Yearly Archives: 2008

White House Ordered to Search for E-mails Related to Exposure of CIA Operative

January 9, 2008 – A federal magistrate has ordered the White House to reveal whether copies of missing e-mail messages written from 2003 to 2005 during an investigation into the disclosure of the name of a C.I.A. operative are stored … Continue reading

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Veterans Wait Longer For Benefits

January 7, 2008 Note: The following story is a verbatim transcript of an Investigators story that aired on Monday, Jan. 7, 2008, on KPRC Local 2 at 10 p.m. Local 2 Investigates looks into veterans waiting for needed help. Last … Continue reading

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Pink Slips Greet Many Returning Iraq War Veterans

January 9, 2008 Editor’s Note: Tens of thousands of members of the National Guard and reserves who are called up to serve in Iraq return home to find their civilian jobs gone and face unsympathetic employers. When reservist U.S. Army … Continue reading

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Backward Christian Soldiers

Evangelicals are taking over the US military, reports David Belden. And one man’s determined to stop them January 2008 – If you heard it said that America’s military was being taken over by agents of apocalyptic Christianity, you might think … Continue reading

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Pentagon, Big Pharma: Drug Troops to Numb Them to Horrors of War

The DoD is flirting with the idea of medicating soldiers to desensitize them to combat trauma — will an army of unfeeling monsters result?  January 10, 2008 – In June, the Department of Defense Task Force on Mental Health acknowledged … Continue reading

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Israel’s Netanyahu Claims President Bush Promised Unilateral Nuclear Bomb Attack Against Iran

We’ll nuke Iran – Bush promises Israel Thu, 01/10/2008 – 16:08 – Wire Services – US President George W. Bush promised Israel’s opposition leader Binyamin Netanyahu that the United States will join the Jewish state in a nuclear strike against … Continue reading

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Decorated Veteran Joins Democrats’ Field Against Congressman Murphy (R-PA)

January 8, 2008 – An Army Reserve Colonel and decorated Iraq war veteran joined a growing pack of Democrats vying for the chance to take on U.S. Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA) in November. Col. R. Wayne Dudding, who was awarded the … Continue reading

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Heart Ailments Linked to Terror Worries, UC Irvine Researchers Find

January 8, 2008 – Stress and fear about terrorism after 9/11 are giving Americans heart problems, even if they had no personal connection to the attacks, according to a UC Irvine study released Monday. UCI researchers linked psychological stress responses … Continue reading

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Veterans – Home From Hell

January 4, 2008 – Soldiers returning from war don’t need to exhibit any scars on their bodies to be injured. Many — as many as 65 percent — have witnessed and survived the trauma of explosions and detonations. Those jolts … Continue reading

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CIA Tapes Destroyed As Pressure Mounted

January 7, 2008 – The CIA destroyed videotapes showing its agents subjecting high-level al-Qaeda detainees to waterboarding after the agency’s inspector general issued a classified report in the spring of 2004 that concluded the interrogation methods used on the prisoners … Continue reading

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