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Archives for November 2012

Hospitals Get New Grades On Safety

The Leapfrog Group is out with its second round of hospital safety ratings, and what a difference a few months has made. In the results released Wednesday, 103 hospitals that Leapfrog had given a “C” or lower in its first round of ratings in June got an “A” in the updated Hospital Safety Score, based on more recent data […]

Jordan Rau
By Jordan Rau
A doctor talks with patients at a hospital Wednesday, July 11, 2012. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)

The Leapfrog Group is out with its second round of hospital safety ratings, and what a difference a few months has made. In the results released Wednesday, 103 hospitals that Leapfrog had given a “C” or lower in its first round of ratings in June got an “A” in the updated Hospital Safety Score, based on more recent data and a slightly tweaked

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Greater Email Privacy Won’t Hinder Law Enforcement

A Senate bill to protect the privacy of electronic communications won’t keep federal agents from combing through your inbox if they believe a crime has been committed, legal experts say. Federal and state authorities still will have a robust set of tools to track down lawbreakers even as these officials oppose changes supported by a […]

Associated Press
By Associated Press
A woman uses her smartphone in central London, Wednesday, Nov. 14, 2012. UK Lawyers say the mounting tally of those arrested and convicted of making offensive comments through social media, shows the problems of a legal system trying to regulate 21st-century communications with 20th century laws. Civil libertarians say it is a threat to free speech in an age when the internet gives everyone the power to be heard around the world. (AP Photo/Sang Tan)

A Senate bill to protect the privacy of electronic communications won't keep federal agents from combing through your inbox if they believe a crime has been committed, legal experts say. Federal and state authorities still will have a robust set of tools to track down lawbreakers even as these officials oppose changes supported by a broad coalition

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Recommendations By Psychiatrists To Ease Manning’s Confinement Ignored

An Army private accused of sending reams of classified U.S. documents to the secret-spilling website WikiLeaks was kept in tight pretrial confinement partly because another prisoner had recently committed suicide, the former security chief at the Quantico, Va., Marine Corps base testified Wednesday. Marine Col. Robert Oltman appeared as a witness on the second day […]

Associated Press
By Associated Press
Army Pfc. Bradley Manning, center, steps out of a security vehicle as he is escorted into a courthouse in Fort Meade, Md., Wednesday, Nov. 28, 2012, for a pretrial hearing. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

An Army private accused of sending reams of classified U.S. documents to the secret-spilling website WikiLeaks was kept in tight pretrial confinement partly because another prisoner had recently committed suicide, the former security chief at the Quantico, Va., Marine Corps base testified Wednesday. Marine Col. Robert Oltman appeared as a

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Study: US Jails Could Handle Guantanamo Detainees

The controversial detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, could be closed and the 166 detainees being held there could be absorbed safely by U.S. prisons, a government report says. Many of the detainees are accused of plotting terrorist acts against the United States. “This report demonstrates that if the political will exists, we could finally […]

Associated Press
By Associated Press
In this Dec. 4, 2006 file photo, reviewed by a U.S. Department of Defense official, a detainee shields his face as he peers out through the so-called "bean hole" which is used to pass food and other items into detainee cells, in Camp Delta detention facility at the Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base in Cuba. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, File)

The controversial detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, could be closed and the 166 detainees being held there could be absorbed safely by U.S. prisons, a government report says. Many of the detainees are accused of plotting terrorist acts against the United States. "This report demonstrates that if the political will exists, we could

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Sex And The Media: Is The ‘Right To The Story’ More Important Than Personal Liberty?

(MintPress) – A French court ruled Wednesday that a ruling on whether former International Monetary Fund head Dominique Strauss-Kahn will stand trial for pimping will be delayed until Dec. 19, as reported by the BBC. The sole case remaining against Strauss-Kahn — who was scandalized after the accused rape of a hotel maid in May 2011 […]

Frederick Reese
By Frederick Reese
French actor Eric Debrosse playing the role of former International Monetary Fund leader, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, left, and actress Jelle Saminnadin as Nafissatou Diallo, the hotel housekeeper who accused Dominique Strauss-Kahn of sexually assaulting her, pose during a photo opportunity as they act in a play "Suite 2806" in a Paris theater, Thursday, Nov. 15, 2012. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)

(MintPress) – A French court ruled Wednesday that a ruling on whether former International Monetary Fund head Dominique Strauss-Kahn will stand trial for pimping will be delayed until Dec. 19, as reported by the BBC. The sole case remaining against Strauss-Kahn — who was scandalized after the accused rape of a hotel maid in May 2011 in New York and

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Tortured Logic: What A Nation Loses When It Tortures And Doesn’t Prosecute Those Who Do

While the nation was transfixed on the daily horse race of the presidential campaign; while we were distracted by the endless rainbow-colored graphs, charts and polls, a curious thing happened. On Thursday, Aug. 30, the Justice Department (after a three-year probe) announced it would not prosecute anyone involved in the killing and torturing of prisoners in […]

Edward Rhymes
By Edward Rhymes
Protestors demonstrate the use of water boarding to volunteer Maboud Ebrahim Zadeh, Monday, Nov. 5, 2007, in front of the Justice Department in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

While the nation was transfixed on the daily horse race of the presidential campaign; while we were distracted by the endless rainbow-colored graphs, charts and polls, a curious thing happened. On Thursday, Aug. 30, the Justice Department (after a three-year probe) announced it would not prosecute anyone involved in the killing and torturing of

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