The National Security Agency shared with other government operations some of the data it collected while eavesdropping on communications between the U.S. and overseas, the Washington Post reported. The information, such as records of telephone calls and e- mails, was cross-checked with databases compiled by those agencies, including the Defense Intelligence Agency, the Post said, citing unnamed current and former administration officials. Agencies that get the information can use it for ``data mining'' to look for patterns or relationships, the newspaper reported. The DIA may have used the information to conduct surveillance on people inside the U.S. ...
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 Bush starts New Year with visit to wounded troops |
Bush started the New Year on Sun by visiting wounded troops, mostly from the Iraq war, who are receiving care in Texas. After spending the holiday week at his ranch in Texas, Bush stopped at Brooke Army Medical Center at Fort Sam Houston, where he awarded 9 Purple Hearts and visited about 50 wounded troops. He was return to Washington later in the day to tackle his agenda for 2006, another year in which the Iraq war is expected to be a dominating factor with critics calling for US troops to withdraw. Bush has maintained he will not set a timetable for a troop pullout, a move he said would embolden the enemy. The hospital, which has a burn center and amputee center, has cared for more than 2,340 members of the US armed forces injured mostly in Iraq and also Afghanistan. When all the truth about this war finally comes out how are the wounded and the relatives of the dead going to feel? Will they meekly accept the sacrifice, or will they demand a War Crimes Trial for the liars?...
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060101/ts_nm/bush_troops_dc
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Editor - 11:15:00 01-01-06
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| Fireworks and parties mark 2006 |
Exuberant firework displays and huge street parties have been marking the start of 2006 across the world. From Sydney to London, Moscow to New York, crowds of people have been cheering in the New Year. In Brazil, Rio de Janeiro held its biggest fireworks display, while revellers ignored bad weather to pack into Times Square in New York. The US city of New Orleans said goodbye to 2005 with a jazz funeral procession for the victims of Hurricane Katrina. Four months after the devastation which killed more than 1,000 people, the southern city welcomed 2006 with concerts and music, putting on a show that officials hope will help draw back the tourists. For many Asian cities, the New Year celebrations were their first such event for two years, after the Indian Ocean tsunami caused celebrations for 2005 to be cancelled. In the Australian city of Sydney, police deployed in strength to prevent a repetition of the racial violence seen earlier this month. ...
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| Churchill took hardline on Gandhi |
Winston Churchill favoured letting Gandhi die if he went on hunger strike, newly published Cabinet papers show. The UK's WWII prime minister thought India's spiritual leader should be treated like anyone else if he stopped eating while being held by the British. But his ministers persuaded him against the tactic, fearing Gandhi would become a martyr if he died in British hands. Gandhi was detained in 1942 after he condemned India's involvement in the war but never went on hunger strike. Many British officials initially took a hardline stance to the possibility of such action. The Viceroy of then British-run India, Lord Linlithgow, said he was "strongly in favour of letting Gandhi starve to death". But senior government figures, such as former foreign secretary Lord Halifax argued: "Whatever the disadvantages of letting him out, his detention would be much worse." Eventually in January 1943, ministers decided that although they could not give into a hunger strike publicly - they ...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4573152.stm
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| 'Silver Meteor' 28 Hours Late |
Amtrak's Silver Meteor train arrived in New York from Florida more than 28 hours late on New Year's Eve, releasing more than 100 exhausted, hungry and angry passengers. Their train had been stuck in Jacksonville, Fla., for half a day because of a derailed CSX freight train, then stopped again in rural Georgia as they waited for the tracks to reopen. A litany of complaints echoed through New York's Penn Station as about 100 passengers finally stepped off the escalator from the tracks below. "I'm tired. I just want to sleep," said Jonathan Papik, 11, who was headed home to Long Island with his mother, Teresa Papik, after the marathon trip from Orlando, Fla. ...
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| Roberts asks Congress to raise judges' pay |
In his first year-end assessment of the federal judiciary, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. urged Congress to increase judicial pay to help keep good judges on the bench and to recruit new ones. Chief Justice Roberts, who succeeded the late William H. Rehnquist on the Supreme Court, warned Congress that judges' pay is an issue that is driving them off the bench and deterring qualified lawyers from throwing their names into consideration for judgeships. "A strong and independent judiciary is not something that, once established, maintains itself," he wrote. "It is instead a trust that every generation is called upon to preserve, and the values it secures can be lost as readily through neglect as direct attack." In many of his 19 year-end reports, former Chief Justice Rehnquist put judicial pay raises at the top of his wish list for Congress' consideration, once noting wryly that he realized he was "beating a dead horse." ...
http://www.washtimes.com/national/20060101-122306-5152r.htm
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