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...Miami-based attorney. Soto maintains the government lost its chance to go after his client as a terrorist when they initially detained him. "You have to choose whether you are going to charge someone as an immigration law violator or a terrorist," Soto says. "The individuals in Guantanamo are dealt with as terrorists. That is not what the American government decided to do with Luis Posada Carriles. They placed him in normal removal proceedings. They cannot go back and call him a terrorist...
...Evelyn Rodriguez was concerned, neither side had any place at the site. "People shouldn?t be protesting today, people haven?t dealt with their grief yet," said Rodriguez, 42, who survived the devastating tsunami in Thailand in 2004. "There wasn?t anyone to blame there, but I?ve got friends here who still have open wounds...
...criticism of the freshly disclosed National Security Agency's espionage program: "National security issues are the only issues propping up President Bush. Democrats in general cannot permit themselves to be characterized as being weak on terrorism. We must make it clear that Democrats believe the terrorist threat must be dealt with forcefully and effectively." With that in mind, Democrats were largely quiet about Bush's calls for legislation. Instead, they let Republican Senators argue about it among themselves. "This time we're not taking the bait," declared a Democratic aide...
...political fallout has been bad for the president and especially another spokesman Gholam Hossein Elham, who had proposed before the furor that those who insult the government be "dealt with" legally. At his last press conference, reporters grilled Elham on the freedom of speech, and whether the government only reserved the right for its supporters. But the scandal has been titillating for thousands of Iranian women, myself included, who want to know more about the women behind the men running the country. Politicians shouldn't be judged by their personal lives, but if the president or his closest advisors were...
...fall, Pelosi did little to dissuade him. When Frost, who is now out of Congress, unsuccessfully ran for chair of the Democratic National Committee last year, Pelosi repeatedly rebuffed his attempts to get her support. While she declines to discuss those conflicts, Pelosi told TIME, "Anybody who's ever dealt with me knows not to mess with me." Pelosi carries a chip on her shoulder, believing that fellow Democrats and media élites have constantly underestimated her political ability, dating back to her unsuccessful effort to become head of the Democratic National Committee in 1985, when she was called...