May 22, 2012 | No Comments DOD Officials Disclosed to Filmmakers Identity of SEAL Team Six Operator and Commander; Ask Film Director to Withhold Operator’s Name, ‘because he shouldn’t be talking out of school.’ (Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch, the organization that investigates and fights government corruption, announced today that it has obtained records from the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) regarding meetings and communications between government agencies and Kathryn Bigelow, Academy Award-winning director of The Hurt Locker, and screenwriter Mark Boal. According to the records, the Obama Defense Department granted Bigelow and Boal access to a “planner, Operator and Commander of SEAL Team Six,” which was responsible for the capture and killing of Osama bin Laden, to assist ... Continue reading →

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The city’s urban jungle got even wilder when two teenage punks became rooftop snipers and targeted a Brooklyn neighborhood over the weekend — with blow darts, authorities said yesterday.Three people were wounded by the 15-year-old boys’ bizarre weapon of choice in the frightening, random attacks, police and witnesses said.“I felt like someone was hunting,” said a stunned Arkadiy Shklyaver, 52, who was hit in the stomach by one of the 3-inch, green-tipped darts allegedly shot by the young suspects on a Bensonhurst street corner at around 7:15 p.m. Sunday. Photos by Stephen Yang OUCH!: Georgiy Ostrozhnyuk yesterday shows where one of the blow darts fired from a Brooklyn rooftop struck him in the abdomen. Two other men were hit Sunday, and cops still had the ... Continue reading →

By Emily Flitter NEW YORK | Mon May 21, 2012 2:43pm EDT NEW YORK (Reuters) - China can now bypass Wall Street when buying U.S. government debt and go straight to the U.S. Treasury, in what is the Treasury's first-ever direct relationship with a foreign government, according to documents viewed by Reuters. The relationship means the People's Bank of China buys U.S. debt using a different method than any other central bank in the world.The other central banks, including the Bank of Japan, which has a large appetite for Treasuries, place orders for U.S. debt with major Wall Street banks designated by the government as primary dealers. Those dealers then bid on their behalf at Treasury auctions.China, which holds $1.17 trillion in U.S. Treasuries, still ... Continue reading →