Word: jails
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Instead of indicting the President on rape charges, the Attorney General cut a deal with him. Katsav is expected to resign and be indicted on lesser charges of sexual harassment and indecent behavior. And, to the outrage of many Israeli commentators and feminists, Mazuz recommended that Katsav serve no jail time. The Attorney General, according to aides, believed that the public disgrace of having to resign was punishment enough. Many Israelis disagreed. On TV and in newspapers, they demanded to know why Mazuz could force a Justice Minister to resign over a kiss while not holding the President to account...
...steady decline of the President's power generally. With his approval ratings at historic lows, Bush didn't have to worry about spending political capital by making an unpopular decision, one that opened the way to questions about buying Libby's silence. If he let Libby go to jail, his critics still wouldn't love him. And what support he continues to command comes mostly from conservatives who were strongly in favor of his helping Libby. Just days after the defeat of the White House--backed immigration bill, to which conservatives were cool or worse, the Libby commutation could...
USAGE Commutations often have qualifiers. Nixon reduced Jimmy Hoffa's jail term in 1971, provided the Teamster didn't run the union for 10 years...
...been a lot of questions about intervening at points along the way," said one senior White House official, "And the President had always been clear that he was not going to act until he needed to. And that came at the point when Libby was going to serve jail time...
...Scotland Yard's Deputy Assistant Commissioner Peter Clarke earlier stated that the attacks "resonated with previous plots." Last year, a British-born Muslim convert named Dhiren Barot was sentenced to 40 years in jail for plotting attacks on the U.K. A 39-page list of possible targets and methods that Barot prepared for his al-Qaeda contacts included a plot he dubbed the Gas Limos Project. This proposed using propane gas cylinders and fuel to turn stretch limos into mobile bombs that could then be left in parking lots underneath key buildings...