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...detentions at Gitmo are immoral, illegal by international standards and profoundly un-American. It's time to shut down this abomination before we create even more enemies than we already have. We should try the detainees we can't immediately clear, punish the ones we convict and promptly release the rest. Any possibility of extracting useful intelligence from the detainees passed years...
...gambling excise taxes and mail fraud, aren't buying those arguments, however. "Illegal commercial gambling across state and international borders is a crime," U.S. Attorney Catherine L. Hanaway of the Eastern District of Missouri said Monday. "This indictment is but one step in a series of actions designed to punish and seize the profits of individuals who disregard federal and state laws...
...Plame and Wilson, an ex-diplomat, allege a "conspiracy" among top White House officials to punish them after Wilson exposed flaws in pre-Iraq-war intelligence. They say exposing Plame as a CIA agent jeopardized their safety and invaded their privacy...
...neighbors, telling them that he worked as a tailor--not at a police station 10 miles away. Then the second letter arrived. "Once this government falls, we will be in power. We will have your documents, your résumés, your names and your addresses. We will come and punish you," it read. Now Qasim doubts that he can keep his job, which pays about $40 a month, not a lot by Afghan standards but enough to dream about giving his two sons opportunities he never had. "If it gets any worse, I will have to leave," he says...
...from TIME. But the consensus from lawyers is that, despite Lay's conviction, the case will never be resolved. "It's discouraging and unfortunate," says former federal prosecutor Michael Wynne. "It's not as if he got away with it, of course. We have a system in place to punish people. And to redress wrongs and to try to get money back for people who have had it taken away." But a lot of former Enron employees are angry that Lay "never had to pay his dues. He is not ultimately going to be held accountable...