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Yesterday during testimony on Capitol Hill, we heard Former ATF Special Agent in Charge William Newell admit he was in contact with White House National Security staffer Kevin O'Reilly about Operation Fast and Furious as early as September 2010. Newell also admitted that the DHS, IRS, DEA, ATF, ICE and the Obama Justice Department were all heavily involved and were full partners in coming up with the concept and execution of Operation Fast and Furious. Attorney General Eric Holder and President Obama still deny authorizing the lethal program, despite President Obama specifically asking Holder to conduct a complete review

The idea that life on Earth might have originated elsewhere, on Mars, for example, has gained currency in recent times as we’ve learned more about the transfer of materials between planets. Mars cooled before the Earth and may well have become habitable at a time when our planet was not. There seems nothing particularly outrageous in the idea that dormant bacteria inside chunks of the Martian surface, blasted into space by comet or asteroid impacts, might have crossed the interplanetary gulf and given rise to life here. But what of an interstellar origin for life on Earth? The odds on...

I am a long time telephone company COT (central office tech). I have some insight into our government's Homeland Security call "tapping" and I am getting more and more frustrated at people throughout the political spectrum who have stong opinions about it, yet they are uninformed. The equipment used to "tap" phones resides in telephone central offices and within the last few years I have seen equipment labelled CALEA. I knew from the location of the equipment that it is associated with the SS7 network and was told that it was Homeland's spy gear. This information was already enough for...

Tracing your tribe's wanderings through DNA January 06 2003 at 06:20AM Palo Alto, California - Scientists say they can tell where a person comes from just by looking at the genes. Researchers found that tiny differences in DNA can provide enough information to identify the geographic ancestry of individual people. This could be used to shed light on the course of ancient human migrations across the globe. Scientists already know that every individual human being has DNA 99,9 per cent identical to everyone else despite differences in skin colour, body or skull shape. But the study by United States scientists...

<p>President Bush wants a review of a proposed national tracking system to trace bullets.</p> <p>WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The White House has asked firearms officials to conduct a review of a proposed national tracking system to trace bullets, a senior administration official told CNN Wednesday -- one day after President Bush's spokesman strongly suggested the administration was opposed to such a system.</p>