Stranger than fiction.

Next week Kevin A. Whitecliff will be the first of six Branch Davidians to be released in the next two months after serving approximately 12 years in prison. The six, along with a seventh to be released next year, were tried in 1994 and found guilty of various charges including voluntary manslaughter and weapons charges stemming from the initial confrontation and shoot-out on February 28th, 1993 at the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas.

The family of Jack Anderson, a columnist known for his career of breaking huge scandals and who died in December, has rejected an FBI request to review Andersons compilation of source documents. The FBI has told Andersons widow they want to review all documents and remove anything considered secret or classified.

In an interesting confession, John Humphreys, the creator of the late 80s talking head Max Headroom, claims that he was the force behind the footage of the alien corpse dissected in the Alien Autopsy video. John Humphreys has worked on numerous programs (like Dr. Who and the recent remake of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory), and claims the footage was taken not in 1947 Roswell, but in a flat in Camden in 1995.

Following on the heals of the shocking revelation that ATandT has been collaborating to channel their Internet traffic through the NSA is another alarming government-sponsored privacy breach. Broward county is publising residents social security numbers, drivers license numbers, photos, and even bank records on the countys official website. And worst of all, theyre doing it on purpose.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation has filed a brief with specific claims that ATandT has routed the Internet traffic of their customers directly to the National Security Agency. ATandT, the brief claims, has given the government direct access to the Internet communications of millions of ordinary Americans.

JP Morgan and Bank of New York have actually switched their assets, in essence trading the bussinesses they conduct. By doing so they have actually increased each others assets and increased their customer base.

Lawyers for Scooter Libby filed a briefing today claiming that VP Cheney told his former cheif of staff that Bush Okayed the plan to leak information about former Ambassador Joe Wilsons wife, Valerie Plame in order to discredit him.

Former head of the Star Wars defense program under Ford and Carter, Dr. Robert M. Bowman has said in a public interview that in his opinion, that if Osama Bin Laden and Al Qeada were responsible for 9/11 then the government stood down and let it happen. Or, elements within the government commissioned the attack and that the most likely suspect is VP Dick Cheney. He also goes on to say that America is in danger of slipping into a dictatorship and that the patriot act has done more to destroy our rights than our enemies.