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...humiliating epilogue to the Bush Administration's attempt to integrate what many critics describe as undeniable torture into U.S. military and intelligence policy. The Bybee memo, (named for Jay Bybee, then head of the Office of Legal Counsel) was largely authored by John Yoo, then Deputy Assistant Attorney General of the Office of General Counsel. It provided legal guidance for civilians engaged in interrogating terrorism suspects. Administration officials feared that CIA employees and other nonmilitary personnel could face indictment under the federal law that upholds U.S. obligation to the United Nations Convention Against Torture. The memo narrowly defined torture...
...says Thompson-Coffe. A debate stirred in Virginia a few days ago when the Fairfax County registrar was not going to count dozens of military ballots that came from overseas because they were missing the address of the witness - which the FWAB doesn't provide space for. Luckily, state Attorney General Bob McDonnell ruled that the state should count the votes even if they don't include the witness' address...
...Mexico Spies Hinder The War on Drugs With the help of up to $450,000 paid each month to government workers, the Beltrán-Leyva drug cartel infiltrated the Mexican attorney general's office and may have paid a spy inside the U.S. embassy to leak Drug Enforcement Administration secrets, Mexican authorities say. The case is the most serious known example of corruption since 1997, when the head of Mexico's antidrug agency was arrested and later convicted of aiding a drug lord. U.S. officials have not confirmed the embassy infiltration, and no staff changes are planned...
...connections among the Cabinet members is complex. All the other members have donated the maximum amount allowed to Ketner's congressional campaign. Gill, Lewis and Stryker employ political advisers - respectively, Denver attorney Ted Trimpa; Paul Yandura, who worked in the Clinton White House's political-affairs office; and Lisa Turner, a former political director for the Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee - who regularly speak with one another and with others who work for Cabinet members...
...real" Clinton to take office, he stumbled. His transition team was disorganized. He abandoned his tax cuts and worried about the bond market instead. He pitched into a needless controversy over gays in the military. His crime-fighting proposals were drowned out by his difficulty in finding an Attorney General who had paid all her taxes. He antagonized the White House press corps and seemed unsure in his dealings with the Democrats who ran Congress. He took his eye off the ball overseas and let a police action in Somalia turn into a national embarrassment. The Republicans saw all this...