This story from McClatchy News (02/13/09) lays it all out:

Workers have been sacrificing for years. Average worker paychecks are worth less now than in 1973, but CEOs and other rich Americans not only make much more, they pay less in taxes.

Average full-time workers made $41,198 in 1973 and $37,606 in 2008, adjusted for inflation.

CEOs made 45 times as much as workers in 1973 and more than 300 times as much as workers now. The top tax rate was 70 percent in 1973 and just 35 percent now; taxpayers pay the top rate on the portion of taxable income that falls within the highest bracket and pay lower rates on income below that. The top rate for capital gains on the sale of stock and other assets was 36.5 percent in 1973 and 15 percent now.

Mohamed claims he confessed to being a terrorist only after he was brutally abused and tortured, and that both American and British intelligence officers were at least complicit in the torture.

Lt. Col. Bradley says there is evidence to support his claims of torture and that it is in 42 classified documents held by the British government.

Mohamed's lawyers and British media have sued in the British High Court to make those documents public.

The British - and American - governments are fighting that on national security grounds. As the British Foreign Secretary David Miliband told Parliament that Britian's intelligence relationship with the United States is vital to the security of the United Kingdom.

But apparently all that stuff about the intelligence relationship being affected?  Was a lie:

Miliband pointed to a letter received from the U.S. State Department, authored by The Legal Advisor, John Bellinger III, on Aug. 21, 2008, to bolster his argument. The letter said, "...the public disclosure of these documents or of the information contained therein is likely to result in serious damage to U.S. national security and could harm existing intelligence information arrangements between our two governments". "

That last sentence was interpreted as a threat by the British media and by the British High Court, which ruled that Mohamed's lawyers, with security clearances, could have access to the documents, but that they must not be made public. The court harshly criticized the American government for what it characterized as U.S. interference in British affairs.

But a former Bush administration official with specific knowledge of the case, who requested anonymity, has told CBS News the letter was written at the request of the British government and that both the U.S. and British government wanted to ensure the documents remained secret. The British Foreign Office declined to comment on the record. [emphasis supplied]

The stated reason that the UK judges declined to publish the information about Mohamed's treatment was that "it was not in the public interest to do this due to the potential impact on UK national security of US stopping intelligence sharing" (quote from the BBC)

Not that there was something in the documents about Mohamed's treatment that would affect national security - but rather, based on threats - threats that were apparently manufactured by the US & UK governments.

SOMEBODY should get in trouble for this.

And we definitely should see these documents.  I posted this at my blog as well.

Word has it that President Obama intends to appoint a task force the week after next which will be charged with "reforming" Social Security. According to inside gossip, the task force will be led entirely by economists who were not able to see the $8 trillion housing bubble, the collapse of which is giving the country its sharpest downturn since the Great Depression.

But Sirota is uber confident that it won't happen because:

I just don't believe that Obama will go through with it. I'm saying that not because I'm naive and think the president is just too good or moral a guy to propose retirement benefit cuts during a recession, but because I think the president is just too smart a politician...

i just bought a 1tb drive from newegg, reformatted it to NTFS (it came as FAT32, don't ask me why.), and proceeded to backup my HD. using a USB 2.0 connection (it also has eSATA, assuming i can find a long enough eSATA-to-SATA cord), what had taken 4.5hrs previously, took roughly 30 minutes.

it went so fast, i couldn't follow it with the naked eye, so i dressed one!