Word: counsels
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...rounds? The FBI wanted to prevent the Davidians from taking refuge in a concrete bunker, but a cold round fired shortly after 6 a.m. bounced off the roof. According to a document at the FBI's legal counsel's office dated February 1996--but that officials say they realized only last week was significant--HRT agents asked to use M651 military rounds because the heat they generate produces a vapor that provides greater penetrating power. A yet unidentified FBI official on the ground authorized the plan but did not report it to Washington. The two M651 rounds ricocheted...
Many privacy advocates are worried that the ruling could set a bad precedent for all kinds of privacy protections. "The court [in the Denver case] doesn't think privacy alone is enough," notes Deirdre Mulligan, staff counsel at the Center for Democracy and Technology. "They think an invasion of privacy has to lead to something else" before the government can intervene...
Responding to an emergency motion filed by Partisan Defense Committee (PDC) counsel Valerie West and Geronimo's long-time counsel Stuart Hanlon, Federal District Court Judge Weigel granted a temporary restraining order compelling prison officials to grant Geronimo single cell status...
...headquarters, in a high-profile slap-down of the bureau over its handling of Waco evidence. The New York Times reported Friday that tensions between the attorney general and FBI director Louis Freeh ?- which have been mounting since he publicly second-guessed her on the issue of opening independent counsel investigations into campaign finance and nuclear espionage ?- had reached a breaking point over Waco. Reno?s anger is understandable: After staking her credibility on a version of events at Waco which denied that federal agents had fired potentially incendiary tear gas rounds, Ms. Reno found herself in limbo last week...
...however, they have been denied membership at the golf club at the Country Club of Louisiana. The reason? "It's just plain racism," says No Limit's general counsel, Edwin Hawkins. "What other reason could it be?" (The golf club has other African-American members.) Hawkins says the chilly reception has extended to everything from the "300% premiums" they are being charged to build their new recording studio to a flurry of business-related lawsuits against them. "We don't feel," he says, "that we have been received as citizens of the community...