All Blog Posts from Investigative Round-Up

The Wall Street Journal:
Fourteen more people have been criminally charged in a growing insider-trading scheme, but evidence exists of a number of additional players who haven't yet been publicly identified. (read the article)

The Independent:
The French intelligence service has warned of a new terrorism threat from suicide bombers carrying in-body explosives that can't be detected by standard airport screening. The method was used in a failed attempt to kill the Saudi anti-terrorism chief in August. (read the article)

LegalTimes:
From appearances and document leaks to preparing witnesses and challenging subpoenas, a group of Covington & Burling lawyers in a seminar today provided an insider guide to defending clients in congressional investigations.
(read the article)

New York Times:
In May 1989, as he feuded with hard-line party rivals over how to handle the students occupying Tiananmen Square, China’s Communist Party chief requested a personal audience with Deng Xiaoping, the patriarch behind the scenes.
(Read the article)

Washington Post:
The Securities and Exchange Commission has reopened an investigation into insider-trading allegations at a major hedge fund, two people familiar with the matter said yesterday.
(read the article)

Washington Post:
New evidence has emerged in an insider-trading investigation that the Securities and Exchange Commission closed two years ago without filing charges, raising questions on Capitol Hill about the government's oversight of what was once one of the nation's most prominent hedge funds.
(read the article)

NEFA Foundation:
The NEFA Foundation has released a new report by NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann titled “Inside As Sahaab: The Story of Ali al Bahlul and the Evolution of Al Qaeda’s Propaganda.” The report is based upon previously unseen evidence presented during the recent Guantanamo Bay military commissions trial of Yemeni national Ali Hamza Ahmad Suliman al Bahlul.
(download the report)

TIME:
Both John McCain and Barack Obama have said they would shut the U.S. military detention facility at Guantánamo Bay, where about 250 men remain behind bars — some in their eighth year of captivity. But neither presidential candidate has outlined when and how they plan to do it. One man ready to offer them some free advice on the problem of Guantánamo is Sami Al-Hajj, an al-Jazeera TV cameraman recently freed, without facing charges, after six and a half years at Guantánamo. "It's worse than the fire of Hell," he wrote two years ago from his cell to his British attorney, Clive Stafford Smith. "It makes people lose their senses. Death may come at any time."
(read the article)

Reuters:
Magistrates investigating alleged insider trading at European defence and aerospace group EADS and its Airbus unit on Friday placed another executive under formal investigation while releasing him on bail.
(read the article)

Guardian:
An agreement on intellectual property rights to be ratified by the G8 heads of government highlights conflicts between ownership and privacy
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