Arizona Authorities Search for Second Man in Jared Lee Loughner Tucson Mass Shooting

Lawyers For 'Unabomber,' White Supremacist To Represent Jared Lee Loughner
The Federal Public Defender's Office on Monday requested that the court appoint Judy Clarke and Mark Fleming to represent Jared Lee Loughner, the suspect allegedly behind the Mass Shooting on Saturday that killed a Federal Judge and gravely injured Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ). Clarke previously represented "Unabomber" Ted Kaczynski and assisted in the case of confessed al Qaeda operative Zacarias Moussaoui. Fleming represented Aryan Brotherhood defendant Travis Dally in a federal capital mu...

Sheriff: Loughner Not Cooperating
NBC News reports: A 22-year-old man charged with trying to assassinate a U.S. congresswoman in a Shooting Spree that left six people dead has remained silent and has not been cooperating with the investigation, according to a sheriff. Jared Loughner, described as a social outcast with wild beliefs steeped in paranoia and deep distrust of government, was due to make his first court appearance Monday at 4 p.m. ET. At 11 a.m. ET, President Obama led the nation in a moment of silence to remember t...

Get your story straight, MEPS.
I'll have more to say about the tragedy in Tuscon that killed a 10 year-old girl, a Federal Judge, several others, and critically wounded U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ-8) over the weekend. But in the mean time I think DoD needs to figure out which story they are going with. This: In one of a handful of anti-religious, anti-government videos on Loughner's YouTube page, he says "every United States Military recruit at MEPS (Military Entrance Processing Station) in Phoenix is rece...

Arizona Massacre Prompts Political 'Cheap Shots'
When Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords collapsed outside the Safeway in Tucson Saturday morning, felled by a hail of bullets that killed six and wounded another 13 innocent people that had come to see her, some were quick to claim that the carnage was the product not merely of the tortured mind and trigger-happy fingers of the alleged shooter, 22-year-old Jared Lee Loughner. Rather, many on the American Left said the horror could be traced to the malign influence of American Conservatives; members...

Liberals Blame Sarah Palin for Tucson Shooting Tragedy
The tragic shooting outside a Tucson strip mall, which left six dead and at least a dozen more wounded, is all because of Sarah Palin, liberals are saying today. So far, police have said they cannot find any motive for the attack, which tookplace during a "Congress on Your Corner" event arranged by Conservative Blue Dog Democrat Gabrielle Giffords, who represents Arizona's 8th Congressional District in the U.S. House. The suspect, Jared Lee Loughner, has allegedly told authorities he planned the...

U.S. cites evidence of assassination plot
TUCSON, Ariz. -- Piece by piece, details of the weekend rampage in Tucson are beginning to emerge: The heartbreaking tales of people slain on a sun-splashed morning, the courage of those who overpowered the gunman and the state of mind of the suspect, a young man who the authorities say had plotted for weeks, and perhaps longer, to assassinate a member of Congress. As the full scope of the tragedy sank in Sunday, it also had rekindled a national conversation, sparked by the outspoken sheriff of...

Police clear "person of interest" in Tucson rampage
PHOENIX | Mon Jan 10, 2011 7:14am EST PHOENIX (Reuters) - Authorities cleared a man they had sought in connection with Saturday's shooting rampage in Tucson in which a U.S. congresswoman was seriously wounded and six people were slain, the FBI said on Sunday. The Pima County Sheriff's Department had said on Saturday that it was seeking to identify a white man wearing Blue Jeans and a dark blue jacket who was at the scene of the shooting. But the FBI said they have since cleared the man. Polic...

Gunman's Grammar Conspiracy Connection
(CANVAS STAFF REPORTS) - A nation is trying to understand the shooting rampage in Tucson, Ariz. that left 14 wounded, including a congresswoman in critical condition, and six others dead, including a Federal Judge, a congressional aide and a 9-year-old girl. As investigators look into the life of alleged gunman Jared Lee Loughner they are noticing his strange obsession with grammar and its ties to a Milwaukee man's Conspiracy Theory website. In early coverage of Saturday's shooting of Rep. Gabri...

