The Jacksonville chapter of the controversial group ACT! for America is accusing a local school of ties to terrorism in a new press release, linking the school to an FBI investigation through a media report that, contrary to ACT!’s claims, indicates any actions the FBI is conducting has nothing to do with terrorism.
Over the weekend, The Miami Herald used documents unearthed by the whistleblower website WikiLeaks to publish an interesting account of how the U.S. government worked to convince Spanish officials not to pursue an investigation into accusations of torture made against senior U.S. officials — an effort that included pressure brought by former Sen. Mel Martinez, R-Fla.
In an MSNBC interview last week, WikiLeaks leader Julian Assange responded to Florida resident and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee’s call for the execution of whoever leaked hundreds of thousands of diplomatic cables to the whistleblower website. Assange called Huckabee “just another idiot trying to make a name for himself.” Video after the jump.
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In response to “West calls for ‘censoring’ news outlets working with WikiLeaks”:
Tea party favorite Rep.-elect Allen West, R-Fort Lauderdale, is back-peddling on comments he made regarding the WikiLeaks controversy last week on a right-wing Internet radio program, in which the incoming lawmaker called for “censoring the American news agencies which enabled [WikiLeaks] to do this.”
WikiLeaks continues to roll out secret diplomatic cables from its cache of a quarter million such communiqués, revealing late Wednesday that energy giant BP dealt with a blowout following a gas leak in the country of Azerbaijan 18 months before the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico.
Rep.-elect Allen West, R-Fort Lauderdale, one-upped the calls for the prosecution of Wikileaks by calling for the “censoring” of news agencies that publish the organization’s cables.
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In response to “Proponent of Arizona-style immigration law to chair Judiciary Committee”:
A week after saying that the American public has “a right to know” the contents of the diplomatic documents released by the whistleblower website WikiLeaks, Rep. Connie Mack, R-Cape Coral, once again defended the site yesterday, and sharply criticized the federal government for intimidating citizens and businesses associated with WikiLeaks.
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In response to “National papers defend Feinberg’s handling of oil spill claims”:
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