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...latest salvo in Moulitsas? war on the right is Crashing the Gate: Netroots, Grassroots, and the Rise of People-Powered Politics,(www.crashingthegate.com) a primer co-written with Jerome Armstrong on wresting control of the Democratic party away from consultants and D.C. power brokers, a group that Moulitsas refers to as "that clubby elite club." Many of Moulitsas? colleagues in the blog world wonder if Moulitsas isn?t a member of that club himself. He claims to have used the site to funnel over $1 million to Democratic candidates across the country and is enough of a power broker to have...
Some of the credit for Kabila's "soft landing" in Kinshasa may be owed to the persistent intervention of President Nelson Mandela of South Africa, who together with Richardson spent weeks trying to broker a deal that would avoid major bloodshed. It was partly at Mandela's urging that Mobutu relinquished his dictatorship. But early last week the South African leader's effort appeared to have collapsed, after Kabila failed to appear for a meeting with Mandela and Mobutu aboard a South African naval vessel docked off the port of Pointe Noire. Mandela, who had been host aboard the same...
...Information brokers insist they provide a valuable service to creditors, attorneys and private investigators "to catch bad people" - among them stalkers, fugitives from the law and deadbeat dads. Although data acquired through pretexting is not admissible in court, such information can be useful as an investigative shortcut, without having to wait for a warrant or subpoena. "Fifty years from now you?re going to need a subpoena to talk to your neighbor," says one frustrated data broker, Noah Weider, president of IEI, which runs BestPeopleSearch.com...
...because evidence is not used at trial doesn?t mean it has no effect on the case or that there?s no harm," says Sherwin Siy, staff counsel at the Electronic Privacy Information Center. Texas-based PDJ Investigations, which runs several online information-gathering sites, along with another data broker who wished to remain anonymous, told TIME that they willingly give information to the police, often for free, if it is requested. Many websites in fact advertise helping law enforcement...
...most of PDJ's other customers) ask simply for the name and address attached to a specific phone number, not for complete call records. Yet Douglas, the former researcher for the Congressional committee, points out that even that information most likely is obtained through pretexting. The anonymous data broker confirmed for TIME that pretexting is the most common way to get name and address information for phone numbers. Jarrod Agen, a spokesman for the Department of Homeland Security, said the agency has "no records of contracts" with PDJ. Though the agency does work with "some contractors that do buy information...