The Wake-Up Call

War on Terror 
- Freed Iranian diplomat claims he was tortured by the CIA at a base near Baghdad airport.

- Contractors who commit crimes in Iraq or elsewhere are off the hook: They’re beyond the reach of law enforcement because the Pentagon hasn’t updated its regulations. 

- Professor Walter F. Murphy, a Korean war hero, gets stopped at airport by TSA agents because he’s on a terrorist watch list. (He gave a speech critical of President Bush at Princeton in 2006.) 

Contract Capers 
- Boeing’s contract to design the border security initiative SBInet could top $30 billion without very much oversight from the government. 

Beltway Blotter 
- One Congressman, Virginia’s Eric Cantor, owned stock in CIT Group Inc, one of the student lenders probed by New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo. 

Spy vs. Spy 
- Did the US officials cover up the involvement of Indonesian military in the shooting deaths of two American schoolteachers? (via Raw Story) 

Environment
- Saving the world’s natural wonders (Great Barrier Reef, the Himalayas, the Amazon) from climate change

- The CIA and Pentagon have a enemy in their sights: Global warming. 

Ephemera
- Over the course of a year, Justine Cooper took photographs of the behind-the-scenes storage areas in the American Museum of Natural History. Here are the creepy but fascinating results.

- That “Seven-Minute Sopranos” video that everyone’s talking about (in case you missed any of the six seasons).

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   April 9th, 2007 at 11:57 am

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   April 9th, 2007 at 11:58 am

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   April 9th, 2007 at 11:59 am

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