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...Pelosi also got other improvements, including a review of and report on Bush's domestic surveillance program by the Justice Department inspector general and a provision making clear that Congress does not give the President a free pass on complying with domestic surveillance laws during wartime. "This bill strengthens congressional oversight," Pelosi argues...
...Pakistan Black-Market Bombs Abdul Qadeer Khan, the founder of Pakistan's nuclear weapons program, may have sold plans for a nuclear device to Iran and other countries, according to a former U.N. arms inspector--an allegation Khan claims is a "pack of lies...
...investigation into charges levelled by the federal attorney that Urs Tinner was engaging in illegal actions for a foreign country. Allegations that Tinner was a CIA agent were made in a book The Nuclear Jihadist by Douglas Frantz and Catherine Collins, as well as by the former U.N. weapons inspector David Albright. "What strikes me as interesting is what international connections did Tinner have, and if he really was a CIA agent, what impact did this have on the government's decision to shred the documents?" Egli adds...
...authorities likely to be pleased by the muttering among parents about bringing in lawyers. After the quake, some government officials have been, by Chinese standards, remarkably candid. Lin Qiang, vice inspector of the Sichuan provincial education department, told Chinese news service Xinhua "If we educational officials hadn't left loopholes for corruption, the collapsed buildings could have been as solid [as those that remained standing]." He added that "Seeking truth is more important than losing face." Such sentiments, one Chinese lawyer told TIME, "all but invite the parents to keep pressing on this issue, to do whatever they...
...wonder, if Dr. Talwar was indeed the murderer as the police allege, why the presumably blood-stained clothes he wore while allegedly slitting their throats have not been found. Women- and child-rights activists have also complained about what they say are the distasteful remarks by the region?s Inspector General of Police, Gurdarshan Singh, who said that "Dr Rajesh Talwar killed Aarushi when she objected to his extramarital affair, though he was as characterless as his daughter." The country's minister of women's welfare, Renuka Chowdhury, has castigated the police for casting aspersions on Aarushi's character while...