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U.S. / NEWS Tue Dec 11, 2007 @ 8:19am neoform

BBC News -- A retired CIA agent has said a top al-Qaeda suspect was interrogated using a simulated drowning technique but that he believes it was justified. John Kiriakou told US broadcaster ABC that "water-boarding" was used when his CIA team questioned suspected.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sat Apr 7, 2007 @ 4:18am neoform

MSNBC -- When a third suspect was caught Friday in a bank robbery investigation that led to the fatal shooting of an FBI agent, he had a request for officers: "Just shoot me." Francisco Herrera-Genao, 22, was tired and cold, half-naked, and caked with mud and t.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Feb 16, 2007 @ 12:54am neoform

Yahoo News -- A former U.S. border agent who allowed hundreds of illegal immigrants to cross from Mexico in return for $120,000 in cash was sentenced on Thursday to five years in federal prison. Get the gifts you really wanted Michael Gilliland, 44, who worked on th.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Feb 12, 2007 @ 10:15am neoform

U.S. News -- A federal judge has ruled that a CIA agent identified only as "Doe," allegedly fired after he gathered prewar intelligence showing that Iraq was not developing weapons of mass destruction, can proceed with his lawsuit against the CIA. The judge has ordere.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Dec 21, 2006 @ 8:26am neoform

SF Gate -- A Sacramento man has been indicted on charges that he pretended to be an immigration agent and detained three people -- including a mother and her 10-year-old daughter -- overnight in hotel rooms before turning them over to real agents, authorities said t.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sun Dec 17, 2006 @ 10:40am neoform

BBC News -- The ePassport is one of the many measures pursued by the United States and governments internationally after the horror of 11 September... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Dec 15, 2006 @ 8:12am neoform

Houston Chronicle -- The son of Miami Police Chief John Timoney was sentenced Wednesday to 18 months in federal prison for trying to buy 400 pounds of marijuana from an undercover agent... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Dec 8, 2006 @ 2:25pm mrmdc

www.redandblack.com -- The ninja wants an apology — and he’ll go all the way to the White House to get it... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sat Oct 28, 2006 @ 3:01pm neoform

Washington Post -- A Haitian warlord who had been living in New York City as a real estate agent was ordered by a U.S. court on Tuesday to pay $19 million to three women who say they were raped and had their breasts slashed by his men... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Dec 10, 2007 @ 8:12am neoform

SF Gate -- Friends and relatives of a 25-year-old Internal Revenue Service agent missing for a week from her Mill Valley home refused to give up hope Sunday and organized volunteers to scour the steep Mount Tamalpais trails where the woman may have ventured after a.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Apr 20, 2007 @ 11:37pm neoform

News.com.au -- A FORMER editor at the entertainment magazine Us Weekly was sentenced on Friday to six years in prison for attempting to seduce an undercover FBI agent posing as a minor on the Internet. Timothy McDarrah, 43, who was convicted in December in US Distric.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Apr 6, 2007 @ 8:02pm neoform

CNN -- When a third suspect was caught Friday in the bank robbery that led to the fatal shooting of an FBI agent, he had a request for officers: "Just shoot me." Francisco Herrera-Genao, 22, was tired and cold, half-naked, and caked with mud and twigs after a.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sun Jan 7, 2007 @ 10:30pm neoform

Yahoo News -- The Central Intelligence Agency has shot down a book by former undercover agent Valerie Plame, whose outing led to an investigation of the highest levels of government, a magazine reported... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Dec 8, 2006 @ 11:15am mrmdc

Spiegel.de -- "Burning the hate-filled Koran should be viewed as a public service at the least." Hundreds of such e-mails were sent to police by a former CIA agent advising the NYPD on counterterrorism issues. Now a Muslim undercover agent is filing a lawsuit... Read More