All Blog Posts from Investigative Round-Up

The New York Times:

American and Afghan officials have begun helping a number of anti-Taliban militias that have independently taken up arms against insurgents in several parts of Afghanistan, prompting hopes of a large-scale tribal rebellion against the Taliban.
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CNN:

Several people who traveled from New York to Pakistan last year with a man accused of plotting a terrorist attack have since returned to the United States, sources close to the investigation told CNN. (read the article)

LA Times:
The federal government routinely failed to follow its own standards regulating immigration detention centers across the country, denying detainees sufficient recreation time and adequate access to attorneys, legal materials and telephones, according to a new report issued Tuesday. (read the article)

USA Today:
Complicating the Obama administration's plan to ramp up civilian aid to Pakistan and Afghanistan , the State Department employs just 18 foreign service officers who can speak the language of the region where the Taliban insurgency rages, according to records and interviews.
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Washington Post:
President Obama vows to rein in the use of a legal privilege that allows the administration to discard lawsuits that involve "state secrets," but then his Justice Department is criticized by a judge in California.
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Los Angeles Times:
Loose oversight and bureaucratic inertia have allowed fraud to fester in a rapidly expanding multibillion-dollar state program that provides personal caregivers to the impoverished elderly and disabled. Hundreds of reports of scams and swindles are going without investigation. (Read the article)

AP:
Indiana state trooper is under investigation for postings on a social networking Web site in which he refers to himself as a "garbage man," calls those he arrests "trash" and brags about heavy drinking.
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Wall Street Jounral:
A coalition of 19 state attorneys general is launching an investigation into controversial bonuses paid to employees at American International Group Inc.'s financial products unit, whose woes brought the insurer to its knees last year.
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The Dallas Morning News:
Gov. Rick Perry suspended admissions to the Corpus Christi State School on Tuesday after police allegations that profoundly disabled residents had been forced into "fight club"-style battles by the employees hired to care for them.
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AP: It's been two years since an American went missing in Iran, and the State Department says it doesn't want Robert Levinson or his family's plight to be forgotten. (Read the article)