Federal officials say a raid at a northeastern Iowa meat processing plant this week was the largest in U.S. history, in terms of the number of people arrested. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials say 390 people have been arrested on immigration charges after Monday’s raid at Agriprocessors Inc. in Postville, the world’s largest kosher meatpacking plant.
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Former Attorney General John Ashcroft will appear at a federal hearing looking into no-bid contracts he and others received to monitor out-of-court corporate settlements, including a New Jersey deal in which Ashcroft stood to make millions of dollars
Sphere: Related ContentThe House of Representatives voted Thursday to cite two White House aides for contempt for refusing to testify about their participation in the firing of federal law enforcement officials.
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A defendant in the Louisiana “Jena Six” case was arrested after allegedly slamming a student’s head into a bench at his new school in Texas, police said.
Sphere: Related ContentAllen Raymond, a former Republican National Committee operative, shares secrets from the GOP bunker.
The end of Free Speech in America has arrived at our doorstep. It’s a new law called the Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act, and it is worded in a clever way that could allow the U.S. government to arrest and incarcerate any individual who speaks out against the Bush Administration, the war on Iraq, the Department of Homeland Security or any government agency (including the FDA)
Sphere: Related ContentA judge who thinks mass jailings are the best way to respond to his own irritation — without probable cause or even an individualized suspicion that each of the 46 detainees had done something wrong — deserves to lose his job. Thankfully, Restaino lost his.
Sphere: Related ContentTo whet our appetite, the publisher has released a pretty damning excerpt in which McClellan in no uncertain terms implicates Bush and Cheney in the disinformation campaign that Scotty undertook from his post in the press room to exonerate the administration in the outing of Valerie Wilson.
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