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AP Files Suit For FBI’s Refusal To Come Clean On ‘Fake Reporter’ Operations

‘While the public clearly has a strong, compelling interest in knowing more about the FBI’s use of this tactic, the FBI seems determined to withhold that information,’ says lawyer involved with the case.

Jon Queally
بواسطة Jon Queally
FBI Director James Comey is under fire, and now facing a lawsuit, for the agency's impersonation of an AP reporter. "We cannot overstate how damaging it is for federal agents to pose as journalists," said Katie Townsend of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press. (Photo: AP File/Evan Vucci)

Following public outrage expressed when it was first discovered last year, the Associated Press took legal action against the Department of Justice on Thursday for the FBI's failure to come clean about details surrounding its decision to  impersonate an AP reporter as part of a covert investigation. Along with the Reporters Committee for Freedom

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Mnar Muhawesh: Nearly 8 Million Muslim Casualties In US-Led War On Terror

MintPress founder and editor in chief, Mnar Muhawesh, joins RT America to discuss the misconceptions about the war on terror and the true costs of war.

Mnar Adley
بواسطة Mnar Adley
War on Terror Circa 2004

The biggest misconception about the war on terror is that it started in 2003 with the US invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan. But the truth is, that war was just an extension and continuation of US led military operations in those nations from the early 80s and 90s, bringing the actual death toll of Muslims to as high as 8 million. These wars

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Centcom Defends Skewing ISIS War Intel

Centcom insists that the final report’s content was theirs to decide.

Jason Ditz
بواسطة Jason Ditz
Islamic State group militants hold up their flag as they patrol in a commandeered American in Fallujah, 40 miles (65 kilometers) west of Baghdad, Iraq. (AP Photo)

While most of the Pentagon is going out of its way to avoid comment on yesterday’s revelation of an ongoing inspectors general investigation into deliberate “skewing” of intelligence assessments on the ISIS war by Centcom, the Central Command itself is defiant, insisting that it acted entirely appropriately in its reports. In their new

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Vatican And Palestine May Raise UN Flags Before Francis’ Visit

Many states have shown support for the Palestinians’ pursuit of statehood, including the Vatican. In May, the Vatican officially recognized the state of Palestine in their first formal, bilateral treaty. Israel’s foreign ministry said it was “disappointed”.

IMEMC News
بواسطة IMEMC News

In a move likely to upset Israel's government, Palestinians and the Vatican are seeking to raise their flags at UN headquarters -- just in time for Pope Francis' visit, next month. According to Al Ray/AP, supporters of the idea hope that the UN General Assembly will adopt a resolution on the flag-raising shortly before the pope arrives. They're

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Judge Sentenced To 28 Years For Selling ‘Kids For Cash’ To Prisons

Now that Ciaverella has been locked up, that solves one problem, but raises an important question that few are asking: was this an isolated incident, or are there more just like him who have made similar deals with prisons across the United States.

Reagan Ali | Counter Current News
بواسطة Reagan Ali | Counter Current News
Mark Ciavarella, center, leaves the federal courthouse in Scranton, Pa., in this Feb. 12, 2009 file photo. The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has overturned hundreds of juvenile convictions issued by Ciavarella.

A Pennsylvania judge in Pennsylvania was just sentenced to 28 years in prison for selling “kids-for-cash.” The bribery scandal made headlines when Former Luzerne County Judge Mark Ciavarella Jr. was alleged to have taking $1 million in bribes from juvenile detention centers to fill their cells with children who came before him in court. The

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As Obama’s War In Iraq And Syria Rumbles On, Are Intel Books Getting Cooked?

As Obama’s War in Iraq and Syria Rumbles On, Are Intel Books Getting Cooked?

Jon Queally
بواسطة Jon Queally
ISIS Obama

Calling to mind the subterfuge made infamous by the administration of George W. Bush in the lead-up to the invasion of Iraq in 2003, reports are emerging from within Obama's Pentagon and intelligence community that internal assessments of the ongoing war against the Islamic State (ISIS) in Iraq and Syria are being "cooked" or "politicized" to fit

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