Word: counsels
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...forthcoming Justice Department report is expected to conclude that the FBI invoked nonexistent terrorism emergencies to illegally obtain more than 2,000 U.S. telephone records, according to the Washington Post. FBI general counsel Valerie Caproni called the bureau's methods, which included issuing approvals after the fact and persuading phone companies to release records, "good-hearted but not well thought...
...less caloric than grain, it takes two to three years to get a pastured cow to slaughter weight, whereas a feedlot animal requires only 14 months. "Not only does it take fewer animals on a feedlot to produce the same amount of meat," says Tamara Thies, chief environmental counsel for the National Cattlemen's Beef Association (which contests the U.N.'s 18% figure), "but because they grow so quickly, they have less chance to produce greenhouse gases...
...clamor to have Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab declared an enemy combatant and hauled before a military tribunal ignores several inconvenient facts ... A military tribunal would provide many of the same protections about which critics complain: the presumption of innocence, proof beyond a reasonable doubt, access to counsel. The string-'em-up itch is understandable, but a military tribunal won't soothe...
...several points made by Cott—for example, that families are just as important to children as marriages—proved unconvincing for several members of the opposing counsel...