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Full title: Judicial Watch Obtains ‘4 to 5 inch Stack’ of ‘Overlooked’ CIA Records Detailing Meetings with bin Laden Filmmakers Obama Deputy National Security Advisor for Strategic Communications: Obama White House ‘trying to have visibility into the UBL (Usama bin Laden) projects.’ (Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch announced today that it has obtained records from the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and Department of Defense (DOD) regarding meetings and communications between government agencies and Kathryn Bigelow, the Academy Award-winning director of The Hurt Locker, and screenwriter Mark Boal in preparation for their film Zero Dark Thirty, which details the capture...

DONNA — Tony Nieto said he’s careful on his family’s land, knowing the previous owner had a nasty run-in with a group of undocumented immigrants. As he recently stepped out of his white Mazda pickup, the 34-year-old debt collector explained he always carries his nickel-plated .38 special when he visits his family’s property, located about a mile north of the Rio Grande in Donna. Nieto says you can’t be too careful while treading along the border — even on a sun-filled Tuesday morning. “It’s not very powerful, but it’s very accurate,” he said of the .38 special. Unlike many people...

FALFURRIAS — Police recently responded to a call about a stolen rooster named Harry, but this rural enclave in the South Texas brush country is more like Miami than Mayberry. Brooks County has only 7,600 residents, but the area pulses with illicit traffic attempting to sneak people and drugs past the nearby Border Patrol checkpoint 70 miles north of the Rio Grande on U.S. 281. It poses challenges and extra work for local law enforcement, some of it gruesome. But it also creates a gold mine. By policy, the Border Patrol can't chase vehicles, so a cooperative arrangement has evolved....

New groups plans to concentrate on Texas immigration. Thursday, The former leader of the Texas branch of the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps said Wednesday that he and other members split from the national watchdog group last month to form their own private patrol organization opposing illegal immigration: the Texas Border Volunteers. Mike Vickers, a Falfurrias veterinarian and rancher, had been state director of the civil defense corps since March. He said the new group, which he heads as chairman, will focus its efforts in Texas and form a political action committee to influence statewide elections and public policy. The committee...

As a citizen and rancher who has experienced the horrors of illegal immigration firsthand, I would like to respond to the Feb. 27 editorial "Aid from the state blitzes Minutemen." There is no question in my mind that this editorial, denouncing the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps, or MCDC, is a display of the total ignorance of the reality of the illegal immigration crisis on our nation's southern border. I live in Brooks County, 70 miles from the border and not four miles from a U.S. Border Patrol checkpoint that is intended to catch illegal aliens. My ranch and those of...