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U.S. gets access to worldwide banking data By JEANNINE AVERSA and KATHERINE SHRADER, Associated Press Writers 1 hour, 52 minutes ago The U.S. government gained sweeping access to international banking records as part of a secret program to choke off financial support for terrorism, officials said Thursday. Treasury Department officials said they used broad subpoenas to collect the financial records from an international system known as Swift. Stuart Levey, Treasury's undersecretary for terrorism and financial intelligence, called the subpoenas "a legal and proper use of our authorities." "Since immediately following 9-11, the American government has taken every legal measure to...

GOP senator criticizes White House torture stance Bill would ban inhumane treatment of detainees Sunday, November 6, 2005; Posted: 2:17 p.m. EST (19:17 GMT) WASHINGTON (AP) -- A leading Republican senator said Sunday that the Bush administration is making "a terrible mistake" in opposing a congressional ban on torture and other inhuman treatment of prisoners in U.S. custody. Sen. Chuck Hagel, considered a potential presidential candidate in 2008, said many Republican senators support the ban proposed by Sen. John McCain, R-Arizona, a prisoner of war during the Vietnam War. The ban was approved by a 90-9 vote last month in...

With the publication of Jane Fonda’s autobiography, the public in general and veterans in particular have once again been insulted by her contentless “apology” for a single episode in her multi-faceted junket to Hanoi in July 1972. Fonda’s charade on “60 Minutes” the other night was simply a robotic reprise of what she has been repeating as a mantra for years in words carefully crafted by her spin doctors. In our 2002“Aid and Comfort”: Jane Fonda in North Vietnam, Erika Holzer and I wrote the following: "[After the Vietnam War ended], Fonda went on with her life – garnering more...

Michael Moore, director of “Fahrenheit 9/11,” delivered to Korean viewers a message in which he wished them to carry on a campaign against the dispatch of additional troops to Iraq. Michael Moore issued words of hope and pleading in his first official press conference since the release of the film at the Essex House Hotel in New York with about 200 local and foreign reporters present. According to Cinema People, the company in charge of the PR for the movie in Korea, Michael Moore was asked whether he wished to convey any messages through "Fahrenheit 9/11" to the Korean...

Senator Lindsey Graham is one of the hot & bothered patriot U.S. senators who is urging Attorney General Ashcroft to prosecute returning American 'human shields' for war crimes or sedition in Iraq behind enemy lines. He is reported to have extensively examined the legal possibilities and is convinced there is a case for the 'People of the United States vs. Traitors'.So that we have an open, running log of these traitorous, idiotic scum either in Baghdad or trying to get out of Baghdad [to save their own skins and desert 'the Iraqi people that need protection'], I hereby provide a...

Thursday, July 11, 2002 5:18AM EDTA peaceful trip Sam Brooks, right, hugs Leigh Arnold as he and other members of Pastors for Peace leave for Cuba in buses and trucks loaded with donated medicines and supplies. The group believes the U.S. trade embargo against the country is immoral. Staff Photo By Shawn Rocco By YONAT SHIMRON, Staff Writer Jim Stockwell wanted to donate his 1990 blue Chevy truck to a good cause. First, he went to his son's school. Then he went to his church. When neither place took him up on his offer, he decided to do something...