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Former New Jersey attorney general John Farmer served as senior counsel to the 9/11 Commission, tasked with investigating the government response to the attacks. His new book, The Ground Truth, picks up where the commission left off - taking a deeper look at the government's disorganized response to the attacks and exposing officials determined to hide their failings from the inquiry. Farmer uses newly released transcripts and recordings to cast doubt on the official version of events and show that the U.S. government was struggling to figure out which planes were hijacked and where they were going, even hours after...
Ashcroft, former Attorney General John • lawsuit can be filed against, according to a federal-appeals-court ruling, for the "repugnant" evidence-free preventive detention of American Muslims...
...Married to Roxanne Wilson and has four sons, all of them Eagle Scouts who also served in the military. His oldest son, a prosecutor, recently announced plans to run for South Carolina attorney general...
...disappointing results follow a strong rebound by the market since May, after a decisive general-election victory by India's Congress Party boosted investors' hopes that the ruling coalition government would have the votes to push through key financial sector reforms and privatization. From May through Sept. 9, the Bombay Stock Exchange's benchmark Sensex index rose 42%, bouncing back from a 52% decline in 2008. As stocks revived, so did India's moribund IPO market. Since May, eight companies have raised about $2.5 billion in initial offerings; there was just one IPO in the first five months...
...political barometer of the Middle East. And that's why the news Thursday, Sept. 10, that Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri had given up trying to form a consensus government three months after his ruling coalition won the country's parliamentary elections is a sign of a more general unease in the region: Lebanon's political crisis - and the broader Middle East cold war of which it is an expression - is far from over...