One of Portugal's most famous television presenters and a former ambassador were among six men found guilty yesterday of involvement with a paedophile prostitution ring that exploited children from state-run orphanages. The guilty verdicts handed down to TV presenter Carlos Cruz and the five others exposed the truth of more than three decades of rumours about systematic abuse of young boys at the 230-year-old Casa Pia network of orphanages.

RAW STORY | October 1 2006 Rep. John Doolittle (R-CA) knew of and tolerated forced abortions, sex slavery and sweatshop conditions in the Northern Marianas Islands, says his challenger. Retired Lt. Col. Charlie Brown, Democratic candidate for California's 4th District, asserts Doolittle was aware of the abuses while he helped, with the aid of convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff, to fund the islands' government that allegedly exploited its workers. In a debate on KCRA 3 TV News in Sacramento, Brown faced off again

Londýn - Birminghamský arcibiskup dnes protestoval proti nedělnímu investigativnímu pořadu televize BBC, v němž autoři tvrdili, že nynější papež Benedikt ještě jako kardinál prosazoval utajení případů, kdy kněží zneužívali děti. Kardinál Joseph Ratzinger, dnešní papež Benedikt XVI., podle pořadu rozeslal dopis, ve kterém prosazoval, aby církev nijak nespolupracovala při vyšetřování těchto zločinů a aby si ponechala informace, které

Diego Cevallos MEXICO CITY, Sep 13 (IPS) - The complicity in Mexico between child sex rings and the political and business elites "goes beyond what we can even imagine," says activist Lydia Cacho, who faces death threats and was even thrown briefly into prison for revealing those ties in a book. "What we have just seen is only the tip of the iceberg," Cacho told IPS, after the local media aired Tuesday recordings of telephone conversations between two prominent politicians and a hotel owner now in prison, and a weal

The first observation I'll make in light of Goss's shocker is that the cable nets were knocked off their Patrick Kennedy hyper-focus. The second is that the first blush of coverage distinctly ignored the blog buzz about Goss's possible -- and I stress possible-- involvement in the Duke Cunningham prostitute scandal.Here's an April 27th post from TPM Muckraker: "Ken Silverstein reportsat Harper's blog on the spreading Cunningham-Wade-Wilkes prostitute scandal. He says more lawmakers, past and present, are being investigated. Sounds like he thinks H

Foggo under investigation for ties to contractor in bribery caseMinority Leader Nancy Pelosi joined House Speaker Dennis Hastert in criticizing the Department of Justice WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Bush stepped into the Justice Department's constitutional confrontation with Congress on Thursday and ordered that documents seized in an FBI raid on a congressman's office be sealed for 45 days.The president directed that no one involved in the investigation have access to the documents taken last weekend from the office of Rep. William Jefferson, D-Louisi

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Law enforcement officials executed search warrants Friday on the house and office of CIA's outgoing executive director, the FBI said. The agency's third ranking official, Kyle "Dusty" Foggo, has been under investigation by the FBI, IRS, Defense Criminal Investigative Service and the CIA's inspector general, said FBI spokeswoman April Langwell in San Diego.Under a sealed warrant, officials searched Foggo's Virginia home and his office at the CIA's Langley, Virginia, campus, Langwell said. She could provide no other details.Kyle "Dusty" Foggo direct

AUSTIN, Texas (Creators Syndicate) -- Of course I am above sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll. So serious a servant of the public interest am I, I can fogey with the best: On my better days, I make David Broder look like Page Six.I don't care what anyone smoked 20 years ago, I approve of those who boogie 'til they puke, and I don't care who anyone in politics is screwing in private, as long as they're not screwing the public.On other hand, if you expect me to pass up a scandal involving poker, hookers and the Watergate building with crooked defense contractors and

Sarah Baxter, WashingtonALL the ingredients for a spy thriller involving prostitutes, poker, a congressman called Randy and parties at the legendary Watergate complex may lie behind the sudden resignation of Porter Goss as director of the CIA last Friday.The saga has already been named “Hookergate” and the CIA is buzzing with rumours that there is more to Goss’s departure than meets the eye.The timing is certainly curious, coming hard on the heels of the CIA’s confirmation last week that Kyle “Dusty” Foggo, the number three in the nation’s spy centre who was hand-picked by Goss, had at

"What you have to understand, John, is that sometimes there are forces and events too big, too powerful, with so much at stake for other people or institutions, that you cannot do anything about them, no matter how evil or wrong they are and no matter how dedicated or sincere you are or how much evidence you have. This is simply one of the hard facts of life you have to face." - Former CIA director and Cercle member William Colby giving advice to his friend senator John DeCamp, urging him to quit his investigations into the Franklin child abuse affair and to write a book about his experiences (The Franklin Coverup, 2nd edition, foreword).

Feds target escort service in money launder, prostitution probe OCTOBER 9--With the capital already mired in its latest sex scandal, federal agents last week raided the home of a woman they allege has, for the past 13 years, operated a Washington, D.C. escort service that dispatched college-educated prostitutes to the homes and hotel rooms of well-heeled clients. A two-year probe by Internal Revenue Service and Unites States Postal Inspection Service agents has targeted the Pamela Martin & Associates escort service and its owner, Deborah Jeane Palfrey (picture at right). In coordina

Almost a year after Representative Cynthia McKinney was told by Donald Rumsfeld that it was not the policy of the Bush administration to reward companies that engage in human trafficking with government contracts, the scandal continues to sweep up innocent children who are sold into a life of slavery at the behest of Halliburton subsidiaries , Dyncorp and other transnational corporations with close ties to the establishment elite. On March 11th 2005, McKinney grilled Secretary Rumsfeld and General Myers on the Dyncorp scandal. "Mr.

A CIA spokeswoman said Friday that a federal investigation of Kyle “Dusty” Foggo, the CIA’s former number-three official, had “absolutely nothing, zero” to do with Porter’s Goss’s recent announcement to retire. That’s a bit hard to swallow at this point, especially as her emphatic statement came as FBI agents were raiding Foggo’s home and office.Foggo is a long-time associate of Brent Wilkes, the defense contractor who is accused of bribing disgraced former Representative Duke Cunningham and allegedly providing him with prostitutes as well

Major government officials and media about to be caught up in numerous sex scandals.Lou Dobbs says "this government is not working."by Scott Mowry5.8.06The news emanating from our nation's capital continues to grow worse and worse by the week. While an unprecedented number of highly questionable policy decisions, misconducts and outright lies have already emerged from the Bush administration and Congress this year, yet another major scandal is set to rock Washington, DC to its very core.