Check for new business checks comes up a few short
Free Press Staff
MARATHON ?? Sheriff's detectives arrested 48-year old Morgan J. Pyles on charges of burglary, grand theft and possession of altered checks on Friday. ?
WASHINGTON - Long-secret documents released Tuesday provide new details about how the CIA illegally spied on Americans decades ago, including trying to bug a Las Vegas hotel room for evidence of infidelity and tracking down an expert lock picker for a Watergate conspirator.
Known inside the agency as the "family jewels," the 693 pages of documents released Tuesday catalog domestic wiretapping operations, failed assassination plots, mind-control experiments and spying on journalists from the early years of the CIA.
Internal memorandums detail CIA contacts with E. Howard Hunt, the Watergate conspirator, and James McCord, a retired operative who was one of the Watergate burglars. One has the heading "Hunt Requests a Lockpicker" and reveals that in spring 1972, a CIA official helped Hunt, the mastermind of the Watergate break-in, track someone "accomplished in picking locks."
The Police is set to make a stop in South Florida in their world tour. There is also talk they may perform in Cuba, and that has some local groups taking action, hoping the group also encourages action in the island.
Henry Gomez and Alberto de la Cruz are both huge fans of Sting and the Police. They are also both bloggers who advocate democracy in Cuba, and when they heard their favorite band might be performing in Havana, they had an idea.
"We really want to appeal to Sting, The Police and their better angels to do what's right," said Gomez, of Bloggers United for Cuban Liberty.
More from Michael Moore — on accuracy in his films.
Moore: Do you think the NRA would have loved to sue me?
Q: Not at all, especially after that Charlton Heston interview.
What's most striking about "Sicko" is how composed, even serene it is compared with Michael Moore's previous acts of cinematic insurgency. The puckish ferocity and combative mischief that marked previous Moore polemics, from 1989's "Roger and Me" to 2004's "Fahrenheit 9/11," is on relatively low boil in this one - at least until the climax where he takes a bunch of chronically ill Americans on a boat to Cuba for some accessible pharmaceuticals and treatment. You might have heard that he's in a little hot water for that.
But overall, the net effect of "Sicko's" penetrating and devastating inquiry into the way America takes care of its ill and dying is to transfer the anger to the audience rather than have Moore's own outrage spread all over his film. Which makes this movie, by a considerable distance, the writer-director's most effective provocation yet.
People predisposed to have their backs up whenever they hear Moore's voice won't want to see or hear what he has to say about insurance companies that deny benefits and even life-saving surgical procedures to their clients.
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