Word: harman
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Democrats who received intelligence briefings quickly told their colleagues to hold their fire. During a conference call that House minority leader Nancy Pelosi held last Wednesday with Democratic Representatives scattered throughout the country, some were still grumbling about the politics of the Ridge press conference. Jane Harman, senior Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, quickly cut them off. Everyone should "take this threat very seriously," she told them. Indeed, members of Congress themselves may be in the terrorists' sights. Two days before Ridge issued his nationwide alert, an FBI official warned a congressional leader that he and other top legislative...
...investigation of the abuses, Major General Antonio Taguba found that MPs were "actively requested" by MI officers and private contractors to "set physical and mental conditions for favorable interrogation of witnesses." Taguba took testimony supporting this from several of those who were eventually charged, including Specialist Sabrina Harman, 26, and Sergeant Javal Davis, 26. In a sworn statement, Harman told investigators, "It is Graner and Frederick's job to do things for MI and OGA [other government agencies] to get these people to talk." Her own job, she said, was to stress detainees by keeping them awake...
Confronted with indisputable photographic evidence of malfeasance, defenders of the Abu Ghraib seven offer testimony as to what they say is the true character of their friends and loved ones. Sabrina Harman is so tenderhearted, attests her stepmother Patricia Harman, "she picks up bugs and puts them outside" rather than kill them. England, said her sister Jessica Klinestiver, would give money to anyone who needed it. Frederick, his uncle insists, was no prisoner abuser back home but "actually saved the life of a prisoner who was hanging himself. He got him down and got him breathing," says Lawson. "He received...
...Sidney Harman, founder of the high-fidelity audio firm Harman/Kardon, said that society can engender good behavior through regulation and legislation, pointing to his own company as an example...
...There is a fundamental and even profound obligation to generate a climate where everyone in the company feels moved that life is better. And business then prospers as well,” Harman said...