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Julian Assange Extradition To Sweden Ordered

6:56 am EST February 24th, 2011 | Crime | Comments Off

British judge Howard Riddle has ordered that Julian Assange be extradited to Sweden to face charges of rape and sexual assault. Assange is expected to appeal.

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Albert Haynesworth Charged With Assault, Snyder’s Front Office Clueless

11:06 am EST February 4th, 2011 | Crime, Sports | 3 Comments

Another dividend from the mind of The Danny.

Redskins defensive lineman Albert Haynesworth has been charged with simple assault for a road rage incident with another motorist on the Fairfax County Parkway in Reston, Fairfax police said.

Haynesworth, 29, has not been arrested but is planning to turn himself in next week, Officer Shelley Broderick said.

A Redskins executive said the team was unaware of the incident or the charge. “This is the first I’m hearing about this,” Tony Wyllie, Redskins senior vice president, said in a phone interview with Redskins beat reporter Jason Reid. “At this time, we need to gather information.”

No doubt this woman got between Haynesworth and somwhere to flop and lay down.

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VIDEO: Houston Police Beat Teen Burglar Chad Holley

6:14 am EST February 4th, 2011 | Crime | 16 Comments

This is ridiculous. The suspect is subdued – he was clipped by a police car, and yet the cops just wail on him.

Even worse, the police department tried to keep the video under wraps.

Chad Holley, 16, accused eight officers of beating him while he was in custody on a burglary charge, on which he was later convicted. Holley claimed he was hit by a police car then beaten and kicked by police officers near a self-storage facility on Cook Road on March 24. Holley was 15 at the time.

Surveillance cameras caught the incident on tape. The tape was not released to the public by federal injunction.

However, Quanell X, the leader of the New Black Panther Party in Houston, decided to release it after he obtained a copy as part of a defamation lawsuit filed against him by one of the officers.

The video showed one officer delivering at least seven kicks to Holley while another officer punched Holley five times, KPRC Local 2 reported.
Holley is not seen on tape struggling with the officers, the station reported.

Seven police officers were terminated in connection with the incident. Four officers were also charged in connection with the incident

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Government Report: Bush, Rove Broke The Law

1:02 am EST January 25th, 2011 | Crime, Republicans | 35 Comments

BushShocking.

The Bush White House, particularly before the 2006 midterm elections, routinely violated a federal law that prohibits use of federal tax dollars to pay for political activities by creating a “political boiler room” that coordinated Republican campaign activities nationwide, a report issued Monday by an independent federal agency concludes.

The report by the Office of Special Counsel finds that the Bush administration’s Office of Political Affairs — overseen by Karl Rove —served almost as an extension of the Republican National Committee, developing a “target list” of Congressional races, organizing dozens of briefings for political appointees to press them to work for party candidates, and sending cabinet officials out to help these campaigns.

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The investigators also found evidence that the Bush White House improperly classified travel by senior officials as official government business, “when it was, in fact, political,” and the costs associated with this travel were never reimbursed.

Worst President Ever strikes again.

(You can see the report for yourself here)

This chapter addresses how OPA employees violated the Hatch Act by giving political briefings to agency political appointees during the Bush II administration. The briefings typically were given by the OPA Director or Deputy Director, who testified that the briefings were intended to boost morale among political appointees and provide an overview of the “political landscape.” However, witness testimony, e-mail messages, and PowerPoint slides used at some of the briefings indicate that the electoral success of the Republican Party, and
possible strategies for achieving it, were often on the agenda. As such, these briefings constituted political activity. Because most of the briefings took place during normal business hours and in government buildings, many of the briefings implicated the Hatch Act’s prohibition against engaging in political activity while on duty or in a federal workplace.

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FBI: Bomb At Martin Luther King Jr. Day March Was Domestic Terror

10:23 pm EST January 18th, 2011 | Crime | 100 Comments

FYI:

The abandoned backpack found Monday along the route of Spokane’s annual Martin Luther King Jr. march contained a bomb capable of inflicting “multiple casualties,” the FBI has confirmed.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation’s terrorism task force is offering a $20,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of those responsible for planting the bomb. The FBI on Tuesday issued a bulletin asking for the public’s assistance.

Frank Harrill, special agent in the charge of the Spokane FBI office, would not discuss what specifically made the bomb so dangerous but said the investigation has become a top priority.

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Phylicia Barnes Is Missing. Why Is The Media Ignoring The Story?

9:45 pm EST January 18th, 2011 | Crime, Media | 7 Comments

A cynic… or a realist would say Ms. Barnes is the wrong color for the mainstream press to crank up their usual “missing female” hype machine about.

 

More Abramoff Fallout

9:50 am EST January 6th, 2011 | Crime, Republicans | 1 Comment

In another reminder of what happens when we have Republicans running the things, a former aide to Sen. Thad Cochran was sentenced for her role in the Abramoff lobbying scandal.

 

Accusations Vs Assange Are “Rape-Rape”*

7:40 pm EST December 16th, 2010 | Crime | 11 Comments

Via Andrew Sullivan, these are the charges versus Assange:

Used his body weight to hold down Miss A in a sexual manner.

Had unprotected sex with Miss A when she had insisted on him using a condom.

Molested Miss A “in a way designed to violate her sexual integrity”.

Had unprotected sex with Miss W while she was asleep.

*The headline is a reference to Whoopi Goldberg’s distasteful comments on rapist Roman Polanski.

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Tim Pawlenty Pardoned Sex Offender Who Went On To Allegedly Sexually Assault Young Girl

11:20 am EST November 30th, 2010 | Crime, Republicans | 5 Comments

Jeremy Giefer

Not great news for T-Paw.

Two years ago, Gov. Tim Pawlenty and two other officials pardoned Jeremy Giefer, who had served a short time in jail in the 1990s as a young man for having sex with a 14-year-old girlfriend whom he later married.

Blue Earth County prosecutors now say Giefer was sexually assaulting another young girl hundreds of times before and after he received his pardon.

This brings to mind Mike Huckabee’s similar problem with Wayne Dumond.

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Mohamed Osman Mohamud: Somali Teen Arrested In Portland For Attempted Bombing

6:37 am EST November 27th, 2010 | Crime, Terrorism | 96 Comments

Mohamed Osman Mohamud picture
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A Somali-born teenager plotted to carry out a car bomb attack at a crowded Christmas tree lighting ceremony in downtown Portland on Friday, but the bomb turned out to be a dud supplied by undercover agents as part of a sting, federal prosecutors said.

Mohamed Osman Mohamud, 19, was arrested at 5:40 p.m. just after he dialed a cell phone that he thought would blow up a van laden with explosives but instead brought federal agents and Portland police swooping in to take him into custody.

The thwarted attack occurred at Portland’s Pioneer Courthouse Square before the annual Christmas tree lighting ceremony, The Oregonian reported.
Mohamud yelled “Allahu Akhkbar” and tried to kick agents and police as the arrest came, according to prosecutors.

He was charged with attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction.

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