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...statement announcing his reversal, President Obama stressed the reconfigured commissions will increase legal protections for defendants, such as barring information obtained through brutal interrogations and limiting the use of hearsay evidence. "This is the best way to protect our country, while upholding our deeply held values," Obama said on May 15. Many Republicans and some Democrats applauded the move, insisting that some terror suspects are simply too dangerous to be tried in open court with the full protections afforded American citizens. "I give them great credit for coming to their senses," said David Rivkin, a former Reagan administration lawyer...
...have no evidence for this accusation and are basing these findings entirely on hearsay, but once again in the weekend leading up to the Harvard/Dartmouth baseball series, a "random, unprovoked" act of vandalism has tainted Harvard's athletic facilities...
...update on where we are but to move the district forward to address needs that are not currently met.” Nolan’s son, who is in middle school, currently takes geometry at the high school—an option she heard about only through hearsay. Nolan and other committee members said this should not be the case. “We need something institutionalized for kids who would benefit from an advanced math curriculum,” said committee member Marc C. McGovern. Nolan said that many parents of children who are not challenged by their...
...because of the flexibility available to military commissions in accepting evidence. The commission's rules, unlike those used in civilian trials, allow the admission of pre-2005 testimony gleaned during "cruel" and "inhuman" interrogations, so long as the judge deems that evidence relevant and reliable. The rules also permit hearsay evidence. The judge said he would not bar statements Hamdan made after arriving at Guantánamo, where the trial's opening arguments took place Tuesday. But he insisted that prosecutors present the interrogators involved to explain the conditions under which Hamdan made those statements...
...That don't-go-there approach was Barack Obama's plan for months until, on the candidate's first full day of campaigning as his party's presumed presidential nominee, a reporter from McClatchy Newspapers who was traveling aboard his plane asked him about a particularly toxic bit of hearsay that was zooming around the Internet about his wife Michelle. Obama lost his cool. "We have seen this before. There is dirt and lies that are circulated in e-mails, and they pump them out long enough until finally you, a mainstream reporter, asks me about it," Obama said, bristling...