Glenn Reynolds: The Real Victims of the Arizona Mass Shooting are Conservatives
courtesy of Teh Sadly In today’s Wall Street Journal, Putz says that people like Gabrielle Gifford’s husband Mark Kelly, in denouncing the “angry Rhetoric” on the right — are dishonest and indecent. To paraphrase Justice Cardozo (“proof of negligence in the air, so to speak, will not do”), there is no such thing as responsibility in the air. Those who try to connect Sarah Palin and other political figures with whom they disagree to the shootings in Ari...

Sheriff Who Suggested Talk Shows May Have Incited Attack Was Asked by Fellow Democrats to Apologize for 'Inflammatory' Remarks o
Monday, January 10, 2011 By Terence P. Jeffrey Arizona's Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik (AP Photo) (CNSNews.com) - Arizona’s Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik, who on Saturday suggested radio and television Talk Shows were somehow responsible for inciting a man who may be mentally disturbed to kill six people and wound 13 others, including Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.), once blamed policymakers for violence in his county because they had stopped institutionali

Republican Jewish Coalition Mocks Concerns About Overheated Rhetoric
Many Conservatives are unhappy with Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik, who lamented the hostile political climate following the tragedy in Arizona this weekend. "I think it's time as a country that we do a little soul-searching," Dupnik said, commenting on the "vitriolic Rhetoric that we hear day in and day out." This morning on Twitter, the Republican Jewish Coalition — whose board of directors includes former Sen. Norm Coleman and Bush officials Ari Fleischer and David Frum — den...

AZ shooting suspect not cooperating, sheriff says (& lawyer who defended McVeigh has taken his case)
Source: MSNBC TUCSON, Ariz. — A 22-year-old man charged with trying to assassinate a U.S. congresswoman in a Shooting Spree that left six people dead has remained silent and has not been cooperating with the investigation, according to a sheriff. Jared Loughner, described as a social outcast with wild beliefs steeped in paranoia and deep distrust of government, was due to make his first court appearance Monday at 4 p.m. ET. =snip= Sheriff Clarence Dupnik of Pima County, where the shootings occur...

Continuing Coverage of the Arizona Shooting
Amy Davidson on Giffords’s recovery and the heroes and Victims of the shooting, and the first “horrifying” details from Saturday. Jill Lepore on the alleged shooter, Jared Lee Loughner, and the Constitution. George Packer on the massacre’s context within the past two years’ worth of “relentlessly hostile Rhetoric” from the right, which he says has become so standard in partisan and Mainstream Media that “the gradual effect is to desensitize even p...

Limbaugh says Dems playing politics with Giffords shooting
Washington (CNN) - Conservative Talk Radio host Rush Limbaugh offered a vigorous defense of himself and Sarah Palin Monday in response to claims from some media commentators and those on the left that some of their charged statements and colorful language may have inspired the Arizona shootings. "[The media] is unnecessarily stirring up the country in ways that don't merit," Limbaugh said on his radio program Monday. "It's fatuous and silly to even verify and justify these accusations by defend...

Military: alleged Giffords gunman failed drug test
WASHINGTON—A Military official says the man charged with trying to assassinate Rep. Gabrielle Giffords in a shooting rampage was rejected from The Army in 2008 because he failed a Drug Test. The official spoke Monday on condition of anonymity because Privacy laws prevent the Military from disclosing such information about an individual's application. The official did not know what type of drug was detected in the screening. The Army has confirmed publicly that Jared Loughner tried to join...

Military: alleged Giffords gunman failed drug test
WASHINGTON — A Military official says the man charged with trying to assassinate Rep. Gabrielle Giffords in a shooting rampage was rejected from The Army in 2008 because he failed a Drug Test. The official spoke Monday on condition of anonymity because Privacy laws prevent the Military from disclosing such information about an individual's application. The official did not know what type of drug was detected in the screening. The Army has confirmed publicly that Jared Loughner tried to j...

