14 April 2006
Courtroom bumps for the war on terror
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Alexander Cockburn
A terrorism trial of two Muslims in federal court in Sacramento has thus far left the FBI looking manipulative, credulous, and prodigiously extravagant.

At the center of the case are two Pakistanis living in Lodi, a...
19 February 2006
A "100 percent certainty": the FBI and the myth of fingerprints
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Alexander Cockburn
Few law enforcement institutions have been so thoroughly discredited in recent years as the FBI's forensic laboratory. In 1997, the Bureau's inspector general (IG) at the time issued a devastating report, stigmatizing one instance after...
19 February 2006
U.S. Supports Iran in Rejecting Gay Rights Organizations at the UN
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Gene C Gerard
Given the Bush administration’s rhetoric regarding the Iranian government you wouldn’t think the two have much, if anything, in common. In his 2002 State of the Union address President Bush referred to Iran as part of an “axis of evil,...
09 February 2006
How not to spot a terrorist
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Alexander Cockburn
Paranoid America -- by which I mean its governors -- has long dreamed of foolproof technology to guard the Homeland from subversion, or penetration, by alien hostiles.

In its latest variant, the vaunted technology...
14 January 2006
The FBI and Edward Said
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Alexander Cockburn
The FBI was probably tapping Edward Said's phone right up to the day he died in September of 2003. A year earlier, when he was already a very sick man, Said was scheduled to speak at an event at the Kopkind Colony summer session near...
20 December 2005
2005: Record year for gay and transgender state legislative victories
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Human Rights Campaign
"The road has potholes but equality is on the horizon," said Human Rights Campaign President Joe Solmonese.

WASHINGTON - Gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender (GLBT) Americans scored big wins in 2005, according to a...

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