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...positives have come out this, says Conroy, who has gone back to making a living as a lawyer in Los Angeles. "The military patrols have cut down on carjackings and their presence has slowed real estate sales," she says. "You can thank the narco wars for preventing more Americans from losing all their money in bad Mexican real estate deals...
...Searching a backpack is dramatically different than asking a student to take their clothes off.' GRAHAM BOYD, ACLU lawyer, on the Supreme Court case about the 2003 strip-search of Savana Reding, then 13, by school officials looking for prescription ibuprofen...
Leff, the visiting HLS professor, said that while he did not have enough understanding of Rose’s specific concerns to make an informed judgment, “a lawyer asked by an auditor about the legal authority for the treatment of a transaction should be able to give at least the legal reasoning under which the treatment is proper...
...week) led to the capture of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed - the self-proclaimed architect of the 9/11 attacks. His capture, in turn, helped prevent future terror strikes, they maintain; Mohammed himself, the memos revealed, was waterboarded a startling 183 times in March 2003 (a May 2005 memo from a CIA lawyer said waterboarding could be used on a detainee up to 12 times daily for as long as 40 seconds per event). Then-CIA director George Tenet, in his 2007 memoir, says that tough interrogation of al-Qaeda members - and documents found on them, he is careful to add - thwarted more...
...While much of the controversy over interrogation and detention practices at Guantánamo has centered on the CIA, the SASC report puts the spotlight firmly on the Pentagon - specifically on former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, his DOD lawyer Jim Haynes, his policy chief Douglas Feith, Guantánamo commanders Major General Michael Dunleavy and Major General Geoffrey Miller, and a raft of other DOD officials. It offers a detailed account purporting to show how these officials - some of them knowingly, others unwittingly - allowed SERE techniques to be used for interrogation. It suggests, too, that many SERE experts and military...