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...When both the Attorney General and the SFO's Wardle resisted BAE's request for lenience, the Saudis turned up the heat. In 2006, the judgment states, Prince Bandar bin Sultan, the former Saudi Ambassador to Washington, warned Jonathan Powell, Tony Blair's then-chief of staff, to shelve the investigation. Failure to do so, the Prince threatened, would weaken intelligence cooperation and wreck a $40 billion deal for BAE to supply Eurofighter Typhoon jets to the Saudis. Soon after government ministers made Wardle aware of the threat, the SFO's boss agreed to drop the case. "The Director...
...torture debate has become. Long before Bush Administration legal memoranda made techniques like waterboarding permissible for CIA detainees, many in Congress and the legal community assumed such methods were illegal under international agreements and U.S. criminal law. "There really wasn't any ambiguity in terms of waterboarding," explains Jonathan Turley, a professor at George Washington University Law School...
...Jonathan Adler...
...their Ivy League debuts, their teammates rallied around them.“I remember when we played our first Ivy League matches,” Kumar said. “We were so nervous that we could hardly hold our rackets.”—Staff writer Jonathan B. Steinman can be reached at steinman@fas.harvard.edu...
...side, sophomore Robert Kenney’s 3:59.46 finish in the 1500-meter run earned him a fourth-place nod, and classmate Stephen Chester notched the fifth spot in the 5000-meter run with a time of 15:53.61. In the men’s high jump, sophomore Jonathan Brito cleared the 1.79-meter bar for fifth best, and freshman John McVey passed 4.12 meters in the pole vault to tie for third. Co-captain Alex Lewis finished fifth in pole vault, clearing 3.97 meteres.SAM HOWELL INVITATIONALTen men and 11 women participated in the Sam Howell Invitational...