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...joined the U.S. Justice Department's Boston Organized Crime Strike Force as a special attorney...
...November 2008, appeared before the U.S. Supreme Court for the first time, arguing in Melendez-Diaz v. Massachusetts that crime-lab technicians should not have to testify in court to defend their findings in drug cases. The Justices ruled 5-4 against the state...
...there's a sensitive investigation into the flaws of crime fighters, the man the feds often call in to do the job is William H. Webster. Over the decades, the former FBI and CIA chief has headed numerous high-profile investigations into public agencies, including the Los Angeles Police Department's response to the 1992 Rodney King riots and the FBI's failure to catch Soviet and Russian mole Robert Hanssen...
...eventually ending up in Yemen, his sermons and teachings - delivered in English - apparently became a source of inspiration for the Fort Dix six and some of the young men who eventually left the U.S. to join al-Shabaab, the Islamist group in Somalia. (See the top 10 crime stories...
...dollars. With Mbeki and Zuma slugging it out at the time, the courts and the state prosecutors became their arena, at considerable cost to the judiciary's independence. Prosecutors finally dropped the case in April, two weeks before Zuma became their new boss. Says Feinstein, "To talk about crime and corruption when he has undermined the judicial system, to talk about the role of women when he has three wives, it rings hollow. That's Zuma's big problem. He has correctly identified the issues and he knows exactly what he needs to say. But do I think...