Reuters is out with a huge new article about spying, but this time the agency is the Drug Enforcement Agency: A secretive U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration unit is funneling information from intelligence intercepts, wiretaps, informants and a massive database of telephone records to authorities across the nation to help them launch criminal investigations of Americans. […]
Wells Fargo received $25 billion from the George Bush TARP program. One of Wells Fargo’s biggest problems was the acquisition of Wachovia in December of 2008. Wachovia came with a whole slew of problems, but probably none bigger than this: On 10 April 2006, a DC-9 jet landed in the port city of Ciudad del […]
Looks like you may have some questions to answer to: Rudolph Giuliani and his consulting company, Giuliani Partners, have served as key advisors for the last five years to the pharmaceutical company that pled guilty today to charges it misled doctors and patients about the addiction risks of the powerful narcotic painkiller OxyContin. Federal officials […]
Via the BBC: Chavez makes US oil export threat BBC Oil exports to the US could stop amid growing tensions between the two countries, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has said. He described recent US government actions as “aggressive” in a speech at a youth festival in Caracas. As a result, Venezuelan oil “instead of […]
While we are fighting a war in Iraq and a war on terror, we often forget about the other war that has been going on longer than those two combined. That is the war on drugs. This week it has taken a turn for the worse with a break down in diplomatic relations involving one […]