We’ve all seen a television show or a movie about an undercover narcotics cop who become crooked. He loses the trust of his colleagues, then his family. Soon, the only contacts he has are with the world of drug dealers that he originally set out to destroy. Now picture this scenario of the criminal cop [...]
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Also tagged Afghanistan, CIA, Cocaine, Colombia, Crime, DEA, Douglas Valentine, Drug Policy, Drug Trafficking, FBI, Heroin, Informers, Intelligence, Law, Narcs, Pakistan, Terrorism, The Phoenix Program, Vietnam War, War on Drugs
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Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Wow, the corruption is/was worse than even my imagination is capable of thinking up… and the DoJ isn’t taking action? WTF?
The former employees who filed the lawsuit, a married couple named Brad and Melan Davis, said there was little financial oversight of the money.
Last year, an audit by the special inspector general for Iraq reconstruction [...]
Is there any hope at all that the larger players in the Bush-era criminal activities – Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rove, Perle, Feith and Wolfowitz most prominently – will be brought to justice when those two lesser lights (Yoo and Bybee) are allowed to return to a law school classroom and a seat on the federal [...]
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Also tagged Accountability, Barack Obama, Condoleezza Rice, Corporatism, Crime, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Douglas Feith, George W Bush, Jay Bybee, John Yoo, Karl Rove, Law, Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Perle, Rule of Law, War Crimes, William Rivers Pitt
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You’ve heard plenty about the big banks’ role in the Great Recession, but their headaches are about to get worse.
At a packed hearing today, the Senate investigations subcommittee led by Sen. Carl Levin (D-MI) shed new light on banks’ negligence and wrongdoing—and this time it’s not credit-default swaps or derivatives but money laundering and arms dealers. The [...]
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Also tagged Angola, Bailouts, Bank of America, Banking, Carl Levin, Citibank, Corporatism, Crime, Financial Sector, Great Recession, HSBC, Lobbyists, Money Laundering, Senate, Shell Corporations
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Thursday, February 4, 2010
The 325-page report by the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, which will conduct a hearing on Thursday, sheds new light on how banks like Citigroup, Wachovia and Bank of America unwittingly shifted hundreds of millions of dollars on behalf of African politicians, their relatives and associates.
The banks ended up closing or restricting the accounts and cooperated [...]
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Also tagged Bailouts, Bank of America, Banking, Carl Levin, Citigroup, Corporatism, Financial Sector, Fraud, Money Laundering, PEP, Regulation, Shell Corporations, Wachovia
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Tuesday, February 2, 2010
Exposing this entirely legal labyrinth of ownership took years of interagency pick-and-ax work. In the end it demonstrated how nefarious activity — even as high profile as this — can go on for years, right under authorities’ noses. It’s also meant that tenants of the prestigious Manhattan property have been paying millions in rent to [...]
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Also tagged Alavi Foundation, Bank Melli, Banking, Business, Cayman Islands, Corporatism, Delaware, Drug Trafficking, Financial Secrecy, Financial Sector, Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, IMF, Iran, Law, Money Laundering, Offshore Banking, Panama, Semion Mogilevich, Shell Companies, Shell Corporations, Sinaloa, Switzerland, Tax Evasion, Tax Havens, Terrorism Funding, Transparency, Victor Bout
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As the Senate works to craft a shield law, one crucial issue is determining who is a journalist. In other words, whose promises of confidentiality deserve protection?
For me, it’s always instructive to go back to the founders when addressing questions like these. Who did they have in mind when they drafted a 1st Amendment that [...]
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Also tagged Bloggers, Citizen Journalists, Confidentiality, Freedom of Press, Journalism, Journalists, Media, Reporters, Senate, Shield Law, Ted Kaufman, Whistleblowers
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The “war”, declared unilaterally throughout the world by Richard Nixon in 1969, is expiring as its strategists start discarding plans that have proved futile over four decades: they are preparing to withdraw their agents from narcotics battlefields from Colombia to Afghanistan and beginning to coach them in the art of trumpeting victory and melting away into [...]
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Also tagged Afghanistan, Bolivia, Cannabis, CIA, Coca, Colombia, Decriminalization, Drug Trafficking, Ecuador, Latin America, Mexico, Richard Nixon, South America, Venezuela, War on Drugs
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Sunday, November 29, 2009
The practice of appointing campaign donors instead of state department professionals has a long tradition in the US. However, many had hoped that Obama would reduce such displays of patronage.
That has not happened. Since taking office, Obama has made almost 80 ambassadorial nominations, of which 56% went to political appointees.
“It is time to end the [...]
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Top executives at Blackwater Worldwide [now known as Xe] authorized secret payments of about $1 million to Iraqi officials that were intended to silence their criticism and buy their support after a September 2007 episode in which Blackwater security guards fatally shot 17 Iraqi civilians in Baghdad, according to former company officials.
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Four former executives said [...]
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Also tagged Blackwater, Bribery, Cofer Black, Contractors, Crime, Erik Prince, Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, Gary Jackson, Iraq War, Manslaughter, Nisour Square, Weapons Smuggling, Xe
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