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Rumsfeld Iraq 'torture' suit given go-ahead
A US judge has ruled that a former American military contractor who claims he was tortured in Iraq can sue former Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.
The man's lawyers say he was abducted by the US military and abused at a US military detention centre near Baghdad.
The government says he was suspected of helping pass information to the enemy, although he was never charged.
It is the second time that a federal judge has allowed a US citizen to sue Mr Rumsfeld over torture claims.
The man who brought the suit approved by US District Judge James Gwin is an army veteran in his 50s.
He was released from Camp Cropper detention centre in Iraq in 2006.
In 2008, he filed a suit at the US District Court in Washington claiming that Mr Rumsfeld had personally approved interrogation techniques involving torture on a case-by-case basis, the Associated Press news agency reports.
Note that I don't see anything about this story on Google News, Fox News or CNN. However Fox had a Casey Anthony sighting in Ohio, so at least the important stuff is being covered.
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Must be recall vote time in Wisconsin! For some reason, Scott Walker felt that this was a REALLY good time to finally extend unemployment benefits to the unemployed in FitzWalkerstan.
Extended jobless benefits could start Friday
Wisconsin's newly-extended unemployment benefits will start being paid as early as Friday.
Governor Scott Walker signed the bill Wednesday that grants 13 more weeks of jobless benefits for up to 40,000 Wisconsinites who've used up their previous allotment of 73 weeks.
Workforce Development Secretary Scott Baumbach says retroactive extended benefits could start being processed Friday - and all of the checks will be in the mail by as early as Wednesday.
In the meantime, Baumbach says the current processing of jobless benefits for 127,000 other Wisconsinites will not be interrupted.
In signing the extended benefits, Walker said the economy is improving but lots of people still need help. The Republican governor says there's a long way to go to provide jobs for everyone who wants to work.
Lawmakers voted earlier this week to free up $89 million in federal stimulus money for the extra benefits. They got into a political spat over a one-week waiting period for the newly-unemployed to receive benefits once they apply.
Un-fucking-real
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Could be an interesting drive to work on Monday morning.
EMILY!!!!
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