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Lynne Stewart at a news conference in New York City in 2002.
Lynne Stewart at a news conference in New York City in 2002.
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It's been a tactic used in the U.S. for years. Here Ted Gunderson is interviewed by Anthony Hilder in the mid-1990s:
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Were Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev acting alone? What was the nature of their previous contacts with the FBI and other federal agencies? Why did the FBI at first deny that they had been in contact with the Tsarnaev brothers previously? Why was the investigation of a mysterious Saudi national with familial links to al-Qaeda suddenly dropped shortly after the Saudi ambassador held an unscheduled meeting with Barack Obama?
Why did Michelle Obama subsequently visit that mysterious Saudi national in the hospital? If you are looking for answers to these questions, I am afraid that I don't have them at this point. But what alarms me is that the mainstream media seems to be afraid to ask any of the hard questions that they should be asking. They just seem to swallow whatever the authorities tell them hook, line and sinker without following up on any of the things in this case that simply do not seem to make sense.
So what kinds of questions should they be asking? The following are 17 unanswered questions about the Boston Marathon bombing that the media appears to be afraid to ask...
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Lawmakers in the House voted 288-to-127 Thursday afternoon to accept the bill. Next it will move to the Senate and could then end up on the desk of US President Barack Obama for him to potentially sign the bill into law. Earlier this week, though, senior White House advisers said they would recommend the president veto the bill.
Should CISPA earn the president's autograph, private businesses will be encouraged to voluntarily share cyberthreat information with the US government. The authors of the bill say this is an effort to better combat the reportedly increasing attempts to harm America's critical computer networks and pilfer the systems of private companies for intellectual property and other sensitive trade secrets.
One of the bill's creators, Rep. Dutch Ruppersberger (D-Maryland), said during a round of debate on Wednesday that $400 billion worth of American trade secrets are being stolen by US companies every year. Passing CISPA, he said, would be a common sense solution to a threat that's growing at an alarming rate.
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The letters, which were intercepted by sorting facilities before they reached their intended targets, were signed: "I am KC and I approve this message."
"We have an investigation that is going on that has got local and federal authorities working together," said Lee County Sheriff Jim Johnson.
A few hours before federal officials announced the arrest, TheBlaze was contacted by bloggers at Lady Liberty 1885 who had noticed some key similarities between a "Kevin Curtis" from Tupelo, Miss. and the person suspected of sending the ricin letters.
Among several other similarities, Kevin Curtis used the phrase "This is KC and I approve this message" in a previous Facebook post - the same exact phrase included in the ricin-laced letters.
Additionally, the person who sent the ricin letters used this particular quote from Dr. John Raymond Baker to make his point: "To see a wrong and not expose it, is to become a silent partner to its continuance." Kevin Curtis uses the same quote in the "About" section of his Facebook page.
David Keene told Secrets that the president and his team misplayed their hand because they don't have a sense of the public's attitude toward gun control. "They just can't gauge the public reaction to what they do because they don't have any sense that the public has feelings different than they do," said Keene.
"He thought and his folks thought that Newtown changed everything. Newtown was a tragedy but that doesn't change people's basic values and feelings," added the NRA president. "What he learned is that he bit off a lot more than he can chew and that you can't just talk your way to a victory. You have to have something that makes some sense and he what he was proposing just didn't make much sense."
South Korean soldiers patrol on the island of Yeonpyeong near the waters of the Yellow Sea on April 14, 2013.
On Thursday, North Korea's National Defense Commission said sanctions imposed by the UN Security Council against Pyongyang must be lifted, Washington and Seoul must stop provocations, fully apologize for their aggressions, and stop ongoing nuclear war exercises.
"Fabrications of truth like blaming the North [Korea] for the sinking of a South Korean warship in 2010 and recent Internet hacking of financial institutions and media has to be discontinued," the Commission's policy department said in a statement.
CNN reports that some 200 US troops are staging along Syria's border, this as reports reveal huge amounts of US-provided flour smuggled into Syria have formed the foundation of Al Qaeda's public relations strategy. Together with huge amounts of US-provided weapons, the aid is fueling Al Qaeda's continued operations and atrocities inside Syria. The addition of US troops along Syria's border appears to a response to recent and significant gains made by the Syrian government in stamping out terrorist operations nationwide.
Syria's "rebels" are same terrorists US fought for last 10 years
As reported in October 2012, the networks used to flood Iraq with weapons and Al Qaeda militants during the US occupation, had been positively identified by the extensive academic efforts of the US Army's own West Point Combating Terrorism Center (CTC). Two reports were published between 2007 and 2008 revealing a global network of Al Qaeda affiliated terror organizations, and how they mobilized to send a large influx of foreign fighters into Iraq.
At least 25 are reported dead after a chemical weapons attack targeting Syrian soldiers was carried out by NATO-backed terrorists in the northern city of Aleppo.
Aleppo is located near the Syrian-Turkish border. Had Libya's looted stockpiles of chemical weapons been shipped to Syria, they would have passed through Turkey along with weapons sent from Libya by the US and thousands of Libyan terrorists who are admittedly operating inside Syria, and would most likely be used to target cities like Aleppo.
Worse yet, any chemical weapons imported into the country would implicate NATO either directly or through gross negligence, as the weapons would have passed through NATO-member Turkey, past US CIA agents admittedly operating along the border and alongside Western-backed terrorists inside Syria.
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The invasion of Beit Daras following the last battle in May 1948.
The invasion of Beit Daras following the last battle in May 1948.
Even narratives offered by historians such as Benny Morris - an honest researcher who remained committed to Zionism despite the ghastly history he had himself uncovered - presented a harrowing version of the events that unfolded on that day: "Whole families were riddled with bullets... men, women, and children were mowed down as they emerged from houses; individuals were taken aside and shot. Haganah intelligence reported 'there were piles of dead. Some of the prisoners moved to places of incarceration, including women and children, were murdered viciously by their captors..."
It was the Irgun Zionist militias of Menachem Begin and the Stern Gang (Lehi) lead by Yitzhak Shamir that took credit for the infamy of that day; and both were rewarded generously for their 'heroism'. The once wanted criminals rose to prominence to become Israeli Prime Ministers in later years.
