Word: lawyering
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...earlier life, she was a government lawyer in Washington...
...Qahtani has never been charged with a crime, has no lawyer and remains in detention at Guantánamo. But his case is already the subject of several probes in Washington. A year ago, a senior FBI counterterrorism official wrote the Pentagon complaining of abuses that FBI agents said they witnessed at the naval base. The agents reported seeing or hearing of "highly aggressive interrogation techniques." The letter singles out the treatment of al-Qahtani in September and October of 2002--before the log obtained by TIME begins--saying a dog was used "in an aggressive manner to intimidate Detainee...
...Justice Department officials. Under the racketeering statutes cited in the case, the government could not recommend a penalty for any past wrongdoing and instead was restricted to proposals geared to prevent and restrain future action. Prosecutors scrambled to adjust their case. The solution, based on recommendations by longtime Justice lawyers, was to ask the court to demand an initial $10 billion payment, then appoint a monitor to review the behavior of the industry and recommend a suitable penalty every year until the cigarette makers stop their misdeeds. Ted Wells, a lawyer for Philip Morris USA, calls the plan a "last...
...freshman devoted most of his January reading period to searching for a lawyer...
...eventually found prominent internet lawyer Terry Gross through the Electronic Frontier Foundation, an organization which advocates the protection of civil liberties as related to technology and the internet...