From TPM: Gen. David Petraeus, the top U.S. commander of the Afghanistan War, said today the planned burning of Korans by a Florida church could put American troops in danger. “It could endanger troops and it could endanger the overall effort,” Petraeus told the Wall Street Journal. “It is precisely the kind of action the […]
Government Covering Up Immigrant Deaths While Incarcerated
A FOIA request from the ACLU has uncovered some really disturbing facts of inmate deaths inside our immigration jails: As one man lay dying of head injuries suffered in a New Jersey immigration jail in 2007, for example, a spokesman for the federal agency told a reporter that he could learn nothing about the case […]