Cornyn calls White House push for journalist shield law a red herring
Source: The Dallas Morning News
Say'ūn :: Yemen | updated 2013-05-15 14:01:42 -0700 | entertainment-news
Sen. John Cornyn at a Judiciary Committee meeting May 9. (AP/J. Sen. John Cornyn sent Attorney General Eric Holder a terse letter today scolding the Justice Department for scooping up AP reporters' phone records. But as for the White House's...
Recent leak cases and First Amendment battles
Source: Associated Press
Say'ūn :: Yemen | updated 2013-05-15 13:29:30 -0700 | political-news
Government information leaks and collisions with the media date back decades and decades...In the early 1970s, the Justice Department went to court to prevent further publication in The New York Times of portions of a top-secret study, dubbed the Pentagon...
Langevin: 'Deep concerns' about AP phone records
Source: Boston.com
Say'ūn :: Yemen | updated 2013-05-15 09:48:31 -0700 | disasters-news
R.I. (AP) Rep. Jim Langevin (LAN'-juh-vin) says he has deep concerns'' about the Justice Department's secret examination of Associated Press phone records. The Rhode Island Democrat, a member of the House Intelligence Committee, says in a written statement on Wednesday...
Yemenis feel pinch of...
Source: Arab News
Say'ūn :: Yemen | updated 2013-05-14 16:28:07 -0700 | political-news
Irfan Mohammed Wednesday 15 May 2013 Last Update 15 May 2013 2:03 am The Yemeni expatriate community, known for its savvy business skills, has been severely affected by the new labor laws issued by the Saudi Ministry of Labor, especially...
Holder: AP leak was 'very serious'
Source: BBC
Say'ūn :: Yemen | updated 2013-05-14 12:26:50 -0700 | allnews
Eric Holder says leak to AP was 'very serious' Attorney General Eric Holder said he had removed himself out of "an abundance of caution" US Attorney General Eric Holder has said the leak that prompted the seizure of Associated Press...
Holder: AP leak was 'very serious'
Source: BBC
Say'ūn :: Yemen | updated 2013-05-14 12:26:50 -0700 | allnews
Eric Holder says leak to AP was 'very serious' Attorney General Eric Holder said he had removed himself out of "an abundance of caution" US Attorney General Eric Holder has said the leak that prompted the seizure of Associated Press...
Sleepy Hollow trailer gives the Headless Horseman an assault rifle
Source: io9
Say'ūn :: Yemen | updated 2013-05-14 09:02:33 -0700 | technology-news
Fox's new Sleepy Hollow series upgrades Ichabod Crane into a time-traveling Robert Langdon-type character who must save us all from the reincarnation of the Headless Horseman and make Starbucks jokes...Ichabod Crane has transformed from the nebbish cartoon characterinto a secret...
Former Attorney General Ramsey Clark Decries Government's "Big Brother" Seizure of AP Phone Records
Source: Democracy Now
Say'ūn :: Yemen | updated 2013-05-14 07:56:46 -0700 | political-news
This is viewer supported news The Associated Press says the U.S. Department of Justice has secretly obtained a trove of journalists' phone records in what its chief executive called a "massive and unprecedented intrusion." The Obama administration seized records for...
Africa: Girls Forced to Marry Face Physical Health Problems - Report
Source: All Africa
Say'ūn :: Yemen | updated 2013-05-14 06:45:37 -0700 | health-news
But when she was 14, the uncle who was raising her told her she was too old for school and forced her to marry a man she described as old, gray-haired, and married to another woman with whom he had...
Gitmo prisoner: Obama has 'abandoned' detainees
Source: Fox
Say'ūn :: Yemen | updated 2013-05-14 14:57:38 -0700 | political-news
Associated Press Gitmo Grads The Pentagon's latest estimate says roughly 20 percent of the 560 detainees released from the Guantanamo Bay Detention Center are believed to have returned to the terror front lines a nearly 50 percent increase from the...
Gitmo prisoner: Obama has 'abandoned' detainees
Source: Taiwan News
Say'ūn :: Yemen | updated 2013-05-14 02:30:34 -0700 | political-news
A Guantanamo Bay detainee says he feels abandoned by President Barack Obama and the world after more than 10 years at the U.S. prison. Musa'ab Omar Al Madhwani made that statement in a federal court declaration about a month before...
Military plane explodes over Yemeni capital
Posted by: northsunm32
Sanaa :: Yemen | updated 2013-05-17 11:22:31 -0700 | disasters-news
A Russian-made Sukhoi SU-22 fighter on a routine training exercise apparently exploded in midair over the capital of Yemen, Sanaa, killing the pilot. The plane slammed into a residential neighbourhood with fragments of the plane setting small fires in four...
Yemen tribesmen kidnap Swiss, Kenyan Red Cross staff
Source: Daily Nation
Say'ūn :: Yemen | updated 2013-05-13 19:56:51 -0700 | travel-news
Armed tribesmen kidnapped two expatriate employees of the International Committee of the Red Cross and their interpreter in southern Yemen on Monday, witnesses and militia sources said. Jaar, which was held by loyalists of Al-Qaeda for 12 months until it...
Obama Denounces IRS Targeting, Alaska Republicans Still Love Palin, and More
Source: Truthdig
Say'ūn :: Yemen | updated 2013-05-13 17:41:16 -0700 | political-news
President Obama has finally addressed the Internal Revenue Service matter, three days after news broke that the IRS targeted tea party and conservative political groups that were looking to gain tax-exempt status. During a news conference Monday, Obama strongly condemned...
Benghazi scapegoat remains in prison for film
Source: The Washington Times
Say'ūn :: Yemen | updated 2013-05-13 15:30:26 -0700 | technology-news
The man who made the anti-Islam film that the Obama administration erroneously blamed for the Benghazi terror attacks remains in federal prison eight months later, serving a yearlong sentence for probation violations stemming from his involvement with the video.
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