8 still hospitalized after deadly Arizona shooting
This March 2010 photo shows a man identified as Jared L. Loughner at the 2010 Tucson Festival of Books in Tucson, Ariz. The Arizona Daily Star, a festival sponsor, confirmed from their records that the subject's address matches one under investigation by police after a shooting in Tucson that left U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords wounded and at least five others dead. Police say a suspect is in custody, and he was identified by people familiar with the investigation as Jared Loughner, 22, of Tucson....

Arizona Shooting: Photo Of Possible Second Suspect Released
The Pima County Sheriff’s Department has released a photograph of a man they believe may be associated with Jared Lee Loughner: “He is described as a Caucasian male, approximately 40-50 years old, dark hair and was last seen wearing Blue Jeans and a dark blue jacket.” TUCSON, Ariz. — Rep. Gabrielle Giffords remained hospitalized Sunday as investigators sought to understand what motivated a gunman to carry out an Assassination attempt on the Democratic lawmaker in a rampag...

Congresswomans condition stable; 8 hospitalized
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Doctors are breathing a sigh of relief as Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords reaches a second day since her surgery without increased swelling in her brain. Neurosurgeon Dr. Michael Lemole of Tucson’s University Medical Center says Giffords is still responding to doctors and her condition is stable. Her brain remains swollen, but the pressure hasn’t increased. He says they’re much more optimistic. Of those injured in the deadly shooting Saturday in Tucso...

Arizona shooter Jared Lee Loughner a registered Democrat?
UPDATE: So far, it appears to be a Hoax. I found a similar document online that had him as a Republican. And an independent. I got this notice on facebook, and haven't confirmed it. Therefore, this could be just another Hoax. Take this with a big grain of salt for now (plus, you can change Party Affiliation as often as you want): HT: Kenny B. on FB UPDATE #2: Here's the one from the left: It's just a childish thing to do by either side. ...

BRYAN PRESTON: Clicking through images of Jared Lee Loughners backyard skull shrine, linked fro
BRYAN PRESTON: “Clicking through images of Jared Lee Loughner’s backyard skull shrine, linked from Drudge. I’m not seeing a Gadsden flag.” ...

Giffords shows signs of brain activity
Published: Jan. 9, 2011 at 2:14 PM This Surveillance footage released by the Pima County Sheriff's department shows the alleged suspect. He is described as a Caucasian male, approximately 40-50 years old, dark hair, and was last seen wearing Blue Jeans, and dark blue jacket. Anyone who knows the identity of this individual is asked to contact 911, 88-CRIME or the Federal Bureau of Investigation at (520) 791-6974. (UPI/Pima County Sheriff's Department) 6 dead, 13 wounded in Ariz. Shooting Spree ...

Obama leads moment of silence after shooting
President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama are joined by government employees on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Monday, Jan. 10, 2011, to observe a moment of silence for Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., and the other Victims of an Assassination attempt against her. The shooting at a town hall-style event outside a Supermarket in Tucson, Ariz., Saturday left six dead, including a Federal Judge, and critically wounded Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. A somber President Barack...

Free speech and bullets
First, let me say I believe absolutely in the First Amendment to the Constitution, which says “Congress shall make no law … abridging the Freedom of Speech, or of the press, or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.” Don’t wait for a “but,” or an “except,” or “in some cases.” I don’t have one. Second, at least one idea arising from the tragic, despicable and appar...

Breaking...Loughner conducted bizarre, Satanic rituals
Breaking news this morning provides further insight into the mind of Jared Lee Loughner, the alleged shooter in the Tuscon massacre. Reports indicate that Loughner was engaged in Satanic rituals, according to the New York Daily News. A sinister shrine reveals a chilling occult dimension in the mind of the deranged gunman accused of shooting a member of Congress and 19 others. Hidden within a camouflage tent behind Jared Lee Loughner's home sits an alarming altar with a skull sitti...