Word: counseling
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...told the CIA has a hit list of terrorist leaders whom the agency is authorized to kill. It's a strategy that even Jeffrey Smith, the former general counsel of the CIA, has frowned upon. "This ought to be a last resort for the United States," he said after the Predator attack in Yemen. And, Smith noted, "sometimes you get the wrong man. It also seems to legitimize assassination...putting at risk our own leaders and to some extent our own citizens...
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Chief Justice and former Harvard General Counsel Margaret H. Marshall made headlines last week when she said she was not interested in the Harvard post, one week after a Boston Globe article named her as a leading external candidate...
...time to announce." Less than an hour later, it was Brownback's cell phone that rang. In his first reversal of Clinton Administration policy, the new President--who had downplayed abortion during his campaign--said he would block federal money from international family-planning organizations that offer or counsel abortion. The crowd roared when Brownback delivered the news...
White House counsel Alberto Gonzales has all along been oblique about how the Bush Administration reads the measure, which was strenuously opposed by the securities industry. In a response last month to the two Senators' protests, he said, "Questions about the scope of [the whistle-blower provision] will ultimately be addressed by the courts." --By Viveca Novak
...Bush administration's inclination to close the case in short order, that may not work for Blair. With opposition to a war at this stage growing in Britain and Europe despite the prime minister's valiant efforts to stem the tide, Blair is likely to press Bush to counsel patience and press Bush to stay on the path of seeking UN authorization for military action. Blair affirmed on Wednesday that Britain would support military authorized by a UN resolution, or in a situation "where it was clear there was a breach by Saddam and there was unreasonable blockage...