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Killings At The Canal: The Army Tapes
War crime by American soldiers in Iraq is something that has never been seen before, until now. Four Iraqi detainees were killed and no one knew why, until the videotapes of the interrogations were found and everything was revealed. Also, the rules of the Army led the American soldiers to kill these detainees, as written in a memo.
Tags: Baghdad; sergeants; military; crime; Joshua Hartson; mission; murder; weapons; federal government
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Gov. Matt Blunt Email Scandal
An email sent by Gov. Matt Blunt's chief of staff urged political groups to speak against the man who was running for Blunt's seat, Attorney General Jay Nixon. In the email it was implied that state resources were being used for political purposes.
Tags: memo; sunshine law; public record; Henry Herschel; taxpayer;
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Justice Capsized?
"An investigation of the U.S. Coast Guard's administrative law system, based on internal memos, interviews, the sworn statement of an agency judge and a computer data analysis of thousands of cases, suggests the system in stacked against the hundreds of civilian mariners whose charges of negligence or misconduct are handled by the courts each year. Documents and computer records show that Coast Guards leaders encourage judges to rule in the agency's favor, sometimes in violation of federal laws."
Tags: Coast Guard; justice; law system; mariners; seaman; seagoers
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What Crime? What Rape?
This St. Louis Post-Dispatch investigation the conspicuously low number of reported rapes in St. Louis. It found the St. Louis Police Department engaging in practices to keep the number of crimes down for statistics---especially crimes involving sexual assault or rape. Records show that the department made use of informal, handwritten "crime memos" to document such cases instead of official reports. These memos were frequently lost, and in most cases the investigations were never pursued or followed up.
Tags: crime statistics; crime reports; St. Louis Police Department; sex crimes; rape; sexual assault; DNA testing; criminal records
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The Jesus Landing Pad: Bush White House checked with rapture Christians before latest Israel move
After obtaining memos from secret meetings between members of the White House and fundamentalist Christian leaders, the Village Voice discovered top Middle East aides who justified Israeli policy decisions because they coincided with Biblical prophesy. This investigation looks into "the role apocolyptic Christians play in sabotaging the Middle East peace process."
Tags: religion; Bush administration; Israeli policy; Gaza Strip; anti-prostelyzation laws; Pastor Robert Upton; Israel Embassy; Americans for a Safe Israel
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Rate of exchange
This investigation, fueled by memos that noted campaign contributions on one side and policy areas that interested the donors on the other, tracked how Texas legislators passed the favored bills of their campaign contributors, including some legislation that was harmful to consumers.
Tags: campaign contributions; Texas legislature; Texans for a Republican Majority
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The Texas Clemency Memos
This story reveals how George Bush violated his statement that he "carefully" reviewed all claims for clemency as the Governor of Texas. During his tenure a record number of 152 executions took place. Bush relied on summaries that ran for just a few pages before rejecting some of pleas. This in-depth piece looks at how the summaries could have misinformed Bush about the pending executions.
Tags: Executions; Texas Executions; George W Bush; Governor of Texas; Alberto R Gonzales
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Red Cross Investigation
CBS investigates "widespread mismanagement and fraud" the Red Cross has been grappling with. Based on internal memos and audits, the series reports on how Joseph Lecowitch, head of the New Jersey chapter stole more than one million dollars. Other findings are that many chapters have not remitted their Sept. 11 donations to national headquarters; chapters are dipping into the National Disaster Fund "for unnamed purposes;" blood has been taken from donors who said they tested positive for AIDS or were not properly screened; and suspected transfusion-related diseases are not investigated.
Tags: Elizabeth Dole; lobbying; FDA; safety; health; embezzlement; fraud; charity; 9/11; TAPE; TRANSCRIPT
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Without warning: Static fires at the gas pump
KVBC-TV reports that static fires at gas pump are becoming a national problem. According to the contest questionnaire: "Major oil companies and automakers had knowledge about these fires they did not share with the public." The story, which started as a follow-up about a fire that burned a small girl, was based on lawsuits, Exxon-Mobil internal memos and reports from the Petroleum Equipment Institute.
Tags: TAPE; TRANSCRIPT; safety; corporate interests; business; fuel; General Motors
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FAA Whistleblower, American Gun, and Atta and the Mechanic
The three stories deal with aviation security up to 9/11. The first story, FAA Whistleblower, is about the first FAA official to go on the record blaming senior officials in the agency for contributing to the situation that allowed the hijackings of 9/11. The second story, American Gun, is about an FAA memo which describes one of the hijackers aboard American Airlines flight 11 shooting another passengers. The third story, Atta and the Mechanic, is about Mohammed Atta and an American Airlines mechanic encounter several months before 9/11.
Tags: FAA; security; 9/11; Atta; mechanic; American Airlines; hijackings; tape; transcript