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...dismiss what an association with the dead princess can do for those who want to do good. Andrew Morton is best known as the author of Diana: Her True Story, the 1992 biography that revealed - with Diana?s covert blessing - how unhappy she was in her marriage. But he also chairs Response International, which helps war victims in countries like Bosnia, Kosovo and Lebanon. In 2002, the charity received a grant from the Memorial Fund to support land-mine clearance in Pakistan. "Some of the charity workers have to go where literacy rates are low and suspicion of strangers...
...Beyond that, there are several questions I would ask the candidates: Under which conditions do you think the unilateral use of military force is acceptable? Do you believe that U.S. special forces and covert operators should be able to pursue, kill or capture known terrorists in unconventional ways-even pursue them across borders like Pakistan's? Do you believe the Secretary of State should be more powerful than the Secretary of Defense? Would you appoint members of the other party to be part of your foreign policy team? Can you give some names of people in the other party whose...
...agent can be illegal, neither Libby nor anyone else was actually charged with doing that to Plame. In fact, pre-trial maneuvering found the prosecutor, Patrick Fitzgerald, insisting that this was not a case about a leak and fighting defense requests for documents about whether Plame was ever a covert agent, a status that could have made intentionally leaking her identity a crime...
...This is the law that Judge Walton will operate under Tuesday. He must review the guidelines, and if he believes that Libby's lies hid a probable violation of the law against outing covert agents, he can bump up the sentence to 30 months or more. The betting here is that he won't. It would give too much weight to a mere suspicion...
...agent can be illegal, neither Libby nor anyone else was actually charged with doing that to Plame. In fact, pre-trial maneuvering found the prosecutor, Patrick Fitzgerald, insisting that this was not a case about a leak and fighting defense requests for documents about whether Plame was ever a covert agent, a status that could have made intentionally leaking her identity a crime...