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...hardworking american middle class should not tolerate or condone behavior like Enron's. If things like this are allowed to continue, it will be our hard-earned savings that will next end up in the CEOs' pockets. LYNN A. MALDONADO North Branch, Minn...
...Hambali, preached a radical new vision of Islam, heavily influenced by the worldview of Osama bin Laden, a man Hambali claimed to have met personally on two occasions. The militant clerics found a receptive audience among many KMM members, government officials say, focusing their attention on a KMM branch in the state of Selangor, outside the capital Kuala Lumpur...
...role of bombmaker was a surprising one for Yazid, who officials say was a minor figure in the Selangor branch of the KMM, a "runner" as one puts it. But Yazid flourished in the Jemaah Islamiah, rising to become Hambali's most trusted lieutenant. Hambali ordered Yazid to host the two hijackers who died in the Pentagon attack at his condo in Kuala Lumpur. Yazid has told his interrogators that he had no knowledge of the Sept. 11 attacks but, one official says, he suspected the men who stayed at his apartment had some role in the attacks because "they...
...tell, don’t harass, don’t pursue” policy that the military was mandated to implement in the mid-90s. HROTCA recognizes these points of contention and strives to remind students and faculty that the military itself is not an autonomous branch of government but is subordinate to the wishes of the president, Congress, and the courts...
...politically resonant than the national security claim - but important nonetheless, says John McGinnis, a visiting professor at Northwestern and a former Justice Department official who has served as an advisor on issues of executive privilege. "I certainly think Cheney is able to point to a long history of executive branch precedent, in which the President claims privilege in deliberations," McGinnis says. "Cheney can argue that high-ranking members of the executive branch must be able to have candid conversations without fearing disclosure...