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    Apr 23, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  1. George W. Bush Presidential Library opens this week, chads and all

    President Obama and all four living ex-presidents will attend the official dedication of the <a href="http://www.georgewbushlibrary.smu.edu/">George W. Bush Presidential Library</a> on Thursday on the campus of Southern Methodist University in Dallas.&nbsp;
    President Obama and all four living ex-presidents will attend the official dedication of the George W. Bush Presidential Library on Thursday on the campus of Southern Methodist University in Dallas.  According to the website, the library's mission...

    Tags: Politics, Barack Obama, Condoleezza Rice, September 11, 2001 Attacks, The Washington Post

    2. Mar 25, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  2. FBI puts UFOs on Ten Most Wanted list. Not so much.

    A screaming comes across the sky. Is it Superman? <a href="http://www.thomaspynchon.com/mason-dixon/extra/compare.html" target="_blank">Thomas Pynchon</a>? Or just a meteor en route to <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=50141258n" target="_blank">Chelyabinsk, </a>Russia, that somehow made a wrong turn and got lost over New Jersey?
    A screaming comes across the sky. Is it Superman? Thomas Pynchon? Or just a meteor en route to Chelyabinsk, Russia, that somehow made a wrong turn and got lost over New Jersey? Well, if you really want to know, here’s a tip: Don’t ask the...

    Tags: UFO Sightings, Crime, Law and Justice, Fiction, FBI, Entertainment Events

    3. Mar 6, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  3. Aaron Swartz is gone, but his story refuses to go away. Why?

    By now, Web users should know about Aaron Swartz, because it's getting hard not to hear about him.
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    By now, Web users should know about Aaron Swartz, because it's getting hard not to hear about him. The 26-year-old computer prodigy helped develop RSS and Reddit; he was also a folk hero to the open Web movement, which argues for greater information...

    Tags: Aaron Swartz, U.S. Senate, Prisons, U.S. Department of Justice, Eric Holder

    4. Feb 8, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  4. In FBI records, clues about a photographer's work as an informant

    Ernest Withers watched the trajectory of the civil rights movement from behind his camera lens.
    Ernest Withers watched the trajectory of the civil rights movement from behind his camera lens. He was in Mississippi in 1955 when an all-white jury acquitted two white men accused of brutally murdering Emmett Till, a visiting black Chicago teenager,...

    Tags: Civil Rights, Photography, Martin Luther King Jr., U.S. Department of Justice, Labor Legislation

    5. Jan 4, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  5. Justifying assassination

    A federal judge in New York ruled this week that the Obama administration may withhold from the public a document providing the legal rationale for the targeted killing in Yemen of Anwar Awlaki, an Al Qaeda operative who was also a U.S. citizen. But even as she did so, U.S. District Judge Colleen McMahon eloquently expressed her concerns about the existence of a secretive government program that not only assassinates those deemed to be enemies of the United States, but does so without judicial oversight.
    A federal judge in New York ruled this week that the Obama administration may withhold from the public a document providing the legal rationale for the targeted killing in Yemen of Anwar Awlaki, an Al Qaeda operative who was also a U.S. citizen. But...

    Tags: Civil Rights, Politics, Armed Conflicts, U.S. Department of Justice, Pakistan

    6. Jan 18, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  6. Aaron Swartz suicide has U.S. lawmakers scrutinizing prosecutors

    Congressional criticism is mounting against U.S. prosecutors for pursuing prison time for a popular hacker in a case that's morphed into a posthumous cause celebre.
    Congressional criticism is mounting against U.S. prosecutors for pursuing prison time for a popular hacker in a case that's morphed into a posthumous cause celebre. Aaron Swartz, 26, a cofounder of Reddit and an open-Internet advocate, committed suicide...

    Tags: Laws, Theft, Eric Holder, Computer Crime, U.S. Congress

    7. Dec 22, 2009 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  7. Rep. Schiff to seek inquiry into Station fire response

    A local House member says he will ask Congress to launch an inquiry next month into the U.S. Forest Service's response to the Station fire, including a decision to withhold water-dropping aircraft during the critical second day of the blaze.
    Los Angeles Times
    A local House member says he will ask Congress to launch an inquiry next month into the U.S. Forest Service's response to the Station fire, including a decision to withhold water-dropping aircraft during the critical second day of the blaze. Rep. Adam B....

    Tags: Michael Antonovich , U.S. House Committee on Appropriations, Fires, Adam B. Schiff, Dianne Feinstein

    8. Jul 5, 2010 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  8. Aerial expert's report on L.A. County's biggest wildfire flies in the face of official review

    Just after first light, a tactical observation plane took off from its old military base in Hemet for an urgent mission above the cathedral peaks of the Angeles National Forest.
    Los Angeles Times
    Just after first light, a tactical observation plane took off from its old military base in Hemet for an urgent mission above the cathedral peaks of the Angeles National Forest. The two-man crew had been deployed to direct an air assault on the few acres...

    Tags: Air and Space Accidents, Adam Schiff, Environmental Issues, Forests, Conservation

    9. Aug 4, 2010 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  9. Federal inspector general launches probe of Station fire

    A federal inspector general has launched an investigation and the Obama administration has invited Congress to order a broad inquiry into last summer's disastrous Station fire after learning that dispatch recordings had been withheld from a U.S. Forest Service review team.
    Los Angeles Times
    A federal inspector general has launched an investigation and the Obama administration has invited Congress to order a broad inquiry into last summer's disastrous Station fire after learning that dispatch recordings had been withheld from a U.S. Forest...

    Tags: Adam Schiff, Radio, Politics, Agriculture, General Contracting

    10. Sep 9, 2010 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  10. GAO will probe Forest Service's handling of Station fire

    Acting on a request by California lawmakers, the investigative arm of Congress has agreed to conduct a broad inquiry into the U.S. Forest Service's handling of last year's devastating Station fire, officials said Wednesday.
    Los Angeles Times
    Acting on a request by California lawmakers, the investigative arm of Congress has agreed to conduct a broad inquiry into the U.S. Forest Service's handling of last year's devastating Station fire, officials said Wednesday. The state's two U.S....

    Tags: Adam Schiff, Crime, Law and Justice, Justice System

    11. May 20, 2013 |Story| Hampton Roads Daily Press

  11. Editorial: Keep that public access door open

    Recently, the office of Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli has taken the position that it does not have to comply with the requirements of Virginia's Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), a law intended to provide broad public access to government...

    Tags: Civil Rights, Laws, Politics, Crime, Law and Justice, Bob McDonnell

    12. May 20, 2013 |Story| McClatchy-Tribune

  12. Bluffton settles lawsuit with police officer who claimed unfair suspension, demotion

    The Island Packet Online
    A Bluffton police officer who claimed he was unfairly suspended, demoted and forced to take a pay cut in retaliation for filing complaints against the town's former police chief will receive back pay and be reinstated to his former rank, according to a...

    Tags: Litigation, Trials

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