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Over the course of Zapatero's first term, the PP requested that the government answer hundreds of questions about the alleged cover-up, while party leader Mariano Rajoy went so far as to suggest that a key piece of physical evidence - a backpack loaded with explosives - may have been planted in order to lend credence to the Islamist theory. These doubts were fanned by the center-right newspaper El Mundo, and Catholic radio station COPE into a full-fledged conspiracy campaign. Yet even after the country's national court found absolutely no connection between ETA and the Madrid attacks, Rajoy...
Secondly, the hypothetical proposed by the column, that police could “plead ‘negligent’ as a cover-up for violations of individuals’ rights in a variety of circumstances…” is not accurate, according to the finding in Herring. Here, the court allowed the exception to the exclusionary rule because the officers that arrested eefendant Herring did so based on mistakes made by other law-enforcement officers, not the arresting officers themselves. They acted in good faith based on information they received from colleagues, which happened to be incorrect...
...kind of report & fail to address these Qs, press jumps on you wanting to know answers; while if you give answers that aren't fully honest (e.g. nothing re Hillary) you risk hugely compounding the problem by getting caught in half-truths. You run risk of turning this into 'cover-up.' " - from a note that Stern wrote regarding the firing of the White House travel office staff, allegedly at the request of then-First Lady Hillary Clinton. Some people claimed that the employees were fired so that Hillary could appoint friends. (New York Times, January...
...Court’s decision could give rise to a world in which policemen plead “negligent” as a cover-up for violations of individuals’ rights in a variety of circumstances. For example, policemen might conduct unwarranted searches claiming that they forgot to file the warrant papers or that they thought they had a warrant even though insufficient evidence existed to obtain...
...Dignified Recluse. But money does not preoccupy Andrew Wyeth, and his whimsies are mostly a cover-up for what engrosses him, the subjects of his work. The most famous of these is a woman named Christina Olson. He has painted eight temperas of her or her house, a decrepit three-story clapboard pile atop a knoll near the Maine seacoast. One of them, Christina's World, now 15 years old, is one of the most durable and disquieting images of 20th century America. Against the wall of landscape that leads up to her house, the crippled body...