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...defensive stand before the 9/11 intelligence committees. In fact, he says he is "happy" to face the scrutiny of congressional investigators, a pronouncement that jibes nicely with his live television appearance last week, during which he outlined plans to restructure the FBI. He also offered a simple and direct mea culpa, referring specifically to Coleen Rowley's now-famously scathing letter, which criticized Mueller specifically and the FBI culture in general...
...article spoke of the real outrage: the continued cover-up by church authorities to protect their own misguided interests. One wonders how a prelate could sleep at night, never mind continue to administer the sacraments, after transferring a child molester to a whole new group of unsuspecting children. A mea culpa from these leaders is long overdue--as is God's vengeance. BOB METHELIS Montville...
...NETHERLANDS Mea Culpa An independent report into the 1995 Srebrenica massacre blamed Bosnian Serb forces led by General Ratko Mladic for the deaths of up to 8,000 Muslim men, but it also strongly criticized Dutch peacekeeping forces and political leaders. After a few days' reflection, the entire Dutch government resigned. Prime Minister Wim Kok said the international community "is anonymous and cannot take responsibility in the name of the victims and survivors of Srebrenica...
First, the institutional church has to acknowledge the magnitude of the damage. The Pope's cryptic paragraphs at the end of his Holy Thursday letter to priests hardly constituted a ringing mea culpa. At a stiff press conference afterward, Dario Cardinal Castrillon Hoyos, a contender for the next pontificate, short-circuited the avalanche of questions with a sample of Vatican stonewalling, sternly defending current policy. Citing the "serious and severe" internal rules the church has applied to pedophile priests, the Cardinal looked up from his text and asked what other institutions had such guidelines. "I would like to know...
...occupied the Palestinian territories—to two Holocaust survivors who instilled in him and his two siblings “ambition, but not for anything in particular.” The result is that Keret has an ultra-orthodox sister who lives in Jerusalem’s Mea Shearim with nine children and a brother who is the head of Israel’s marijuana legalization movement...