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Attorney General Eric Holder testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2012, before a House Appropriations subcommittee hearing on the Justice Department's fiscal 2013 budget. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

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Agents posing as Occupiers infiltrate movement with disruptive behavior

Photos from the camp in Zuccotti Park and the march against police brutality, walking to One Police Plaza, headquarters of the NYPD. (Photo by David Shankbone) (NEW YORK) MintPress — The infiltration of political movements by governments and law enforcement agents has been standard practice for centuries.  Prominent targets in recent years have included environmental […]

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Photos from the camp in Zuccotti Park and the march against police brutality, walking to One Police Plaza, headquarters of the NYPD. (Photo by David Shankbone)

(NEW YORK) MintPress — The infiltration of political movements by governments and law enforcement agents has been standard practice for centuries.  Prominent targets in recent years have included environmental organization Greenpeace and human rights advocate Amnesty International. Also under surveillance have been gay and lesbian rights activists,

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Despite campaign promises, Obama indicts twice as many whistleblowers

President Barack Obama speaks at the United Auto Workers conference in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2012. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) (MintPress) – John Kiriakou went to journalists with the identities of Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officers and their use of questionable interrogation techniques, including waterboarding – a simulated drowning technique that is illegal under international law. A […]

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President Barack Obama speaks at the United Auto Workers conference in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2012. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

(MintPress) – John Kiriakou went to journalists with the identities of Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officers and their use of questionable interrogation techniques, including waterboarding – a simulated drowning technique that is illegal under international law. A former CIA officer himself, Kiriakou exposed the usage of the torture against

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50 years later, JFK speech part of culture war

FILE – In this Feb. 27, 2012 file photo, Republican presidential candidate, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum speaks in Livonia, Mich. When Santorum recently rebuked John F. Kennedy's 1960 speech on religion, he was repeating a common conservative view that the address did more harm than good. Santorum, competing for conservatives votes in a close […]

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FILE - In this Feb. 27, 2012 file photo, Republican presidential candidate, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum speaks in Livonia, Mich. When Santorum recently rebuked John F. Kennedy's 1960 speech on religion, he was repeating a common conservative view that the address did more harm than good. Santorum, competing for conservatives votes in a close GOP presidential primary with Republican Mitt Romney, argued that more religion was needed in American public life. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

When Rick Santorum rebuked John F. Kennedy's 1960 speech on religion, he was repeating a common conservative view that the address did more harm than good. In an interview Sunday with ABC's "This Week," Santorum, a Roman Catholic Republican, said he "almost threw up" when he read the remarks by Kennedy, who told the Greater Houston Ministerial

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Death toll rises to 3 in Ohio school shooting

A group of students and parents pray for victims of a school shooting on the square in Chardon, Ohio Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2012. A gunman opened fire inside the Chardon High School cafeteria at the start of the school day Monday. Two of the victims have died and wounding three remain hospitalized. (AP Photo/Mark Duncan) […]

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A group of students and parents pray for victims of a school shooting on the square in Chardon, Ohio Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2012. A gunman opened fire inside the Chardon High School cafeteria at the start of the school day Monday. Two of the victims have died and wounding three remain hospitalized. (AP Photo/Mark Duncan)

CHARDON, Ohio (AP) — The death toll rose to three Tuesday in the shooting rampage in an Ohio high school cafeteria as schoolmates and townspeople grappled with the tragedy and wondered what could have set the teenage gunman off. The teenager under arrest in Monday's attack, T.J. Lane, entered a courthouse Tuesday afternoon for a juvenile

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Romney fights to avoid home-state embarrassment

Volunteers hold up signs behind Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney as he takes questions from reporters while visiting a campaign call center in Livonia, Mich., Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2012. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert) GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) — Mitt Romney hoped to avoid an embarrassing home-state loss in Tuesday’s Michigan primary but blamed […]

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Volunteers hold up signs behind Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney as he takes questions from reporters while visiting a campaign call center in Livonia, Mich., Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2012. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) — Mitt Romney hoped to avoid an embarrassing home-state loss in Tuesday's Michigan primary but blamed his difficulty attracting needed support from the state's conservative Republicans on his unwillingness "to light my hair on fire" to get their votes. Rival Rick Santorum, meanwhile, defended his campaign's use of

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Israel wouldn’t warn US on Iran strike

White House Press Secretary Jay Carney speaks during the daily briefing at the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2012. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) WASHINGTON (AP) — Israeli officials say they won’t warn the U.S. if they decide to launch a pre-emptive strike against Iranian nuclear facilities. The pronouncement, delivered in a series of private, […]

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White House Press Secretary Jay Carney speaks during the daily briefing at the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2012. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

WASHINGTON (AP) — Israeli officials say they won't warn the U.S. if they decide to launch a pre-emptive strike against Iranian nuclear facilities. The pronouncement, delivered in a series of private, top-level conversations with U.S. officials, sets a tense tone ahead of meetings in the coming days at the White House and on Capitol Hill. Israeli

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