 2009 FILE In this Oct. 2, 2007, file photo, Blackwater USA founder, Erik Prince, tes...
The New York TimesAugust 20, 2009 C.I.A. Sought Blackwater's Help to Kill Jihadists By MARK MAZZETTI WASHINGTON The Central Intelligence Agency in 2004 hired o...
By JAMES RISEN and MARK MAZZETTI WASHINGTON From a secret division at its North Carolina headquarters, the company formerly known as Blackwater has assumed a ro...
Blackwater Said to Pursue Bribes to Iraq After 17 Died By MARK MAZZETTI and JAMES RISEN WASHINGTON Top executives at Blackwater Worldwide authorized secret paym...
The New York Times November 19, 2009 By MARK MAZZETTI and JAMES RISEN WASHINGTON The international security company formerly called Blackwater Worldwide is fac...
The New York TimesDecember 12, 2009 Blackwater Loses a Job for the C.I.A. By MARK MAZZETTI WASHINGTON The Central Intelligence Agency has terminated a contract...
By CHARLIE SAVAGE Published: December 31, 2009 WASHINGTON In a significant blow to the Justice Department, a federal judge on Thursday threw out the indictment ...
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Get Bumper Stickers! Objective: Permanent decommissioning of San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS) WE WON! Southern California Edison announced a pe...