Author: Dan Christensen
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9/11 family members demand the FBI ‘come clean’ about Sarasota Saudis
By Dan Christensen and Anthony Summers
BrowardBulldog.org
A group representing 6,600 survivors and relatives of those killed and injured in the 9/11 attacks called on the FBI Thursday to “come clean” about its investigation of Saudis in Florida who may have aided the terrorist hijackers. -
Bob Graham: FBI hindered Congress’s 9/11 inquiry, withheld reports about Sarasota Saudis
By Dan Christensen and Anthony Summers
BrowardBulldog.org
Former U.S. Senator Bob Graham has accused the FBI in court papers of having impeded Congress’s Joint Inquiry into 9/11 by withholding information about a Florida connection to the al-Qaeda attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people. -
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Now, you can’t ban guns at the public pool
By Lois Beckett
ProPublica
If you feel unsafe at a public pool in Charleston, W.Va., you may soon have the right to lie there on a towel with a handgun at your side. For 20 years, Charleston has been an island of modest gun restrictions in a very pro-gun rights state. But its gun laws are now likely to be rolled back… -
Mystery of Sarasota Saudis deepens as Justice moves to end FOI lawsuit citing national security
By Dan Christensen and Anthony Summers
BrowardBulldog.org
A senior FBI official has told a Fort Lauderdale federal judge that disclosure of certain classified information about Saudis who hurriedly left their Sarasota area home shortly before 9/11 “would reveal current specific targets of the FBI’s national security investigations.” -
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Tobacco giant Reynolds American funded conservative nonprofits
By Dave Levinthal
Center for Public Integrity
Tobacco giant Reynolds American Inc. last year helped fund several of the nation’s most politically active — and secretive — nonprofit organizations, according to a company document reviewed by the Center for Public Integrity. -
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As Factory Farms spread, government efforts to curb threat from livestock waste bog down
By Bridget Huber
Fair Warning
As factory farms take over more and more of the nation’s livestock production, a major environmental threat has emerged: Pollution from the waste produced by the immense crush of animals.
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