Word: fbi
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...Catherine Hardwicke had of Twilight came at Sundance in 2007, where the founders of the newly independent Summit Entertainment showed her a script. It had been worked over so thoroughly at Paramount that it was practically unrecognizable. "It had Bella as a track star," Hardwicke remembers. "Then there were FBI agents - the vampires would migrate south into Mexico every year, and FBI agents in Utah were tracking them. They ended up on an island chasing everyone around in jet skis." (See the top 10 Sundance film festival hits...
...inside the White House, the mood had changed amid the furor over the release of the torture memos in April. McDonough and other NSC advisers assembled in the Oval Office to discuss it. Obama raised questions about security - were the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security on board? Separately, his legislative-affairs staff warned of stiff congressional resistance - and Republicans responded on cue. Word of the plan leaked on April 24, and Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell launched three weeks of near daily attacks on the idea of letting the Uighurs loose in the U.S. Dick Durbin, Obama...
...their right to remain silent prior to any communication, even a chance or informal conversation, bedside or on the street, according to Scott L. Silliman, a retired military lawyer and head of the Duke University Law School Center on Ethics and National Security. (See a story about the FBI and claims that it ignored intel on Hasan...
...Well, I think for me as a filmmaker the biggest thing I learned is that you as a filmmaker really can’t impose your narrative on somebody else. And when he and his community responded to that FBI raid [of their mosque]...they were saying that things were going to work out for them, and they were going to be better people. I had trouble comprehending that. You have to be super, super patient and sometimes go beyond your comfort zone to really capture the story...
...When they got raided by the FBI, I would have responded differently personally. I expected them to get a lawyer and be aggressive...that was the hard part for me to watch them not respond in that way. But they took a different path. He took a path that was looking inwards and taking some kind of spiritual improvement...