Jim Crogan

Saddam Hussein’s regime was crushed by the combined military might of American and British forces in a lightning-quick, three-week war. But there’s still more work to be done, U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld told reporters at the Pentagon this month. "We still need to find and secure Iraq’s weapons-of-mass-destruction......

CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION (Atlanta, Georgia) 1984 to 1993 — The CDC shipped a number of "viruses, retroviruses, bacteria and fungi" to Iraq from "October 1, 1984 thru October 13, 1993," stated then-CDC director David Satcher in a 1995 letter to the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and......

NCR CORPORATION (Dayton, Ohio) Date uncertain — Supplied $1,207,036 worth of computers, peripherals and spare parts to Iraq’s State Establishment for Heavy Engineering Equipment (SEHEE), a front for Iraq’s nuclear-weapons/Big Gun (giant cannon) program. Deal was financed with a letter of credit from BNL (an Italian bank). A company spokesperson......

Iraq would never have developed its chemical-, biological- and nuclear-weapons program — or even its conventional missiles — without technology and material support supplied by a phalanx of American and international corporations. It also helped mightily that officials in the first Bush presidency – many of whom now work for......

Photo by C.R. Stecyk As U.S. and British fighter jets and bombers knife through Iraqi airspace to pound targets in and around Baghdad, attacking pilots will challenge an air-defense system updated with fiber-optic equipment installed by a Chinese corporation and supported by American high-end technology. At every turn of the......

Detective Robert Bub said he was simply confused last week when he took the stand in the Robert Blake case. Bub testified about what he insisted was his one and only interview with a waitress who served Blake and his wife, Bonnie Lee Bakley, on their final night at Vitello's......

The arrests last week of hundreds of people from Muslim countries is the harshest evidence yet of how U.S. immigration policies have clashed with civil liberties since 911. And, ironically, one of the best examples of a more open immigration process -- possibly too open, says a former State Department......

Make no mistake about it. Mayor Jim Hahn chose to hold Bill Bratton’s coming-out party last week at the North Hollywood Division station to send a shot across the bow of Valley secessionists. Hahn‘s message: He was recommitting his administration to community-based policing, and the San Fernando Valley was his......

FBI agent Robert Wright has a compelling story to tell: his account of how the FBI allegedly shut down a criminal investigation into the operation of terror-training camps in Chicago and Kansas City, years before the 911 attacks. But so far, he can‘t tell the public what he says happened......

When FBI counsel Colleen Rowley dropped her bombshell, a now-famous letter to the director, detailing how bureau higher-ups thwarted attempts to investigate accused 20th hijacker, Zacarias Moussaoui, before the September 11 attacks, she set off a firestorm. The scorching produced a mea culpa of sorts in June from FBI Director......