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...Justice Department is considering other ways to get around due-process requirements. Capitol Hill sources tell TIME that the department's Office of Legal Counsel is looking into the possibility of setting up a military court to try terrorism suspects who wind up being charged, thus enabling prosecutors to avoid many of the niceties of the regular court system. In 1942 the Supreme Court allowed an American military commission to try eight Germans who had landed by submarine in Florida and New York with plans of sabotage. The men were found guilty and six of them were executed...
...article "Homeland Insecurity," Nancy Gibbs implied that the members of the House of Representatives may have evacuated in too much haste after anthrax was found in the mail area of the House side of the Capitol [TERRORISM, Oct. 29]. My fiance writes letters for a Congressman. The evacuation of the House side was an issue not of the bravery of members of Congress but of the safety of everyone. If the occupants of the World Trade Center had been warned of the attacks, would we have blamed them for evacuating the building beforehand? There is reason to believe that...
...Even after its unequivocal victory in the Senate, the bill had trouble across the Capitol, where House Republicans balked at a move they consider a boon to unions - and the Democratic Party. The Republican bill, sponsored by Rep. Don Young, took a big step away from total federal control. The GOP version maintains a commitment to sky marshals and to stricter employment screening of airport employees, but allows airports to either hire federal workers or hire security jobs out to private contractors. As the debate raged, Young was blunt in his opposition to the Senate version. "If people think there...
...fear that began in a newsroom in Florida and spread to Capitol Hill, New York City and New Jersey has now jumped to far-off Karachi, the commercial capital of Pakistan. Two weeks ago, in the newsroom of Pakistan's largest daily newspaper, the 1-million-circulation Jang, a 32-year-old business reporter ripped open a hand-delivered envelope he assumed to be a press release. Then he panicked. "There is powder," he cried, recoiling and flinging the letter onto his desk. "It has powder!" The paper's management sent the letter for tests at Karachi's respected...
...panel also included Senator George Voinovich (R-Ohio), who has been instrumental on Capitol Hill in proposing legislation to address what experts call the “human capital crisis” in government...