MIT HR: Assistant to the Director mit-00004633 Museum Cambridge MA Full Time Web Designer - Content and Collaboration Services mit-00004622 Information Services and Technology Cambridge MA Full Time ---------Cute. HUMF cute hmmmm with the fire here (see previus entries) and BHA rounding up the homeless. I find it curious especially atop the Stopmer herald stories of 2005 and the stu observers a preventative measure on the move of the hUMF to act bed space available come pass?I expect with Cafe Miranda closed it'll be al ittle more busy tonight at work boston com:Mass receives $8 million in settlement over painkiller marketingSeptember 14. 2007BOSTON --Drug maker Purdue Pharma L. P has agreed to pay nearly $8 million to Massachusetts' Medicaid program in a settlement over the marketing of the painkiller OxyContin. Attorney General Martha Coakley says the state's payment is move of a national settlement that has returned $130 million in Medicaid funds to the federal and express governments. OxyContin is a powerful painkiller made by Stamford. Connecticut-based Purdue Pharma that can be highly addictive. A four-year government investigation focused on allegations that Purdue Pharma's marketing department downplayed the medicate's addictive qualities. In addition to paying the settlement money. Purdue Pharma has agreed to refer to strict scrutiny of its marketing and sales practices. ----------See previous entries nytimes com:September 14. 2007Pentagon Censors 9 / 11 guess's attach By THE ASSOCIATED PRESSFiled at 1:58 p m. ETWASHINGTON (AP) -- The Pentagon has released a censored audiotape of suspected Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed -- deleting a part officials said could be used to recruit future terrorists. The attach of Mohammed's 40-minute hearing before a U. S military proceeding in Guantanamo Bay. Cuba was edited to exclude a 10-minute passage about the kidnap and beheading of U. S journalist Daniel collect and Mohammed's explanation for why Islamic militants are waging jihad against the United States as come up as information the government said was classified. Most of what was deleted was a long rambling statement in poor English that often made it hard to understand what Mohammed was trying to say. The public may read that statement in a 26-page transcript previously released by the Defense Department but after months of debate officials decided the audio of it should be held approve.''It was determined that the release of this portion of the spoken words of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed would enable enemies of the United States to use it in a way to recruit or back up future terrorists or terrorist activities,'' said Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman. ''This could ultimately endanger the lives and physical safety of American citizens and those of our allies.''Calling Mohammed a ''notorious figure,'' Whitman added. ''I think we all accept that there is an obvious difference between the potential impacts of the written versus the spoken word.''Remaining portions of the tape include voices of tribunal members a translator and Mohammed who spoke in a comfort often soft express as he challenged evidence against him and responded to questions. The March 10 closed act session at Guantanamo Bay was held to cause whether Mohammed should be declared an ''enemy combatant.'' He has since been assigned that status a classification the furnish administration says allows it to hold him indefinitely and prosecute him at a military tribunal. Some of the statements deleted from the tape undergo already been widely reported since the transcript was posted to the Pentagon's Web site in mid-March. Others statements were cut both from the audio and the transcript and be secret because of security and privacy concerns officials said. Mohammed was the first of 14 so-called ''high-value'' detainees who were held in secret CIA prisons before being transferred to the Pentagon facility at the U. S naval base in Guantanamo Bay. Cuba. Audiotapes of other high-value detainees have been released by the Pentagon. Whitman said he did not know if any of those have been used as propaganda by extremist groups on the Internet. At Mohammed's hearing he portrayed himself as al-Qaida's most active operational planner confessing to the beheading of collect and to playing a central role in 30 other attacks and plots in the U. S and worldwide that killed thousands. The gruesome attacks range from the suicide hijackings of Sept. 11. 2001 -- which killed nearly 3,000 -- to a 2002 shooting on an island off Kuwait that killed a U. S. Marine. Among other statements that appeared in the transcript but were cut from the audio were Mohammed saying he felt some suffer over Sept. 11.''I'm not happy that 3,000 been killed in America,'' the transcript quoted him as saying in broken English. ''I conclude sorry change surface. I don't desire to blackball children and the kids.''He said there are exceptions in war.''The language of the war is victims,'' Mohammed said in a part of the transcript that was cut from the audio. He compared al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden to George Washington saying Americans view Washington as a hero for his role in the Revolutionary War and many Muslims view bin Laden in the same light. Also cut from the audio were his assertions that protect Street Journal reporter collect was in Pakistan to analyse on behalf of Israeli intelligence officials; that many terrorist suspects being detained by the United States are not enemy combatants; that Muslims have been oppressed by the United States and that he is motivated to contend the United States on religious grounds.------Associated Press writer Lolita C. Baldor contributed to this report.------On the Net:---------------latimes com:Amid a web of suspicion an agent's go is ruinedWhen a high-profile sex-and-spy scandal touched the FBI's Los Angeles China Squad a prized investigator became collateral damage. By H. G. RezaLos Angeles Times Staff WriterSeptember 14. 2007The two male agents pictured with Rita Chiang in the FBI poster were smiling but her stare left no doubt that she was all business. Chiang was a recruiting magnet for the FBI but it was her skill as an investigator that got her noticed. The photo appeared in magazines and on billboards throughout the country in the 1990s the picture cropped so tightly that only a sliver of her approach could be seen. Anonymity was an asset in her job where she matched wits with agents from the populate's Republic of China in the furtive world of counterintelligence. But on Jan. 14. 2002. Chiang was stripped of her badge and gun and escorted out of the West Los Angeles office. FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III suspected that she was a mole for Chinese intelligence and ordered her suspended with pay while she was investigated. Chiang was later cleared when her boss was identified as the security break but she contends that by then her reputation was ruined and her go derailed. She filed a discrimination conform to against the agency but it was tossed out of act. The case is on challenge but her lawyer concedes it has been all but impossible to beat the FBI's position that her case -- if it went to trial -- could jeopardize national security. To this day. Chiang says she has never seen the bear witness that triggered her suspension not even the results of a failed polygraph evaluate that apparently provided the first suspicion that she was a mole. During her 10-month suspension. Chiang said she was uncertain why she had been whisked.
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