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The Family
"The family is a story of a self-described 'invisible organization' of Christian conservative activists dedicated to organizing political and business elites into linked small groups they call 'prayer cells' or invisible believing groups.' Members and associates of the Family, also known as the Fellowship, include prominent figures such as senators Sam Brownback, James Ihnofe, and John Ensign; representatives Frank Wolf, Joe Pitts, and Zach Wamp; former attorneys general John Ashcroft and Ed Meese; and many others."
Tags: Christian fundamentalist; Christian Right; government; Focus on the Family; Ivanwald; Arlington, Va.;
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Database Delay
Unethical car sellers putting salvage vehicles on the road has presented a danger to those on the road. KGTV shows how a database could have saved billions of dollars while preventing unnecessary deaths on the road.
Tags: CARFAX; auction; rental car; John Ashcroft; Attorney General; resale; history report;
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Detroit's Terror Trial
In 2003, three men in Detroit were tried on charges of terror-related crimes. They were all of Arab descent and had phony passports. After all three were convicted, reporters conducted an investigation of the trial and found that at least a hundred documents had been withheld from defense lawyers and the chief witness against the men was an international con-artist. The convictions were thrown out and the prosecutor was charged with misconduct.
Tags: war on terror; attorney general John Ashcroft; Patriot Act; sleeper-cells; terrorism; consititutional rights; civil rights; FBI; justice department; federal court
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Enron Top Brass Accused of Dumping Stock Were Big Political Donors
The Center for Public Integrity deals with the extensive record of campaign giving by the top directors and executives at Enron. They found that 24 of the company's directors and executives contributed $800,000 to the Bush campaign, members of Congress and others overseeing investigations of the company from 1999-2001. "Perhaps the most important revelation was that former Enron CEO Kenneth Lay had donated $25,000 to Attorney General John Ashcroft when Ashcroft ran for U.S. Senate."
Tags: Enron; campaign finance; online; CD; Enron's big political donors
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Khobar Towers
A CBS News report reveals that some of the terrorists involved on the attack of American military personnel in the Khobar towers in Saudi Arabia in 1995 will probably never be indicted. Although the Attorney General John Ashcroft admitted that Iranian officials had supposedly initiated the attack, not one Iranian official was named in the indictment. CBS attempts to explain the possible diplomatic considerations that played part in this.
Tags: TAPE; TRANSCRIPT; foreign affairs; Justice Department; oil; energy; business; soldiers; troops; military; bombing; FBI; surveillance; intelligence
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You're in the Hole: A Crackdown on Dissident Prisoners
A Progressive investigation reveals that "in the hours following the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, dissident prisoners were singled out from the general population and take to secure housing units." Some of the isolated inmates were denied access to counsel; their lawyers were denied phone conversations and personal visits with their clients. Cusac finds that most of the segregated prisoners happened to be peace-activists or left-wing. Without any public comment, six weeks after Sept. 11 the Justice Department implemented an interim rule that justified the infringement on the detainees' human rights, and explained the new policy with intelligence and law enforcement concerns.
Tags: Amnesty International; human rights; civil rights; terrorism; John Ashcroft; attorneys; lawyers; military
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Rollback: A Corporate Feeding Frenzy During Bush's Honeymoon
A Multinational Monitor investigative packet looks at the first hundred days for the George W. Bush administration, and finds that the cabinet has "aggressively carried forward the corporate agenda." The stories within the packet focus on the negative consequences to the environment, workers, public health, consumers, civil rights, mining, etc., resulting from the suspension or rescinding of important regulations. One of the articles sheds light on the new bankruptcy rules that favor the automobile industry and finance companies, while diminishing the chance of financially devastated low-income families to resume "lives as productive members of their community." A separate piece reveals the background and the corporate connections of vice-[president Dick Cheney. The packet includes profiles of the members of Bush's "corporate cabinet," and dissects some possible motives that might have inspired their actions in the first 100 days. The profiled officials are: Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao, EPA Administrator Christine Whitman, Veteran Affairs Secretary Anthony J. Principi, Secretary of the Interior Gale Norton, Secretary of Commerce Donald Evans, Treasury Secretary Paul H. O'Neill, Attorney General John Ashcroft, Secretary of Energy Spencer Abraham, Secretary of Education Rod Paige, Director Office of Management and Budget Mitch Daniels, U.S. Trade Representative Robert Zoellick, Secretary of Transportation Norm Minetta, Secretary of Health and Human Services Tommy Thompson, Secretary of Agriculture Ann Veneman, National Security Adviser Condoleeza Rice, Secretary of State Colin Powell.
Tags: politics; business; money and politics; Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA); musculoskeletal disorders; cancer; drinking water; arsenic; ergonomic injuries; roads; forests; bankruptcy
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U.S. pads its arrest record on terrorism
A Philadelphia Inquirer investigative series reveals that the Department of Justice has overstated its record of arresting and convicting terrorists, inflating the numbers it gives Congress with crimes that have no connection to terrorism. Improperly labeled cases involve mostly erratic behavior by mentally ill or drunk people, the Inquirer reports. The Department invented a new crime category, "domestic terrorism," to apply to such cases. The inflated figures were needed to justify budget requests, according to government official quoted in the first story. The latest annual report by the Justice Department listed 236 terrorism convictions, but would not disclose any information about the cases.
Tags: law; September 11; FBI; CIA; statistics; intelligence; lawyers; attorneys; John Ashcroft; Senate; Congress; prosecutors; General Accounting Office (GAO)