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...skeptics that terrorists have long been housed at U.S. prisons, and "you can't recite one terrorist attack by people trying to get out." He says he has received assurances from federal officials that should detainees be brought to Standish, no land near the prison would be seized to expand the facility. But the prison would largely be managed by military personnel, and it's unclear how many local residents would be hired. (See "How Detroit Lost...
...reforms, likely to be enacted by the Senate this week, significantly expand due process rights beyond the law Bush muscled through Congress in 2006. Statements obtained by "cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment" would be prohibited. Hearsay evidence would be harder to introduce in a commission proceeding. Defendants would have a greater ability to select their own counsel. And Administration lobbyists successfully fought for even broader protections in the bill that was approved by House-Senate conferees and passed by the full House...
...will be some time before the answers to such questions are reached, but in the meantime, the investigation in Chongqing continues to expand. On Wednesday, six of the alleged ringleaders were sentenced to death for murder, assault, extortion and other organized-crime-related charges. The death sentences were part of two cases involving a total of 31 defendants, some of whom have already received sentences ranging from one year to life in prison. Senior party member Liu Guanglei told reporters that 16 top police and judiciary officials were involved in the investigation, including Chongqing's top judicial official, Wen Qiang...
Philosophy Professor Edward J. Hall said that hiring Richard may attract more graduate students studying Richard’s specialities to the school and could possibly expand the size of Harvard’s philosophy department, which Hall added is one of the smaller departments in the nation...
...resolution of the election dispute will no doubt be touted as evidence of progress to convince skeptical Democrats of the need for reinforcements, although the sweetener will be a promise to dramatically expand the training of Afghan security forces. But in the near term, the Afghan National Army (ANA) will be little more than a sidebar to the deployment of thousands more U.S. troops to hold the line against the Taliban. The ANA ostensibly numbers some 95,000 troops right now, but its capacity to fight the Taliban remains difficult to assess. It is certainly not immune to the political...