Bill JakobIn the course of reporting "Hornswoggled," this week's feature story about the con man Bill Jakob, RFT obtained a transcription of a sworn deposition that Jakob gave earlier this year as part of a $7.25 million civil rights lawsuit pending in U.S. District Court.Federal investigators warned RFT that everything Bill Jakob says should be taken with a shovel of salt. Rather than quote from the transcript in the story, we thought it a propos to provide the uncut deposition here, for your e
St. Louis-based Veterans for Peace is circulating a letter it plans to to send President Barack Obama demanding that the White House release photos of abusive treatment of detainees at the hands of U.S. troops. Obama had supported the release of the pictures to the public, but changed his mind in May, saying that he would try to block the court-ordered release of the photos. Obama's reversal came after U.S. commanders feared that the pictures depicting abusive treatment of detainees would cause
Adam Dylan Leon​Remember the case of Adam Dylan Leon? Back in April, the 31-year-old stole a Cessna from his flight school in Thunder Bay, Ontario, and piloted the aircraft into the United States airspace. Leon's flight scared the bejesus out of the Department of Defense, which tracked the plane with fighter jets fearing that it might be a terrorist plot. With officials unable to make radio contact with the Cessna, Leon was able to pilot the plane all the way to Ellsinore, Missouri. That's whe
