[ The New York Times asks: Why did Attorney General John Ashcroft pick an executive of Management and Training [riddled with prisoner abuse and negligence accusations], Lane McCotter, to lead a mission to Iraq to restore its prisons only a month after the report was released in the spring of 2003, charging unconstitutional practices in the jail?…. It was Mr. McCotter, by his own account in Corrections.com, an industry online magazine, who selected Abu Ghraib to be the main American prison in Iraq and then directed its reconstruction after the major fighting ended. But DemocracyNow!’s got the best coverage. –BL ]June […]
Daily Archives: June 6, 2004
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[ The Bush EPA appears about ready to close a deal which would allow industry to gather data on its own harmfulness, again: this time, the deal is with the largest animal processors, who “generate about 575 billion pounds of animal manure a year,” “[t]oxic pollutants [which] have been linked to a wide range of respiratory problems, especially in children.” The deal will likely (1) increase the length of time before new standards go into effect, (2) place “a moratorium on doing anything for communities where these operations are,” and in the meantime, (3) shield these companies “from prosecution for […]