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As communities in Iowa and Illinois consider the possible transformation of the Thomson, Ill., prison into a federal “supermax” facility, Florence, Colo. journalist Bob Wood’s insights about his own community’s supermax facility shed light on the proposal’s potential impacts.

Iowa Democratic Party Chairman Michael Kiernan’s attacks against U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley are simply “insulting Iowans who disagree with the [Obama] administration’s political decision to bring terrorists to the United States,” an aide to the senator told the Iowa Independent Thursday.

U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley’s comparison of civilian trials for terrorists to the murder trial of O.J. Simpson is “false and disrespectful,” Iowa Democratic Party Chairman Michael Kiernan said Thursday.

A spokeswoman for U.S. Rep. Bruce Braley, D-Waterloo, responded Monday to attacks from Iowa Republicans who say transferring Guantanamo detainees to U.S. soil is a “clear threat to national security.”

Following my story yesterday on Iowa’s Intelligence Fusion Center, our sister site, The Colorado Independent, today published the third in a nationwide series of stories focusing on the domestic intelligence network that has quietly emerged in America since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
Erin Rosa takes a look at the Colorado Information Analysis Center [...]

On the third floor of an unnamed building in the shadow of the state Capitol sits the Iowa Intelligence Fusion Center, an organization tasked with helping to stop future acts of terrorism.

My lead story today on the Iowa Intelligence Fusion Center follows Minnesota Independent’s investigation of their fusion center, the Minnesota Joint Analysis Center, published yesterday.
In “You don’t know MN-JAC,” reporter Dan Haugen found that the agency, created in the wake of 9/11 to collect and analyze suspicious activity reports from across Minnesota, is [...]

In a House hearing Thursday on interrogation policies, U.S. Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, suggested that a Democratic congressman should have to personally guard a White House aide after the Massachusetts lawmaker made a comment that King believes “incited” terrorists to violence against Vice President Dick Cheney’s chief of staff.

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Ames, Ia. was the site of a large meet-up for Ron Paul fans as hundreds gathered to hear the congressional Texan and presidential candidate talk. His speech was titled, “Limited Government and the Constitution,” and he delivered it in the Sun Room of the Memorial Union at Iowa State University.

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