TODAY’S TOP SCOOPS
LEAD STORY: How the United
States is able to torture political prisoners
Inquiry Into Police Conduct Recieves New Mandate
…
Meanwhile Police Probe Inappropriate Email Usage
Families Commission Stoush Warms Up Over Golden
Handshake
Operation Painter: Police Profile Susan
Sutherland
MORE NEW ZEALAND HEADLINES:
Yet Another People's Revolution In Ecuador
MORE
INTERNATIONAL HEADLINES:
SCOOP COLUMNS:
Scoop Report: Enroute To Gallipoli
Jason Leopold:
Alaskan Oil Drilling Threatens Disaster
Bill
Berkowitz Is Not A Fan Of Benedict XVI
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COMMENTARY:
OTHER NEWS (Just Politics)
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TODAY’S TOP SCOOPS
------------LEAD
STORY:
How the United States is able to torture
political prisoners
[1]
Paul Buchanan examines the revelations about torture of
political prisoners held in US prisons in Afghanistan,
Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, Iraq and explains how the lower fifty
have sparked debate about what is permissible in grey area,
irregular conflicts such as the fight against Islamicist
terrorism. See... Buchanan:
The Symmetry Between Torture & Terror [2]
MORE:
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0504/S00197.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0504/S00197.htm
[3]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0504/S00297.htm
[4]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0504/S00298.htm
Inquiry Into Police Conduct Recieves New Mandate
- The Commission of Inquiry into Police Conduct’s mandate
has been altered so that it can complete its work without
prejudicing any criminal prosecutions and can have regard to
a separate examination of police culture led by the Police
Commissioner. See... Commission
of Inquiry into Police Conduct [1]
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[1]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0504/S00466.htm
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[4]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0504/S00468.htm
…
Meanwhile Police Probe Inappropriate Email Usage
- Police are conducting an internal investigation following the discovery of inappropriate images during an audit of their email system. See... Police investigation on staff emails [1] & Wellington Police District staff in e-mail inquiry [2]
[1]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0504/S00261.htm
[2]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0504/S00262.htm
Families
Commission Stoush Warms Up Over Golden Handshake
- National Party Families spokeswoman Judith Collins believes Steve Maharey has resorted to personal insults because he knows how much New Zealanders hate Labour’s hypocrisy on secret golden handshakes. See... Smarmy Steve Maharey loses the plot [1] EARLIER:
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0504/S00457.htm
[2]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0504/S00454.htm
[3]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0504/S00448.htm
Operation
Painter: Police Profile Susan Sutherland
- Police
continue to develop a profile of murder victim Susan
Sutherland, with the assistance of her family and
associates. See... Operation
Painter - profile developed [1]
EARLIER:
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK0504/S00151.htm
[2]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK0504/S00152.htm
[3]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK0504/S00153.htm
MORE
NEW ZEALAND HEADLINES:
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[2]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0504/S00258.htm
[3]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0504/S00257.htm
[4]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0504/S00255.htm
Yet
Another People's Revolution In Ecuador
[1] As power shifts in Ecuador, Annan urges respect for rule of law 20 April 2005 – United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today urged respect for the rule of law in Ecuador after Vice-President Alfredo Palacio assumed the functions of the presidency. See... Annan urges respect for rule of law in Ecuador [2] MORE: State Dept. - Maisto: Ecuadorian Political Situation [3]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0504/S00328.htm
[2]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0504/S00328.htm
[3]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0504/S00323.htm
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[11]
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SCOOP
COLUMNS:
Scoop Report: Enroute To
Gallipoli
- Scoop Co-Editor Selwyn Manning has sent in the following snapshots from Cairns of the New Zealand Air Force Boeing 757 currently en-route for Gallipoli Turkey to attend ANZAC day commemorations. See... Scoop Images: Snapshots From The Gallipoli Voyage [1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0504/S00209.htm
Jason Leopold: Alaskan Oil Drilling Threatens
Disaster
- It's true that thousands of caribou and other types of wildlife will be displaced if Washington D.C. lawmakers pass a measure to allow drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. See... Opening ANWR to Dev. Could Lead To Disaster [1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0504/S00206.htm
Bill Berkowitz Is Not A Fan Of Benedict XVI
- If Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger's involvement with the Hitler Youth and his stonewalling of the pedophile priests' scandal aren't enough to disqualify him from becoming pope, what would? See... Pope Benedict XVI's Questionable Qualifications [1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0504/S00205.htm
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OTHER NEWS (JUST POLITICS)
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CSI
Type Success As Boffins Help Catch Crooks -
The 50,000th DNA profile to be submitted for the DNA Profile Databank is a milestone in the use of science to fight crime in New Zealand, Research, Science and Technology Minister Steve Maharey and Police Minister George Hawkins said today. See... 50,000th DNA profile a crime fighting milestone [1]
[1] -
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0504/S00459.htm
Right To Give Kids ‘Clip Round The Ear’ In Grave Danger
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New Zealand First family affairs spokesperson Barbara Stewart is concerned that the Law Society may have undue influence over smacking laws in our country. See... Law Society Hijacks Smacking Debate [1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0504/S00451.htm
NZ’s Rep At UN Goes Into Battle For ‘Differently Abled’
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- New Zealand's Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Don MacKay, is to chair the committee drafting a new convention covering the rights of people with disabilities, Foreign Minister Phil Goff and Minister for Disability Issues Ruth Dyson announced. See…New Zealander to chair UN disabilities committee [1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0504/S00460.htm
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