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...executive and judicial branches to ignore the Bill of Rights. He has worked to close immigration hearings in order to keep due process from getting in the way of justice (read: arbitrary imprisonment of men of Middle Eastern descent). To that end, he has not only used every pretext possible to detain people without burdening the judiciary with the added task of charging these people with a crime, but he also created military tribunals in the event that the court system might make the mistake of respecting the rights of the defendant...
...pointed out that foxes will still have to be killed as agricultural pests. That is not only appalling, but also downright absurd. Foxes deserve the same protection as the creatures highlighted in TIME's recent cover story "Saving the Big Cats." The big cats too are killed under the pretext of being pests. Matthias Geiger Birchwil, Switzerland
...that they would immediately embrace the U.S. and send their troops to Iraq? Kerry is either incredibly naive or misleading his constituency. Charles G. Kormendy Frankfurt The upcoming U.S. presidential election is a matter of interest to the world outside America. Recent events have shown that, under the pretext of the war on terrorism, the President can determine the fate of many smaller countries. The international community realizes the danger of allowing one country unlimited discretion in its foreign policy. For that reason, all Americans have a duty to themselves and the rest of the world to exercise democracy...
...This being the same Robert Novak through whom senior administration officials allegedly named Valerie Plame, the wife of Ambassador Joseph Wilson of Niger uranium probe fame, as a CIA agent.) Novak says his administration sources tell him that Iraq's election, scheduled for January, will be used as a pretext for withdrawing, even though the insurgency will still be raging and civil war will result. While some of what Novak's sources have told him sounds farfetched, there's a soundness to his overall point about an early departure, and a retreat from the neo-conservative dream about remaking...
...first confronted him with evidence that he had given classified material to AIPAC, one of Washington's most powerful lobbying organizations. Israel and AIPAC have denied the spy allegations; neither the Pentagon nor Franklin would comment. The law-enforcement officials say Franklin was persuaded in recent weeks to make "pretext calls"--scripted conversations monitored by FBI agents and designed to tease out incriminating evidence about other suspects. It was within this time frame that Franklin approached the ex-I.N.C. official who spoke to TIME...