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When the Conservative Examiner presented proof in a 7-part series that the Obama government is engaging in covert activities to rob citizens of their liberties, naysayers dismissed the information as 'inconclusive,' despite the reliability of the unnamed sources for that information. However, ABC News interviewed a whistleblower who exposes a massive government intrusion into the privacy of all citizens by reading their emails and Instant Messages, listening to their phone calls, monitoring their movements on the Internet, and tracking the 'Patriot movement' as a 'violent threat' to national security, although no one in the Patriot movement has engaged in such...

Bucharest and Brussels, 16 Nov. (AKI) - Romania, one two countries accused by Europe's top human rights watchdog of hosting secret CIA jails used to interrogate Islamist terrorism suspects, says it has written to the European Union executive denying the charges. The letter to the European Commission is a response to a request from EU justice and security commissioner Franco Frattini asking Romania and Poland - the other country implicated by the Council of Europe - for an explanation. A Romanian spokeswoman in Brussels, Doris Mircea, said that a committee of inquiry set up by the government concluded that the...

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A group of Army Reserve soldiers rarely tapped for duty could soon be heading to Iraq, Pentagon officials said Wednesday. The troops, part of the Individual Ready Reserve (IRR), could be called to fill holes in units deploying to Iraq as part of the upcoming rotation of troops later this year.

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Making a case for UFOs By: John Andrews April 17, 2003 Lecturer says evidence shows we're not alone Audience members listen as lecturer Robert Hastings discusses "UFOs: The Hidden History" Tuesday evening at South Dakota State University. Area UFO buffs and those with just mild curiosity got an opportunity Tuesday to judge for themselves the legitimacy of unidentified flying objects. Robert Hastings, an independent researcher and lecturer, presented "UFOs: The Hidden History" to a packed Volstorff Ballroom at South Dakota State University. "I am not a missionary," Hastings told the audience. "I am not seeking to convert skeptics into so-called...