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...appointed the U.S. attorney for New Jersey by former President Bush and was the only U.S. attorney in the nation who was reappointed by President Clinton three years later. Chertoff developed a reputation for being more of a Republican partisan in the mid-1990s after he served as special counsel to the U.S. Senate Whitewater Committee that investigated a failed real estate deal involving the Clintons. Before becoming secretary of homeland security, Chertoff was appointed assistant attorney general for the criminal division and subsequently to an appellate judgeship in Philadelphia. The lone dissenting vote in his judicial confirmation was cast...
...some 20 states, that requires companies to notify customers when their personal data may have been compromised. There were 134 such breaches last year, potentially affecting more than 57 million people, according to the Identity Theft Resource Center. "Companies used to bury this stuff," says Chris Hoofnagle, senior counsel for the Electronic Privacy Information Center. Now that they must go public, buying insurance can reduce liability risk...
...Wellness tutors were introduced in some houses beginning in the fall of 2004 to coordinate the messages of agencies under University Health Services, such as the Bureau of Study Counsel, the Center for Health and Wellness, and the Alcohol and Substance Abuse Service...
...That is doubtful. But Gonzales heard plenty of what the Senators had to say. When Senator Russ Feingold, Democrat of Wisconsin, suggested the former White House Counsel had been less than truthful during his Attorney General confirmation hearings a year ago for saying that a question about warrantless wiretapping was "hypothetical," Gonzales remained firm; the question was indeed hypothetical, he retorted, because Feingold had asked him whether he thought the President could authorize eavesdropping "in violation...
...chief, could “authorize warrantless searches of Americans’ homes and wiretaps of their conversations in violation of the criminal and foreign intelligence surveillance statutes of this country.” Gonzales, who knew of the NSA program’s existence as White House counsel, denied that the administration was engaging in any illegal wiretapping and that they were discussing a “hypothetical situation...