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...Brando at a White House dinner with President John F. Kennedy: "As Marlon attacked the pasta, Kennedy challenged him: 'Marlon, have you gained weight? Looks like you've put on a few.''Nary an ounce.''Kennedy grinned. "Then the CIA sent up some wrong information.'Marlon bet the president that JFK weighed more than he did. A bathroom scale was brought into the room. Brando checked in at 187 pounds. Kennedy was eleven pounds lighter.'Get some food into this man,' Marlon told the other guests. 'You can't lead the country at a hundred seventy...
...regular U.S. criminal and military law. Then there's the question of what to do with future suspected terrorists who are caught in an indefinite war on terrorism if there is no more Guantánamo. Alleged terrorist operatives will continue to fall into the hands of the FBI, CIA and military in the years ahead. Obama may consider working to create so-called national-security courts, which would essentially be a hybrid tribunal system blending military and civilian criminal law. Those who support the creation of national-security courts say that only a new, carefully constructed system can effectively...
...Clinton, John McCain and other political rivals on the road to the presidency. But starting Thursday morning, those morning meetings will concern two more intractable foes: America's enemies in Afghanistan and Iraq, along with whatever other intelligence droppings the nation's spies have gleaned overnight. The hour-long CIA briefings are an early-morning ritual for Presidents, and they will begin for Obama even before he has named the national-security team - the Secretaries of Defense and State, and the National Security Adviser - who will ultimately have to act on the contents of those intelligence briefings...
...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 as an act "equivalent in intensity to the pain accompanying serious physical injury, such as organ failure, impairment of bodily function...
...networks have taken CIA-style precautions to insure that Election Day runs smoothly. At 11 a.m. Tuesday, three representatives from each of the six news organizations in the business of calling presidential elections - CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN, Fox News and the Associated Press - quarantine themselves at an undisclosed location to start poring over exit poll data supplied by Edison Media Research and Mitofsky International. "I can't tell you any more than that it's in the state of New York," Gawiser says of the meeting place. (Other execs confirmed that the reps indeed meet in New York City.) BlackBerrys...