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FBI antiterrorism agents spied on a US peace group simply because it opposed the Iraq war, part of an ''unprecedented campaign" to spy on innocent citizens, the American Civil Liberties Union said yesterday. FBI documents acquired under the Freedom of Information Act and provided to reporters show that the FBI conducted surveillance of the Pittsburgh-based Thomas Merton Center for Peace & Justice during antiwar demonstrations and leaflet distributions in 2002 and 2003.
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2006/03/15/documents_fbi_spied_on_pa_pacifists/Countdown w/ Keith Olbermann broadcasts LIVE at 8 pm et, and the count is never complete without you. Join us.
Dana Milbank: Democratic senators, filing in for their weekly caucus lunch yesterday, looked as if they'd seen a ghost. "I haven't read it," demurred Barack Obama (Ill.). "I just don't have enough information," protested Ben Nelson (Neb.). "I really can't right now," John Kerry (Mass.) said as he hurried past a knot of reporters -- an excuse that fell apart when Kerry was forced into an awkward wait as Capitol Police stopped an aide at the magnetometer. In a sense, they were. The cause of so much evasion was S. Res. 398, the resolution proposed Monday by Sen. Russell Feingold (D-Wis.) calling for the censure of President Bush for his warrantless wiretapping program. At a time when Democrats had Bush on the ropes over Iraq, the budget and port security, Feingold single-handedly turned the debate back to an issue where Bush has the advantage -- and drove another wedge through his party.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/14/AR2006031401519.htmlMore on the Barry Bonds book.
Keith last night on "The Colbert Report" and today on Al Franken...
A Pennsylvania motorist is going to federal court to protect a very specific part of what he claims are his free speech rights: the right to show his middle finger. Thomas Burns of New Castle, Pa., was cited for disorderly conduct last April after he became frustrated with a PennDOT traffic delay and he flipped his middle finger at a construction worker. The worker reported the gesture to a police officer in Beaver County, Pa., who cited Burns.
http://www.nbc10.com/news/7992965/detail.htmlThat's some of what we're planning for tonight's show.
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FORT PIERCE, Fla. -- Paul Kuschel would have been better off naked - like many of the folks at Sunnier Palms Nudist Park. Instead, he was wearing a pair of nylon shorts Sunday when a generator he was working on backfired and sprayed him with starter fluid, setting him ablaze. The fire seared his shorts to his backside. "It's a good thing I wasn't wearing a shirt," he said. He was taken to a hospital with non life-threatening wounds and was treated and released. "I would have been better off wearing nothing on at all," Kuschel told Scripps Treasure Coast Newspapers.
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/B/BETTER_OFF_NAKED?SITE=NWCN&TEMPLATE=STRANGEHEADS.html&SECTION=HOMEWhen in Rome...
-- Carey Fox
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Charges were to be announced Wednesday against 27 people in the United States, Canada, Australia and Great Britain in connection with an Internet chat room used to trade child porn and view real-time child molestations, federal law enforcement sources told NBC News.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11839832/New York state filed a $250 million fraud suit Wednesday against H&R Block Inc., the nation's largest tax preparing service, charging the company fraudulently steered customers into a losing retirement account plan.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11839807/A Dubai-owned company said Wednesday that it plans to sell all its U.S. port operations within four to six months to an unrelated American buyer and laid out new details about how it will pursue the sale under pressure from Congress.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11839552/The U.S. military is dispatching an Army battalion of about 700 soldiers to Iraq from their base in Kuwait to provide extra security during the holiday of Ashura, three military officers said Wednesday.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11839126/Saddam Hussein testified Wednesday for the first time at his trial, calling on Iraqis to stop a bloody wave of sectarian violence and instead fight American troops, prompting the chief judge to close the courtroom, saying he was making political speeches.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11805100/Eleven people - most women and children - were killed when a house was bombed during a U.S. raid north of Baghdad early Wednesday, police and relatives said.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11819857/Prosecutors seeking the death penalty against confessed terrorist Zacarias Moussaoui told a federal judge that it would be a waste of time to continue the trial after key government witnesses were barred from testifying.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11840090/After Israel's grab of top Palestinian prisoners from a West Bank jail, angry Palestinians staged protest strikes Wednesday and their embarrassed president rushed back from Europe. Israel said it was determined to put the detainees on trial for the 2001 assassination of a Cabinet minister.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11835690/Ground-level ozone, the same pollutant that makes smog, is responsible for a surprisingly large part of the spring and summer warming that's been detected in the Arctic, NASA researchers said in a new study.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11838578/Strange behavior by insomniacs taking prescription drugs, ranging from binge eating to having sex while asleep, have raised safety questions about anti-insomnia medications such as Sanofi-Aventis' Ambien.
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