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...best evidence of unlawfulness and intent of malice is the overbroad scope,” said Wendy J. Murphy, an attorney for SNAP and a visiting scholar at Harvard Law School...
...Indonesian President picked a bad week to fence-sit. Singapore's announcement that 19 of the 21 Singaporean Muslims arrested last month have ties to the regional extremist group Jemaah Islamiah (JI), an affiliate of al-Qaeda, were a reminder that the scope and reach of terror remain formidable and potentially lethal. Malaysia and the Philippines have taken action against militants too. Teamwork, it would seem, is the only way to counter such threats. Indonesia, accused by nations around the region of harboring terrorists and under pressure from the U.S. for not fighting its share of the battle, looks increasingly...
...assistant professor of law who has not been involved in the Lambda discussions, said he disagreed with the military’s current interpretation of the Solomon Amendment, which mandates that the “degree of access by military recruiters is at least equal in quality and scope to that afforded to other employers...
...human rights defied its sovereignty and undermined its ability to control its citizens. An international system of trade and finance removed its control over national currencies. Global communi- cations threatened its national cultures. Transnational threats such as aids or the depletion of the ozone layer were beyond the scope of any nation-state to control. And the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction rendered hopelessly inadequate the notion of defending national borders from invading armies...
...fell, Congress passed the U.S.A. Patriot Act, which was designed "[t]o deter and punish terrorist acts in the United States and around the world, to enhance law enforcement investigatory tools, and for other purposes." The legislation gave Bush and Attorney General John Ashcroft a license to expand the scope of their authority, and they have used their new powers, plus a few old ones, to detain more than 1,200 people in the U.S., Americans and foreign nationals, in the name of the war against terrorism. Most were picked up on immigration violations, their hearings closed to the press...