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In this Saturday, Oct. 4, 2008 photo, Secret Service agents watch as Air Force One departs Midland International Airport with President Bush and first lady Laura Bush aboard in Midland, Texas. The Secret Service has been tarnished by a prostitution scandal that erupted April 13, 2012 in Colombia involving 12 Secret Service agents, officers and supervisors and 12 more enlisted military personnel ahead of President Barack Obama's visit there for the Summit of the Americas. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)

Critics Challenge Secret Service Director’s ‘Isolated Incident’ Claims

Archives for مايو 2012

Military PR Firm Co-Owner Targets Journalists For Revealing Story

A USA Today newspaper box is shown in Charlotte, N.C., Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2009. Leonie Industries, a military PR firm, recently admitted to conducting a smear campaign against two USA Today journalists. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton) (MintPress)—The co-owner of a government contracted military public relations firm, Leonie Industries, admitted to hosting fake websites in the names […]

Trisha Marczak
بواسطة Trisha Marczak
A USA Today newspaper box is shown in Charlotte, N.C., Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2009. Leonie Industries, a military PR firm, recently admitted to conducting a smear campaign against two USA Today journalists. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton)

(MintPress)—The co-owner of a government contracted military public relations firm, Leonie Industries, admitted to hosting fake websites in the names of two USA Today reporters who, in February, published a not-so-favorable story on the company’s questionable effectiveness in Iraq and Afghanistan. Camille Chidiac, who started the company with

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DOJ Urged To Investigate Rape At Alabama Women’s Prison

Wendy Hobbs, left, warden of the Fluvanna Correctional Center for Women in Troy, Va., left, and Michael Frame, a major at the center, attend a hearing about rape and sexual misconduct in U.S. prisons by the Justice Department, Tuesday, April 26, 2011, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) (MintPress)—The legal non-profit Equal Justice Initiative (EJI) filed […]

Trisha Marczak
بواسطة Trisha Marczak
Wendy Hobbs, left, warden of the Fluvanna Correctional Center for Women in Troy, Va., left, and Michael Frame, a major at the center, attend a hearing about rape and sexual misconduct in U.S. prisons by the Justice Department, Tuesday, April 26, 2011, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

(MintPress)—The legal non-profit Equal Justice Initiative (EJI) filed a complaint Tuesday with the U.S. Department of Justice alleging widespread sexual abuse of female prisoners by male guards at Alabama’s Tutwiler Prison for Women. In a report that included interviews with more than 50 women who served at the prison, EJI, which offers legal

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Heartland Institute Compares Climate Change Theorists To Unabomber

Czech Republic President Vaclav Klaus speaks on the subject of his newly published English version book, "Blue Planet in Green Shackles – What Is Endangered: Climate or Freedom?" at the National Press Club on Tuesday, May 27, 2008 in Washington. Klaus attended the 7th International Conference on Climate Change, presented by the Heartland Institute May […]

Martin Michaels
بواسطة Martin Michaels
Czech Republic President Vaclav Klaus speaks on the subject of his newly published English version book, "Blue Planet in Green Shackles - What Is Endangered: Climate or Freedom?" at the National Press Club on Tuesday, May 27, 2008 in Washington. Klaus attended the 7th International Conference on Climate Change, presented by the Heartland Institute May 21-23, 2012. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf)

(Mint Press)— The conservative Heartland Institute held its seventh annual climate change denial conference in Chicago earlier this week. With fewer than 300 people in attendance. Heartland CEO Joseph Bast admitted the lack of adequate funding and issued an urgent plea for donations to meet payrolls. The dearth of funds stems from a previous

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NATO Aftermath: Occupy Denounces Anarchist Black Bloc Tactics

Black-clad protesters, some holding sticks or wearing masks and hoods, argue with a man at left who confronted them about violence nearby earlier in the day Tuesday, May 1, 2012, in downtown Seattle. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson) (NEW YORK) MintPress — Chicago is looking forward to a somewhat more tranquil weekend now that the NATO summit […]

Lisa Barron
بواسطة Lisa Barron
Black-clad protesters, some holding sticks or wearing masks and hoods, argue with a man at left who confronted them about violence nearby earlier in the day Tuesday, May 1, 2012, in downtown Seattle. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

(NEW YORK) MintPress — Chicago is looking forward to a somewhat more tranquil weekend now that the NATO summit has ended and the onslaught of world leaders and their delegations, not to mention protesters, has left town. Ever since Chicagoans learned that their city would host the May 20-21 summit, many feared the kinds of scenes that played out

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Petition Calls For Open Court: Bradley Manning Case More Secretive Than Guantanamo Suspects’ Hearings

Protestors supporting Pfc. Bradley Manning gather outside Ft. Meade, Md., Saturday, Dec. 17, 2011. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana) (MintPress) – The likes of Julian Assange, Democracy Now!’s Amy Goodman and The Nation and the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) are calling for more transparency in the trial and prosecution of military whistleblower Bradley Manning. Since […]

Joey LeMay
بواسطة Joey LeMay
Protestors supporting Pfc. Bradley Manning gather outside Ft. Meade, Md., Saturday, Dec. 17, 2011, where prosecutors begin presenting their case against him as the source for the WikiLeaks website's collection of U.S. military and diplomatic secrets. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

(MintPress) – The likes of Julian Assange, Democracy Now!’s Amy Goodman and The Nation and the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) are calling for more transparency in the trial and prosecution of military whistleblower Bradley Manning. Since his arrest in 2010 for allegedly leaking confidential wartime documents and video from Iraq to the

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Broadcasters Sue to…Block Transparency

News anchors discuss the news on the air. (Photo by Scott S.) The National Association of Broadcasters is asking a federal appeals court to block a rule passed by the Federal Communications Commission last month requiring TV stations to post political ad data on the Internet. In a petition for review filed Monday with the […]

Justin Elliot
بواسطة Justin Elliot
News anchors discuss the news on the air. (Photo by Scott S.)

The National Association of Broadcasters is asking a federal appeals court to block a rule passed by the Federal Communications Commission last month requiring TV stations to post political ad data on the Internet. In a petition for review filed Monday with the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C., the broadcast industry group argues that

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