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...ordeals, claims an attorney at the ACLU. Guantánamo is only one small part of a series of serious human rights violations around the world. The CIA has been actively involved in an “extraordinary rendition” program under which possible suspects are arrested and flown to territories outside U.S. jurisdiction and interrogated by U.S. and foreign officials. The ACLU claims that one German citizen, El-Masri, was kidnapped by the CIA, taken to a “black site” in Afghanistan, tortured for two months, and eventually abandoned on a hillside in Albania...
...Problem of Appearance McCain's trouble with influence-peddling dates to 1987, when he found himself ensnared in the Keating Five scandal. He had met with federal regulators on behalf of banker Charles Keating Jr., a wealthy fund raiser and friend who had flown the McCain family on private jets to vacations in the Bahamas. A Senate ethics panel found that McCain had exercised "poor judgment" but had broken no rules. The honor-bound Senator was nonetheless rattled. "Appearance in politics," McCain said years later, "is reality...
...entanglement between McCain's office and Alcalde's firm went further. In December 1999, FCC chairman William Kennard chastised McCain for writing a letter encouraging the resolution to a licensing matter involving Paxson Communications. The letter was written one day after McCain had been flown on a Paxson jet to a fund raiser on a yacht in West Palm Beach, Fla., and just weeks before Paxson's owner was scheduled to hold a fund raiser for McCain. The appearance problem was so severe that John Weaver, McCain's political adviser at the time, asked one of Alcalde's lobbyists...
...value of $6.5 billion and?for 2006, the year of the most recent declared figures?net sales of $1.97 billion with a net profit of $170 million. It also has 9,385 full-time employees, not to mention those working for subsidiaries around the world, many of whom have flown in from all points of the compass just for tonight...
...Irish passport thanks to an Irish grandfather - wore a cocked neon-green velvet top hat to complete his leprechaun outfit. Surveying the scene, he said, "This is the same as a parade anywhere else. Except it's more sober. And it's in China." David Sheridan, who had flown in along with his band, the Geantra? Players for which he plays the fiddle, thought the event showed a needed "bit of looseness in China." He liked something about the look of it. "There's great color here," he said. "It's the green. Usually in China there's more?more...