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- Zeroing in on BAE
  Posted by SoxFirst
  The US Department of Justice is putting the heat on BAE Systems for alleged corruption and bribery
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- Crooks go free
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  The US Justice Department is easing up on prosecuting corporate crooks
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- Rigged Trials at Guantanamo
  Posted by okami from Truth Out
  The litany of complaints about the legal treatment of prisoners at Guantánamo Bay is long, disturbing and by now familiar. Nonetheless, a new wave of shock and criticism greeted the Pentagon's announcement on February 11 that it was charging six Guantánamo detainees, including alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, with war crimes - and seeking the death penalty for all of them.
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- Drunks at drive-thru find breathalyzer on menu
  Posted by Shemuses from CBC
  Police in Surrey, B.C., have begun to stake out fast food drive-thru windows in hopes of catching impaired drivers with the late-night munchies. Project WULF — an acronym for Would U Like Fries — was launched after police heard numerous comments from restaurant staff about the number of impaired drivers that frequent fast food drive-thrus.
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- Gag orders in a Facebook age
  Posted by Shemuses from Toronto Star
  For 24 hours, newspapers, TV and radio stations were legally forbidden to release Stefanie Rengel's name, but on the Internet tributes to the slain teen – and the names of her accused killers – sprang up almost immediately, including on the social networking site Facebook.
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- Vultures (presidential and otherwise) descend on Pakistan’s chaos
  Posted by VincebusEruptum from Scholarsandrogues
  Never one to pass up an opportunity to make himself look good using others’ deaths as the backdrop, Rudy Giuliani was quick to post a statement that the Terrorists ™ must be stopped from continuing their War On Us (caps are his, not mine). And he wasn’t the last...
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- West Virginia Torture Case a Legal Circus
  Posted by Shemuses
  What started out as one of the most horrendous racial rape/torture cases in recent memory, has now devolved into a legal circus, as the prosecutor in charge of the Megan Williams case, and the West Virginia State Attorney General, are engaged in a very public power struggle not only over the issue of whether hate crime charges should be leveled, but which office will actually try the case if it ever goes to trial.
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daveuser87843 comments on:
Gag orders in a Facebook age

hmm

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11:14 pm 1/10/08
Jeff comments on:
Cheney gets violent reception in Sydney

Obama’s comments on Australia’s prime minister were hilarious. I doubt Cheney will absorb much feedback. He’s not that kind of guy.

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7:29 pm 2/22/07

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SoxFirst
Member since Jul 2008
Leon Gettler is a blogger and senior business journalist at The Age, specializing on management issues. His latest book, Organisations Behaving Badly focuses on the forces that lead smart executives into making dumb decisions.
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