ARTICLE: Spy Networks to be Given Immunity

New York Republican Peter King has introduced a bill that would protect the army of citizen spies Homeland Security hopes to recruit under Janet Napolitano’s “See Something, Say Something” snoop campaign from lawsuits brought by innocent people wrongly accused of being terrorists or extremists.

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REPORT: Panel Spreads Financial Crisis Blame

A group tasked with investigating the financial crisis for Congress has reportedly heaps blame on former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, his predecessor Ben Bernanke and Wall Street executives in a report to be released on Thursday.

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ARTICLE: Wall Street Partying in Davos as Crisis Angst Fades

Banks will be spending on parties. JPMorgan upgraded its cocktail reception to the Kirchner Museum from last year’s event at the Tonic Piano Bar at Hotel Europe Davos. Bank of America’s Moynihan and the firm’s other top executives will meet clients for drinks on Jan. 27 at the Steigenberger Grandhotel Belvedere -- the same night Morgan Stanley’s Mack is hosting a private dinner at restaurant Gasthaus in den Islen. Standard Chartered Plc and Deutsche Bank AG are both hosting events at the Belvedere the following night.

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ARTICLE: F.A.A. Official Scrapped Tape of 9/11 Controllers' Statements

At least six air traffic controllers who dealt with two of the hijacked airliners on Sept. 11, 2001, made a tape recording that same day describing the events, but the tape was destroyed by a supervisor without anyone making a transcript or even listening to it, the Transportation Department said in a report today.  The taping began before noon on Sept. 11 at the New York Air Route Traffic Control Center, in Ronkonkoma, on Long Island, where about 16 people met in a basement conference room known as "the Bat Cave" and passed around a microphone, each recalling his or her version of the events a few hours earlier.


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ARTICLE: 9/11 "black box" cover-up at Ground Zero?

“The CVRs and FDRs from American 11 and United 175” - the two planes that hit the Trade Center - “were not found.”  And officials for the FBI - which oversaw the cleanup at Ground Zero - and the New York City Fire Department repeated this week that the devices were never recovered.  The “black boxes” - actually orange - could have provided valuable new information about the worst terror attack to ever take place on American soil.  “It's extremely rare that we don't get the recorders back. I can't recall another domestic case in which we did not recover the recorders,” Ted Lopatkiewicz, spokesman for the National Transportation Safety Board, told CBS News in 2002. However, officials said little of the jets was recovered.


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ARTICLE: U.S. says U.N. expert should be fired for Sept 11 remarks

U.S. academic Richard Falk wrote in a blog this month that there had been an "apparent cover-up" by U.S. authorities over the September 11, 2001 attacks, in which hijackers flew airliners into the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon near Washington, killing more than 3,000 people.


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ARTICLE: Billionaire Movers

Billionaires haven’t been sitting still in the start of this new decade. Eric Schmidt, who recently stepped aside as Google’s CEO to become chairman, received a $100 billion equity award as he filed to sell a small portion of his large stake in Google.


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