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...Though he had apprehensions about moving to the East Coast, Chen was “sold” when he visited as a pre-frosh...
...shows that it is indeed an important prototype. Six years after 9/11, the U.S. government has begun to settle on a strategy for finding and stopping potential homegrown terrorists before they strike. Fort Dix offers a case study of this new and sometimes precarious method. The model is called pre-emptive prosecution, and like other pre-emptive strikes of late, it is risky. It means relying on often unreliable informants to infiltrate insular communities, and it means making arrests before anything close to a terrorist attack actually happens. The process sometimes ends with a trial but not necessarily a conviction...
...Sometimes, though, it seems as if the government is trying to do everything: gather intelligence, pre-empt a terrorist attack and send people to prison, even if the evidence is thin. Investigations seem to grow into case files, which lead to press conferences. "From the perspective of the investigators," says Jenkins, the Rand expert, "the more you invest in an investigation, you create your own momentum. You become convinced you've got a case...
...Pre-emptive prosecutions come with secondary risks. When they work, they may be more likely to put innocent people in jail - because they are built not around what men do but around what's in their hearts. When they don't work, when the jury won't buy the legitimate claims of a dodgy informant, dangerous people can go free. In San Francisco, the DEA lost a felony drug-trafficking case in October after the informant admitted to smoking crack during the investigation and then, on the witness stand, fell asleep - seven times...
Former Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif tried - and, as expected, failed - to get past a line of some 300 riot policemen in Islamabad on Thursday. In what may be a pre-election publicity stunt, Sharif had been trying to visit the deposed Supreme Court Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry, who has been held under house arrest since President Pervez Musharraf instituted emergency rule on November 3. While hundreds of supporters chanted his name, police turned Sharif back at the concrete and barbed wire barricades. Undeterred, he addressed the crowd, saying, "I have come here to express solidarity with the Chief Justice...