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...years ago, Neely said that Dershowitz received a life-threatening message, and FBI escorts trailed him for the following week to ensure his safety...
...security net covering Barack Obama's Inauguration will comprise more than 20,000 law-enforcement officers focusing on a 3½ sq. mi. secure zone that includes the White House, the Capitol and the National Mall. There will be metal detectors, 155 two-person FBI teams dressed in plain clothes, 5,000 surveillance cameras, eyes in the sky and a 40-ft. bomb truck for dealing with suspicious items - in other words, the works...
...other politically loaded cases, Holder seemed all too accommodating to political benefactors. The most notable of these is Bill Clinton's 2000 pardon of fugitive Marc Rich - which Holder facilitated - and the 1999 clemency Clinton granted to imprisoned members of FALN, a Puerto Rican nationalist group linked by the FBI to bombings, armed robberies and murders. Republicans accused the President at the time of using the commutations to draw Puerto Rican support in New York for the budding senatorial campaign of his wife. In the conservative National Review, Andrew C. McCarthy opines, "With the FALN pardons, [Holder] helped foster...
...only certainty in the county is that more politicians in the area will be accused of bad behavior. "I wish I could say this is the last one, but I fear it isn't," Acosta said. The FBI set up a full-time corruption squad in West Palm Beach in 2007, and Acosta announced on Friday that the U.S. Attorney's Office recently bought an extra floor of space in the building it is housed in. The way things are going, they'll need...
...should be noted that there was, and is, no evidence that these techniques actually work. Experienced military and FBI interrogators believe that torture leads, more often than not, to fabricated confessions. Patient, persistent questioning using subtle psychological carrots and sticks is the surest way to get actionable information. But prisoners held by the U.S. were tortured - first at Guantánamo Bay and later in Afghanistan and Iraq. The Armed Services Committee report details the techniques used on one prisoner: "Military working dogs had been used against [Mohammed al-] Khatani. He had also been deprived of adequate sleep for weeks...