News Updates from CLG
22 January 2015
22 January 2015
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1). Yes, of course, Google is still relegating CLG News to the sp-m
bins.
2). CLG Newsletter Was Not Delivered to Many
Subscribers | 20 Jan 2015 | Many people did not
receive Sunday's CLG Newsletter (GCHQ
captured emails of journalists from BBC, Reuters, the Guardian, the New York
Times and others), sent at 7:56 PM EST. If
you did not receive this edition, please write clg_news at legitgov.org and I'll
happily re-send it.
3). Outage of CLG Site for Comcast Customers | 18 - 21 Jan 2015 | Due to a technical malfunction
and the service provider's apparent unwillingness or lack of urgency to address
it, the CLG site has been unavailable to Comcast
Internet customers from Florida through Pennsylvania. [Update:
This problem has (mostly) been rectified, as of late Wednesday
evening.]
4).
Regarding the previous CLG Newsletter, GCHQ is the UK's Government Communications Headquarters -- aka
England's 'NSA' -- which I should have noted after the abbreviation.
--LRP
C.I.A. Report Found Value of Torture Was
Inflated | 20 Jan 2015 | Years before the
release in December of a Senate Intelligence Committee report detailing the
C.I.A.'s use of torture and deceit in its detention program, an internal review
by the agency found that the C.I.A. had repeatedly overstated the value of
intelligence gained during the brutal interrogations of some of its detainees prisoners. The internal
report, more than 1,000 pages in length, came to be known as the Panetta Review
after Leon E. Panetta, who, as the C.I.A.'s director, ordered that it be done in
2009. The contents of the Panetta Review, which remain classified, are now
central to simmering battles over the Intelligence Committee's conclusions about
the efficacy of torture and the C.I.A.'s allegations that committee staffers
improperly took the review from an agency facility.
Six-year wait for 9m-pound 'whitewash': 179 British men and women
sacrificed their lives in the Iraq war. Yesterday their loved ones branded
Chilcot delays an insult to their memories
| 22 Jan 2015 | Families of soldiers killed in Iraq last night condemned the
'disgraceful' decision to further delay the Chilcot report. Six years after the
9million-pound inquiry started - and 12 years on from the 2003 war - bereaved
parents said they were expecting a whitewash. John Miller, whose son Simon was
among six military policemen killed by an Iraqi mob, said: 'It is absolutely
disgraceful, although I could use stronger words. It is becoming the biggest
cover-up of our generation...'
Iraq war report 'delayed until after UK
election' | 20 Jan 2015 | The official
inquiry into the 2003 Iraq War will not publish its long-awaited report before
the general election, the BBC understands. The BBC's political editor Nick
Robinson said inquiry chairman Sir John Chilcot is expected to confirm in a
letter to David Cameron that it will be delayed until after May's poll. The
inquiry began its work in 2009 and held its last public hearing in 2011. Deputy
Prime Minister Nick Clegg said the delay was "incomprehensible".
Obama to call on Congress to approve continued military action
against Isis | 20 Jan 2015 |
Barack Obama is calling on Congress to authorise continued military action in
the Middle East, following growing criticism that his existing air strikes in
Iraq and Syria lacked the necessary legally underpinning. In excerpts from his
sixth State of the Union speech released early by the White House, the president
also suggests that the coalition fight against the Islamic State will continue
for months if not years to come..."And tonight, I call on this Congress to show
the world that we are united in this mission by passing a resolution to
authorize the use of force against Isil."
In State of the Union Speech, Obama Defiantly Sets an Ambitious
Agenda | 20 Jan 2015 | President Obama
claimed credit on Tuesday for an improving economy and defiantly told his
Republican adversaries in Congress to "turn the page" by supporting an expensive
domestic agenda aimed at improving the fortunes of the middle class. Released
from the political constraints of a sagging economy, overseas wars and
elections, Mr. Obama declared in his sixth State of the Union address that "the
shadow of crisis has passed," and he vowed to use his final two years in office
fighting for programs that had taken a back seat. He called on Congress to make
community college free for most students, enhance tax credits for education and
child care, and impose new taxes and fees on high-income earners and large
financial institutions.
State of the Union 2015: Full transcript --As Prepared for Delivery | 20 Jan 2015 | There is
a ritual on State of the Union night in Washington. A little before the address,
the White House sends out an embargoed copy of the President's speech to the
press (embargoed means that the press can see the speech, but they can't report
on it until a designated time). The reporters then start sending it around town
to folks on Capitol Hill to get their reaction, then those people send it to all
their friends, and eventually everyone in Washington can read along, but the
public remains in the dark. This year we change that. For the first time, the
White House is making the full text of the speech available to citizens around
the country online...
At least 9 killed, dozen injured after shell hit stop - eastern
Ukraine | 22 Jan 2015 | A stop was shelled
during rush hour on Thursday morning in the Ukrainian city of Donetsk. Nine
people were killed and up to twenty were injured, local authorities report.
Residents of Donetsk's Leninsky district heard shelling at about 07:40 local
time...On January 13, twelve people died and 13 more were injured as a bus
was shelled in the eastern Donetsk region, Ukraine's Interior Ministry said.
Denis Pushilin, Donetsk People's Republic representative at Minsk talks, said
the attack may have been staged by Kiev.
