Word: indictmente
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Last Wednesday morning Bush convened a war council of top aides in the Oval Office. For weeks he had hinted at the possibility of a veto if Congress sent him Kennedy's version of the patients' bill of rights. Now Bush decided to make the threat explicit the next day...
Global superpowers aren't supposed to feel powerless. But despite its hegemony, the U.S. could not stop the 1996 bombing of the Khobar Towers barracks in Saudi Arabia that killed 19 American servicemen, and last week the Bush Administration all but admitted that it is unable--or unwilling--to punish...
It is a premise that requires revisiting in light of the indictment this month of one of Fernandes' students in the brutal murder of two others.
On June 8, an Assistant U.S. Attorney announced the government's intent to seek a maximum penalty of life without parole for Mesa, following his indictment on 15 counts, including two of first-degree murder. His lawyer, without offering details, entered a plea of not guilty. The trial is scheduled...
In the short term, of course, Washington is unlikely to do anything differently as a result of the indictment. After all, none of the accused is even in U.S. custody right now, and this administration is unlikely to create a major international crisis in response to an indictment rushed through...