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Secret Fast and Furious Tapes Spring a Watergate-Sized Leak

Of the four excerpts released to the public, the first one best demonstrates the angst of those involved in the operation and the necessity for everyone, including Holder, to be sure their stories matched up...

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - When the Watergate break-ins took place in 1972, President Richard Nixon knew nothing about them.

Zyprexa $13 Pill Loses Patent Exclusivity and Goes Generic

Eli Lilly still stalling Zyprexa claims

(Bangor, Maine) - I am a living example of Zyprexa gone/done wrong was given it 1996-2000 off-label for PTSD got sudden high blood sugar A1C 14.7 in January 2000.The stuff was worthless for my condition PTSD and cost me thousands in co-pays gave me diabetes.

`Don`t blind side me`

My comment to the investigative journalist writing for Fortune Magazine about Purdue Pharma -- and the deception I encountered. Is Purdue Pharma now manipulating journalists to further their criminal marketing of OxyContin?

(MYRTLE BEACH, S.C.) - Yesterday I received a telephone call from Katherine Eban (also writes under Katherine Eban Finkelstein), an award-winning investigative reporter, who writes for Fortune Magazine -- Eban is also a Rhodes Scholar and author of a book "Dangerous Doses." 

She purportedly wanted to interview me about an expose on Purdue Pharma, maker of OxyContin which would be written focusing on the company after they pleaded guilty to criminally marketing OxyContin.

Is Purdue Pharma Using Kids as Guinea Pigs?

"It is not truth that matters, but victory." Adolf Hitler

(MYRTLE BEACH, S.C.) - On April 23, 2011 I wrote an article for Salem-News.com on children being used as guinea pigs by Purdue Pharma in clinical trials of OxyContin -- ages 6 to 16. See link below.

I questioned why the FDA and government agencies were allowing these clinical trials to take place in view of the epidemic this country has experienced with death, addiction and abuse because of the lies used in the marketing of OxyContin.

Operation Fast and Furious - The Cover up Continues

Dept. of Justice Inspector General Cynthia Schnedar, may have compromised the investigation.

(OKLAHOMA CITY) - Although I have written only sparingly about the ATF’s misguided attempts to sell and track guns as they went into Mexico, Operation Fast and Furious, I have followed it with some interest.

It is the best example of a sting operation gone bad and as a result, people have died, including one of our own Border Patrol agents. As a direct result of Fast and Furious, Agent Brian Terry was killed with a weapon that was traced back to the operation.

OxyContin Smuggling Arrests - the Stamford Connection

"When a person cannot deceive himself -- the chances are against his being able to deceive other people." Mark Twain

(MYRTLE BEACH, S.C.) - So help answer this Assistant US Attorney Kale and US Attorney Fein:

"What's the difference" between the TSA agents and law enforcement officers accepting cash for illegal sale of OxyContin -- and a high ranking law enforcement officer being on the payroll of convicted felons, responsible for the Tsunami of OxyContin death and addiction throughout the country?

Agent Terry`s Family Denied Crime Victim Status In Gun Walker Case

Also: was Fast & Furious a CIA operation?

(WASHINGTON D.C. Human Events) - Border Patrol agent Brian Terry’s murder at the hands of Mexican criminals carrying at least one weapon from the ATF’s “Operation Fast and Furious” brought that awful program to a screeching halt. The straw purchaser who secured the weapon carried by Terry’s killers, a 23-year-old Phoenix man named Jamie Avila, is now on trial for gun-trafficking offenses.

Agent Terry’s family asked to be granted status as crime victims, so they could talk with prosecutors and speak at Avila’s sentencing. It’s a routine request… but to the surprise of many observers, the U.S. Attorney’s office in Arizona has denied them.

Man and Woman in 20`s Tortured and Murdered for Denouncing Cartels Online

Cartels Target those who Criticize them online; groups say they are not intimidated.

(NUEVO LAREDO, Mexico) - Motorists beginning their day Tuesday in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, were greeted by a horrific site; two young people described as Internet bloggers who expressed their disapproval of cartel activities... were found hanging from a bridge, tortured and murdered, the woman left partly nude.

The location is in the heart of the Mexican community - Voluntad and Trabajo 3. Nuevo Laredo is a city of 400,000 just across the Rio Grande from Laredo, Texas.

Drug Czar Insists Medical Marijuana Leads to More Pot Smoking

Everything we could hope for i happening - marijuana use remains steady and meth use has dropped.

(PORTLAND, Ore.) - Drug Czar “Gateway” Gil Kerlikowske reminds me of “Baghdad Bob”. Do you remember the invasion of Iraq back in 2003 when Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf, the spokesperson known as “Baghdad Bob”, issued such proclamations “I triple guarantee you, there are no American soldiers in Baghdad”

“They are retreating on all fronts. Their military effort is a subject of laughter throughout the world”, even as tanks were entering the city on live TV feed behind him?

Stripped of Liberty for Avenging Drug Dealer`s Sex Crimes Against an 11-Year Old Girl

An update on Former Political Prisoner Ali Khalid Abdullah

(DETROIT, Mich.) - A most unique and distressing story has been under investigation by Civil Rights Advocate William Coleman, a former Oregon Prison Guard who blew the whistle on racism and hate crimes at the Oregon State Penitentiary and barely escaped the ordeal without a prison sentence of his own.