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...advised Senators and their staffs on the matter, "The White House now knows they were operating under pretty bad legal advice from the Justice Department," which told them Bush had near-limitless authority when acting as commander-in-chief during times of war. "They're worried about some rogue prosecutor in the future who might hold specific individuals responsible," Malinowski says. Privately, some senior GOP senators say they believe that is what is motivating the White House resistance to the McCain/Warner/Graham bill...
...Flanders region of Belgium. According to police, most of the detainees are soldiers believed to belong to a faction of the far-right Flemish group Blood and Honour. Raids on army barracks and homes found weapons including a homemade bomb, rifles and land-mine detonators. The federal prosecutor's office described the suspects as people "who clearly express themselves through racism, xenophobia, Holocaust denial, anti-Semitism and neo-Nazism...
...Former federal prosecutor Michael Wynne argues that the proposed law is a good idea. The rationale for abating convictions is that a defendant who dies does not have a chance to participate in the appeals process. But there is no new testimony during appeals, Wynne says - mostly reviewing written records and trial transcripts. "It's not as if the defendant himself is essential," Wynne says. "It's an aggressive move. It's not mean-spirited. They're just trying to preserve the conviction...
...substitution of capital for management. The $455 million, 63,400-seat arena, designed by architect Peter Eisenman with HOK Sport and featuring the only retractable playing field in North America, is expected to do more than fatten the family's net worth. According to Michael Bidwill, a former federal prosecutor and son of owner Bill Bidwill, who now runs the team's day-to-day business operations, "There is a direct correlation between revenue from new stadiums and being able to compete. The teams with new stadiums are consistently in the play-offs...
Bush, who relies on gut instinct as much as résumé for personnel decisions, likes having the blunt, 5-ft. former Mob prosecutor at his side. A powerful sign of the respect Bush's loyalty to Townsend commands--or perhaps an indication of lingering Administration defensiveness over her appointment--is that heavyweights like Rice and White House chief of staff Josh Bolten praised Townsend in phone calls to TIME arranged by her office. The President, says Bolten, "likes her competence, her crispness and her ability to give him the straight scoop." Bush has entrusted her with, among other things...