Word: backgrounds
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...leave behind this very revealing and gigantic trail of information," says Nicholas Bramble, a Yale Law School fellow who has studied digital evidence. And that trail - which can include anything from a post on a Facebook profile to a message to a MySpace contact to an appearance in the background of a stranger's photo - can be a "huge resource" in judicial proceedings, he says...
...Nigerian to carry out a terrorist attack; another intercept had suggested some sort of attack around Christmas. The State Department had learned from the U.S. embassy in Abuja, Nigeria, that the son of a prominent Nigerian banker had joined extremists in Yemen. The CIA had even produced a background report on Abdulmutallab. All this information had been forwarded to the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC), which was created in 2004 specifically to take information from all these agencies and "connect those dots...
...trial and reiterated her desire to dismiss the U.S. attorneys who were hired for her by the Pakistani government. "I've fired them many times," she said. She then told the judge she didn't want any Jews on the jury "if they have a Zionist or Israeli background," adding, "I have a feeling everyone here is them, subject to genetic testing...
Smolinsky also said that the Pudding was impressed by Hathaway's background in the arts...
...probably backfired - for the Arizona Republican. Understandably, McCain isn't keen to admit he played a poor hand. During a Jan. 12 appearance on the Today show, he was asked by Matt Lauer if it was true that his campaign had done only a cursory background check on Palin before selecting her as his running mate. McCain disavowed responsibility for the process used to scrutinize her with a terse "I wouldn't know." When pressed, he added, "I wouldn't know what the sources are or care." Brushing aside questions about the events surrounding the 2008 election, he insisted that...