Archive for April 21st, 2009

New telescope will help us find Earthlike neighbors

Written by on Tuesday, April 21st, 2009 in Latest News.

If E.T. has a home, Steve Vogt wants to find it. This week, the planet-hunting scientist and his team of University of California-Santa Cruz astronomers are assembling a sensitive new telescope on the summit of Mount Hamilton that will search the skies for any galactic neighbors.

Original post by AFP and software by Elliott Back

Report Details Pentagon Role in Torture Tactics

Written by on Tuesday, April 21st, 2009 in Latest News.

The Senate Armed Services Committee reveals how Rumsfeld’s DoD adapted methods used to train U.S. personnel to withstand pressure for fake confessions

Why does anyone care about this?

Original post by AFP and software by Elliott Back

McClatchy Newspapers – WASHINGTON — The Bush administration applied relentless pressure on interrogators to use harsh methods on detainees in part to find evidence of cooperation between al Qaida and the late Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein’s regime, according to a former senior U.S. intelligence official and a former Army psychiatrist.

Original post by AFP and software by Elliott Back



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