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...would believe it—but unless I do, why would I believe it?” exclaimed a friend of mine.Such a skeptical attitude is understandable, as it is nurtured in academia. After all, students of science conduct experiments and rely on the results in order to prove their findings; mathematicians use deductive logic to prove their theorems; humanities majors strive to include supporting evidence in their essays . Since our minds are trained from a young age to require evidence, proof, and arguments before accepting a concept, theorem, or idea as legitimate, it is natural and expected that...
...Because it couldn't prove al-Arian was "the most powerful man" in the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, as one prosecutor characterized him during the trial, or link him directly with any of the brutal killings perpetrated by PIJ, "this [was] a failed prosecution, period," al-Arian attorney Linda Moreno tells TIME. "[Former Attorney General] John Ashcroft announced the indictment three years ago on the steps of the Justice Department. Three years later, we have the Department of Justice recommending that Dr. al-Arian be sentenced to the lowest term possible and agreeing that this is not a crime of violence...
...Arizona's Democratic Governor Janet Napolitano vetoed a bill that would have increased criminal penalties and arrest powers over illegal immigrants, Georgia's governor, Republican Sonny Perdue, signed into law one of the nation's toughest. It includes provisions requiring residents who are seeking state social welfare benefits to prove their legal status, as well as mandating that the police check the legal status of everyone they arrest and alert federal authorities to any violations...
...Still, as tough as the Georgia bill is, it did ultimately include some notable exceptions. Residents will not have to prove their status to receive emergency medical care, prenatal care and immunizations of children, though cynics say that was done solely in order to withstand court challenges. The Act also targets big business, forcing employers to prove employees are legal and providing for fines if found otherwise...
Second, coercive interrogation effectively precludes later criminal prosecution. Once a confession is coerced from a suspect, it becomes extremely difficult to prove, as due process requires, that a subsequent prosecution of him is free of the fruits of that coercion. As a result, the administration is holding some suspects who clearly have joined terrorist conspiracies and might have been convicted and subjected to long prison terms, but whose prosecution has become impossible. A year ago, the CIA began openly fretting about the problem. What happens, it worried, when continuing to detain suspects without trial becomes politically untenable, but prosecuting them...