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Sharyl Attkisson, the Emmy-award winning CBS News investigative reporter, says that her personal and work computers have been compromised and are under investigation. “I can confirm that an intrusion of my computers has been under some investigation on my end for some months but I’m not prepared to make an allegation against a specific entity today as I’ve been patient and methodical about this matter,” Attkisson told POLITICO on Tuesday. “I need [...] By KIRO 7 Investigative Reporter Chris Halsne TACOMA, Wash. — KIRO TV’s investigative unit has discovered Tacoma police used force to arrest and handcuff an innocent deaf woman after she called 911 for their help.
Instead of an apology, she ended up bloody and in jail for nearly three days without an interpreter before a prosecutor declined to press charges. http://www.kirotv.com/news/news/crime-law/police-use-taser-deaf-crime-victim/nP9mZ/ J. D. Heyes (NaturalNews) Most everyone who buys organic foods knows the benefits. While it can tend to be a little more expensive, it is at least pesticide free and much more wholesome. But did you know that an increasing amount of our “organic” food may be coming from China (which immediately throws into question the organic labeling)? That could include some of your favorites from Austin, Texas-based Whole Foods, which [...] FOIA documents obtained by Truthout reveal the US government is forcibly giving prisoners pills and injections of unknown medications. For years, current and former prisoners at US government military sites, as well as their attorneys, have complained that they were forcibly given pills and injected with unknown medications. Often, they alleged that this happened during or immediately prior to interrogation sessions while being jailed indefinitely without trial or charge. And now, thanks to [...]
By Phil Williams MONTEREY, Tenn. — “If somebody told me this happened to them, I absolutely would not believe this could happen in America.” That was the reaction of a New Jersey man who found out just how risky it can be to carry cash through Tennessee. For more than a year, NewsChannel 5 Investigates has been shining a light on a practice that some call “policing for profit.”
WASHINGTON, DC (WUSA) — Your paycheck information, or that of your neighbor’s, is likely on a new database that went public Tuesday morning. It opens the curtain on the personal payroll of over one million federal workers. By clicking here, you can access the DataUniverse.com 2011 payroll information too. The data, obtained through a Freedom of Information Act placed with the Office of Personnel Management by a WUSA9/Gannett sister publication, The Asbury Park Press, allows you to [...] A police officer from Dekalb County, Ga. with a history of violent conduct kicked a heavily pregnant woman in the stomach in a recent incident that the officer’s superiors described as within department policy. The incident occurred when officer Jerad Wheeler was called to the pregnant woman’s home to settle a dispute involving the woman’s brother and his partner. When her brother began arguing with the officer, nine month pregnant Raven Dozier [...] SEATTLE — Seattle-based Investigative Reporter Chris Halsne (KIROTV- CBS- COX MEDIA GROUP) just returned from El Salvador, where he interviewed a U.S. government subcontractor who worked extensively with the Secret Service advance team (snipers, K-9 and explosives sweeps) in San Salvador prior to President Obama’s trip there in March of 2011.
The eyewitness says he joined about a dozen Secret Service agents and a few U.S. military specialists at a strip club [...] The Case Against the NDAA: Lawyer for Chris Hedges, Noam Chomsky, Daniel Ellsberg, and Others
Perhaps the most important court case of our lifetime right now: … the most chilling exchange on Thursday took place between government lawyers and Judge Forrest. The judge, who will probably rule in May, repeatedly asked for assurance that the plaintiffs would not be subject to detention under the NDAA. It was an assurance the two government lawyers refused to [...] Forum Post: Goldman Sachs threatens OWS credit union bank. I haven’t heard about the Credit Union being under investigation but seems like GS is panic mode: Goldman Sachs has threatened to to transfer credit union funds, worth about 1 billion dollars, if credit union does not shut down OWS bank account. I think we need to devise another banking system for OWS. A system that cannot be threatened by the likes of [...] Investigative reporter Susan Bradford has filed a small-claims court lawsuit in Virginia against The Huffington Post and The New York Times, alleging that the publishers plagiarized her work on the Jack Abramoff scandal in 2008. The civil suit was filed September 1 in Fairfax County, Va., a close-in suburban county near Washington, D.C. Bradford told The Daily Caller that she entered into a verbal agreement with Nico Pitney, Politics Editor of The [...] Uploaded by democracynow on Oct 25, 2011 www.democracynow.org – Democracy Now! talks to investigative reporter Greg Palast about a controversy in the banking community around the Occupy Wall Street movement. Palast investigates the story behind Goldman Sachs’ recent decision to pull out of a fundraiser for the Lower East Side People’s Federal Credit Union in New York City after it learned the event was honoring the protesters at Occupy Wall Street. The [...] 26th June 2011 – American in Tripoli: First Hand Account – Investigative reporter Wayne Madsen Investigative reporter Wayne Madsen, who spent some time in Libya, shares his views on what’s really going on in the country and why the mainstream media deliberately misinforms the public about real goals of NATO.
He has said “Gaddafi (allegedly) has a lot of support in Tripoli.” http://www.9news.com/news/local/article/224593/346/Firsthand-account-of-Occupy-Denver-protests
KUSA – They say to not judge a man until you’ve walked two moons in his shoes. In this case, 9NEWS investigative reporter Jeremy Jojola took to the streets of Denver to watch a peaceful protest disbanded by local authorities. VIEW SLIDESHOW As you’re reading this, I’ll likely be in bed after covering the Occupy Denver movement downtown for 10 hours. Hopefully my journalism was fair, objective [...] Yesterday, CBS News investigative reporter Sharyl Attkisson told radio show host Laura Ingraham that the White House yelled and swore at her over her reporting on the Fast and Furious gunrunning scandal tied to the deaths of two U.S. law enforcement agents. Attkisson also revealed that she’d also been yelled at by the Justice Department. Today, I called CBS News in an attempt to interview Attkisson. I was [...] Jill Abramson, a former investigative reporter and Washington bureau chief for The New York Times, will become the paper’s executive editor, succeeding Bill Keller, who is stepping down to become a full-time writer for the paper. As managing editor since 2003, Ms. Abramson has been one of Mr. Keller’s two top deputies overseeing the entire newsroom. Her appointment was announced on Thursday by Arthur Sulzberger Jr., [...] The “transparency” in the Obama administration means sometimes a question can’t even get asked. The discovery came today at the daily White House news briefing with press secretary Jay Carney, who responded to a request to be allowed to ask about the president’s positions: “I’m not going to take your questions.” Ironically, Les Kinsolving, WND’s correspondent at the White House and the No. 2 reporter on the White House beat, had wanted [...] Is A 90 Day “Mortgage Meltdown” Foreclosure Moratorium Imminent As The RoboSigning Scandal Goes Mainstream? Submitted by Tyler Durden on 10/04/2010 19:59 -0500 “The Massive Mortgage Mess as we affectionately call it seems to be getting new names with each passing day – the latest one is, quite appropriately, RoboSigning Scandal (funny how after the stock market, “robotic” technology will soon becoming equated with the biggest mortgage scam in history). During today’s [...] |
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