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...also gave approval to that program and then some. By allowing coerced testimony to be entered as evidence in trials, Congress potentially legitimized torture as a means of obtaining information. It left the President in charge of filling in the details of what the allowable methods should be. The clearest limit to what might be done was actually not so clear. The new methods could not constitute "grave breaches" of the Geneva Conventions. But after all the huffing and puffing from Republican Senators John McCain, John Warner and Lindsey Graham, the Executive Branch kept control over what exactly could happen...
...very pleased that the case will be concluded," he said, emerging from the courthouse last week. "I plan to resume my business career." Northern California's tech investors, many of whom wrote letters of support during Quattrone's two trials, seem poised to embrace him. It is the clearest sign yet that while the world may have changed, it has also moved...
During a two-day meeting later this week in a stately neo-baroque building in Tokyo, nine men may vote to end of one of the oddest periods in the history of central banking?and send one of the clearest signals yet that Japan's economy has finally emerged from 15 years of stagnation. Led by governor Toshihiko Fukui, the monetary-policy committee at the Bank of Japan (BOJ) will vote on whether to raise its overnight lending rate to 0.25% or leave it at zero, where it has been for more than five years. That shift would not just...
...ultimate goal. Russia "must aspire to claim world leadership in the realm of energy," Putin told his Security Council last December. For the Kremlin, energy security equals Russian national security, and it won't shy away from making oil and gas significant tools of its foreign policy. The clearest sign came last winter, when the state-controlled gas behemoth Gazprom shut off supplies to Ukraine for several days, in what the Russians described as a price dispute but Ukraine and many others took to be a crude political move to punish Kiev for embracing Western institutions such as nato. More...
...Leader Harry Reid, who was also at the convention. "They're afraid of taking strong positions," said Jane Hamsher, who runs a popular liberal blog called firedoglake. "They're embrassed by progressives." AmericaBlog's John Aravosis said congressional Democrats should attack President Bush on privacy issues and said the clearest sign it was a good idea was "the Democrats haven't done anything...