South Ossetia Leader Says Treaty Could Call for Joining
Russia | 11 Dec 2014 | The de facto leader
of Georgia's breakaway South Ossetia region says a planned treaty with Moscow
could call for the separatist province region to become part of Russia. Leonid
Tibilov said on December 10 that his government will probably sign a treaty
strengthening ties with Russia early next year. He said it would codify "a
qualitatively new level of integration."
Journalists reporting on asylum seekers referred to Australian
police | 21 Jan 2015 | Journalists
reporting on the federal government's asylum-seeker policies have been
repeatedly referred to the police in attempts to uncover confidential sources
and whistleblowers, a Guardian Australia investigation can reveal. Over the past
12 months federal government agencies have referred stories by journalists from
Guardian Australia, news.com.au and the West Australian to the Australian
federal police (AFP) for their reporting on the government's asylum seeker
operations during the time Scott Morrison was immigration minister. Almost every
referral made to the AFP by federal government agencies "for unauthorised
disclosure of commonwealth information" since the Coalition took office in
September 2013 has been directly related to immigration reporting by
journalists.
Journalism is not a crime. So why are reporters being referred to
police? | 21 Jan 2015 | Journalism in
Australia is not a crime. Despite this, journalists who have reported on
immigration and asylum seeker issues have been referred to the Australian Federal Police for investigation in a series of
attempts to prosecute confidential sources and whistleblowers. This is a move
that should alarm all citizens...Journalists from Guardian Australia,
News.com.au and the West Australian have all had their stories sent to the AFP
by customs, the immigration department and the defence department to ask the AFP
to track down their sources. There may be journalists from other news outlets
involved.
Fukushima worker dies after falling into water storage
tank | 19 Jan 2015 | A worker at Japan's
destroyed Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant died on Tuesday after falling
inside a water storage tank, the latest in a spate of industrial accidents at
the site of the March 2011 nuclear disaster, the world's worst since Chernobyl. The death is the
second in Fukushima in less than a year. Last week, labor inspectors warned the
operator of the plant, Tokyo Electric Power Co., about the rise in accidents and
ordered it to take measures to deal with the problem. An unnamed laborer in his
50s working for construction company Hazama Ando Corp. on Monday fell into a
10-metre-high (33 feet) water storage tank he had been inspecting.
Plane searched at JFK airport after bomb threat; no
injuries | 19 Jan 2015 | Authorities say a
passenger jet at John F. Kennedy Airport was given the all clear following a
bomb threat. Port Authority spokesman Joe Pentangelo says Delta Air Lines Flight
468 from San Francisco to New York with 171 passengers landed at JFK Airport
just after 7:40 p.m. Monday. Pentangelo says the Boeing 757 was evacuated and
taken to a remote part of the runway where it was swept and found to have no
explosives.
1 critical, suspect dead [or in custody] in shooting at Brigham and
Women's Hospital in Boston
--Hospital, streets were on lockdown | 20 Jan 2015 | A cardiologist at
Boston's Brigham and Women's hospital is in critical condition Tuesday after he
was shot twice by a gunman who police say fatally shot himself in a nearby exam
room. Authorities did not immediately release the identities of the gunman and
victim but credited a swift response by police and hospital staffers to control
the situation. The victim was rushed to the emergency room where he was treated
for his life-threatening injuries...The Boston Globe reported
that the hospital was under a Code Black, which means no additional patients
were being accepted.
Justice Dept. to Recommend No Civil Rights Charges in Ferguson
Shooting | 21 Jan 2015 | Justice Department
lawyers will recommend that no civil rights charges be brought against the
police officer involved in the fatal shooting of an unarmed teenager in
Ferguson, Mo., after an F.B.I. investigation found no evidence to support
charges, law enforcement officials said Wednesday. Attorney General Eric H.
Holder Jr. and his civil rights chief, Vanita Gupta, will have the final say on
whether the Justice Department will close the case against the officer, Darren
Wilson. But it would be unusual for them to overrule the prosecutors on the
case, who are still working on a legal memo explaining their
recommendation.
Polar bears migrate north as rising temperatures hasten Arctic ice
melt | 17 Jan 2015 | It was just a theory,
but for years scientists believed what years of observation were telling them.
As Arctic sea ice melted because of climate change global warming,
polar bears appeared to be creeping their way toward a final refuge in the icy
Canadian archipelago. Now a study of
polar bear DNA backs that up. Scientists who research the animals across the
Arctic teamed up to produce a paper showing that the "directional gene flow" of
recent polar bear generations is "moving towards areas with more persistent
year-round sea ice".
Romney and Jeb Bush to Meet in Utah | 21 Jan 2015 | Jeb Bush and Mitt Romney are scheduled to meet
privately this week in Utah, raising the possibility that the two former
governors will find a way to avoid competing presidential campaigns that would
split the Republican establishment next year, two prominent party members said
Wednesday night. The meeting was planned before Mr. Romney's surprise
announcement two weeks ago to donors in New York that he was considering a third
run for the White House. Mr. Bush proposed the meeting, according to one of the
party members familiar with the planning, who did not want to be quoted by name
in discussing a secret meeting.
DeflateGate: NFL finds 11 of 12 Patriots' footballs were
underinflated, say reports | 21 Jan 2015 |
Eleven of the dozen footballs used by the New England Patriots in the AFC
championship game were not inflated to NFL specifications, league sources have
told ESPN, miring the team in controversy as they prepare for the Super Bowl.
ESPN first reported that the league had found 11 footballs were underinflated by
2lb of air per square inch. League regulations state that each game ball be
inflated between 12.5-13.5lb PSI.
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