Day February 18, 2006

An apt description indeed

Google called the Bush administration’s request for data on Web searches as “so uninformed as to be nonsensical” in papers filed in San Jose federal court Friday, arguing that turning over the information would expose its trade secrets and violate…

Torturing for freedom

New calls for UK inquiry into secret CIA flights. Ministers are facing fresh pressure for an independent inquiry into claims that Britain has been involved in secret CIA torture flights. Tony Baldry, the chairman of the Commons International Development Committee,…

Aria preparations continue

“The Justice Department and defense lawyers asked a federal judge Friday to delay the March sentencing of lobbyist Jack Abramoff in a Florida fraud case to allow him more time to cooperate in a broader government corruption investigation.”

Out of control

10 killed in Libya cartoon riot Gasoline on the fire An Italian minister rejected accusations on Saturday that he was to blame for deadly clashes in Libya over cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad which he had made into T-shirts and…