Word: alberto
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...Witness Alberto Mora, the Navy's former top lawyer, called the abusive interrogation program a "mistake of massive proportions." He had been one of very few senior Pentagon officials to protest at the time, and his objections led to the cancellation of some of the program's worst aspects. But both Beaver and Rear Admiral Jane G. Dalton, the former top legal advisor to the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, gave answers that were repeatedly challenged by Senators. When both asserted that the use of dogs and stripping prisoners naked had never been authorized at Guantanamo, their attention...
...Meanwhile, the steady revelation in scope of America’s systematic employment of “harsh interrogation techniques” (read: torture) has also drawn into relief the high costs of unchecked hegemony. In October, Michael Mukasey replaced the disgraced Alberto Gonzales as United States Attorney General, even as he could offer only equivocation on the subject of waterboarding—the precise opposite of the message American leadership must send to former friends and allies abroad...
...grow attached to individual handlers, the rats are happy to work with anyone, so long as they are fed. Instead, it is the handlers who have grown attached to the rats. "Our economy used to be poor because of landmines, but now the rats are making a difference," says Alberto Jorge Zacarias, a handler who previously worked with mine-detecting dogs for eight years. "They are heroes. One day I will see my country free of landmines...
...Alberto Cisterna, a Calabrian anti-Mob prosecutor, says new, counterintuitive thinking is needed to overcome both the Mob and bad governance. Organized crime, like the politics of favoritism, will wither in influence, he says, when people start viewing it as a relic of the past. "The Mafia, like the old way of doing politics, is no longer able to satisfy people's primary needs," he says. "The trash in Naples is the failure of both systems...
...Socialist voters like Alberto Pérez and Isabel Rua, both of whom work in the theater, focused on their party's social initiatives. "They haven't fulfilled all their promises, Pérez said, "But they've created greater equality for women, they've helped immigrants, they've supported gay marriage. They're a lot better than the alternative...