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Many Investigations But Few Referred for Prosecution

The FBI now reports conducting more than 10,000 terrorism investigations a year. By contrast, just released Justice Department data show that in the fiscal year ending September 30, 2001 that all the criminal investigative agencies of the government asked federal prosecutors to bring criminal charges against 463 individuals who the assistant U.S. Attorneys had identified as being involved in either international or domestic terrorism. (more…)

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department increasingly has refused to prosecute FBI cases targeting suspected terrorists over the past five years, according to private researchers who reviewed department records. (more…)

The Terrorism Case that Wasn’t
One Year On, ‘Help the Needy’ Case Still Shrouded in Mystery, Innuendo
by Madeleine Baran The New Standard 2/29/04

A Muslim American doctor held without bail for providing charity aid to Iraq against sanctions speaks out for the first time about his cause. Under insinuations of terror that won’t go away, the case may put US-Iraq policy on trial. (more…)

by Paul Balles Atlantic Free Press 11/4/06

Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost. –Thomas Jefferson

There’s no such thing as objectivity. Everything is seen through conditioned eyes. What we love or hate depends on the kind of washing our brains have been subjected to. That theory is verifiable. The practical evidence can be seen in the world’s press. (more…)

by Dave Robinson commondreams.org 11/4/06

Some months ago, Pax Christi USA entered into a partnership with two-dozen national Catholic organizations to create Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good. This important initiative seeks to educate voters, the media and politicians about the foundational role of the common good in Catholic Social Teaching (more…)

By Nick Turse TomDispatch.com 11/2/06

The Bush administration as global jailor.

Today, the United States presides over a burgeoning empire – not only the “empire of bases” first described by Chalmers Johnson, but a far-flung new network of maximum security penitentiaries, detention centers, jail cells, cages, and razor wire-topped pens. (more…)

By John Pilger ICH 11/03/06

On 17 October, President Bush signed a bill that legalised torture and kidnapping and in effect repealed the Bill of Rights and habeas corpus. The CIA can now legally abduct people and “render” them to secret prisons in countries where they are likely to be tortured. Evidence extracted under torture is now permissible in “military commissions”; people can be sentenced to death based on testimony beaten out of witnesses. (more…)

by Josh Silver and Robert W. McChesney Commondreams.org 11/3/06

This week we learned that some 90 major corporations demanded that their ads be pulled from radio stations that run Air America programming, demonstrating the fundamental challenge facing everyone working to promote critical journalism and a vibrant free press. (more…)