Word: counseling
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...Michel Tubiana, president of France's Human Rights League. While visiting India last week, Blunkett proposed a tough antiterror package for Britain, including lowering the standard of evidence needed to convict accused terrorists from "beyond reasonable doubt" to "the balance of probabilities"; keeping evidence secret from defendants; requiring defense counsel, and even judges, to be picked from a panel with security clearances; and eliminating juries. Civil-liberties advocates are horrified. "It's very disturbing," says Barry Hugill, spokesman for the advocacy group Liberty. Blunkett floated his trial balloon "the same week Tony Blair was announcing an inquiry into intelligence flaws...
Cobb, general counsel for the national Green Party and founder of the Green Party of Texas, called U.S. military involvement in Iraq an “immoral occupation...done by, for and on behalf of multinational companies...
...Iraq, Grand Ayatullah Ali Sistani stayed out of sight, holed up in the same nondescript white-walled compound on an alley off the Street of the Messenger in Najaf where he was kept under house arrest during the rule of Saddam Hussein. A crowd of followers seeking his counsel gathered outside. Some were allowed to enter; others were told by the guards to submit their questions in writing and come back another...
...writer is director of the Bureau of Study Counsel...
...This was a correct, principled decision and was approved by the President and all members of his national security team. To lay any criticism of this decision at Wolfowitz's doorstep is unfair. He is an important member of the President's national security team. President Bush values his counsel, judgment and principled leadership. STEVE HADLEY, ASSISTANT TO THE PRESIDENT AND DEPUTY NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER Washington...