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There are hard legal cases, and there are high-profile legal cases, but the prosecution of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed may turn out to be one of the hardest high-profile cases ever. Attorney General Eric Holder announced Friday that Mohammed, the confessed architect of the Sept. 11 attacks who was waterboarded 183 times in U.S. custody in March 2003, will be put on trial in the Southern District of New York along with four other Sept. 11 plotters. Between the imperative of bringing an alleged mass murderer to justice and the challenge of overcoming evidence tainted by torture, the case...
...Shut up! He said what?" - On hearing John McCain observe that "the fundamentals of the economy are strong" on Sept. 15, 2008 - the day Lehman Brothers collapsed. (New York Times...
Just weeks after he was sworn in as U.S. Attorney for New York's Southern District, Preet Bharara is being put to the test. U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder's announcement that self-professed Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four alleged co-conspirators will be tried in a Manhattan federal court makes Bharara the man responsible for bringing an unabashed terrorist to justice. Bharara, who drew plaudits for his investigation into the firings of eight U.S. Attorneys under President George W. Bush, has burnished his reputation by prosecuting organized crime figures and white collar criminals. His newest assignment...
After all, the big Administration push has been loan modifications. Earlier this week, Treasury reported that through October more than 650,000 homeowners have received trial modifications under the government's Making Home Affordable plan. How long lasting that help will be, though, is a different question: as of Sept. 1, only 1,711 borrowers had successfully completed the trial phase and received permanent changes to their loan terms, according to a report by the Congressional Oversight Panel...
...Born Sept. 24, 1945, in Childress, Texas. Married, with four children, and lives in New Jersey. Has one child from his first marriage...