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Report: Accused Killer Raymond Davis Was CIA Spy in Pakistan
By Lauren Frayer - AOL NewsIt started out suspiciously: An all-American-looking man in a plaid shirt and jeans pulled a Glock pistol on two motorcyclists last month in Pakistan, police said, shooting them dead in the street in broad daylight. Initial reports had Raymond Davis firing his gun in self-defense during a robbery attempt. But then police searched his car and found multiple guns, cell phones, infrared lights and survival gear. Meanwhile, a U.S. diplomatic car racing to the scene crashed and killed another Pakistani man en route. Then the widow of one of the men committed suicide. Hamza Ahmed, ...
Mexican Lawmaker Denied Immunity in Drug Cartel Case
By Mara Gay - AOL News(Dec. 15) -- Mexico's Congress has voted to strip a lawmaker of his immunity, allowing for the prosecution of a sitting congressman with alleged ties to the country's powerful drug cartels for the first time ever in the country. Lawmakers voted 382-2 to let federal prosecutors move forward with a criminal case against Julio Cesar Godoy, a representative from the state of Michoacan accused of laundering money for the notorious La Familia cartel. "It is our judgment that there is enough evidence to support the accusations by the attorney general's office," Cesar Augusto Santiago, who headed ...
House Dems Defy Bush on Immunity
By Jay Allbritton - Politics DailyYesterday, President Bush again called on House Democrats to renew the Protect America Act with language that would provide immunity to telecom companies that helped spy on Americans. "Should those who stepped forward to say we're going to help defend America," President Bush asked, "have to go to the courthouse to defend themselves, or should the Congress and the president say thank you for doing your patriotic duty? I believe we ought to say thank you." He's not going to be very happy when he hears that not only are House Democrats refusing to cave on telecom immunity, but the new draft of ...
Top Democrat Says FISA Deal Near
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyThe Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, Silvestre Reyes (D-TX), said on Sunday that a deal was in the works to pass a controversial extension of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or FISA, as early as this week. Speaking on CNN's "Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer," Reyes said that the House is moving closer to approving a bipartisan Senate passed extension of the law, which contains immunity for telecommunications companies that have previously assisted the government in listening in on potential terrorists' communications.Democrat leaders in the House had been holding up the ...
Immunity Battle Looms in Senate
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyThe Senate is debating an extension to the Protect America Act, a law passed last summer that grants authority for intelligence agencies to eavesdrop on foreign communications without warrants. The law is set to expire on February 1. The Bush Administration wants a permanent extension of the law and wants it to include retroactive immunity for telecommunications companies that may have cooperated with the government on wiretaps before the law was passed.In a speech yesterday to the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank, Vice-President Cheney said that immunity was a vital piece of the ...
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