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With his administration on the brink of a sweeping fiscal review that could lead to layoffs, Faculty of Arts and Sciences Dean Michael D. Smith will host a town hall meeting today, discussing the state of the Faculty’s finances before an unprecedented group of stakeholders. In lieu of the regular Faculty meeting that had been scheduled for today, Smith will discuss the budgetary challenges facing the Faculty before opening the floor for questions from professors, staff, and selected student leaders gathered in Sanders Theatre, according to FAS spokesman Robert P. Mitchell. The town hall meeting comes...
...four associates, which includes charges of racketeering conspiracy, extortion conspiracy, attempted extortion, making false statements and wire fraud, effectively paints the impeached ex-governor as the head of a vast criminal enterprise. "With RICO, these defendants are seen as no better than a street gang, common thugs," says Ronald Smith, a former prosecutor and current law professor at John Marshall Law School who has taught federal criminal law for 15 years...
...case is. The prosecution, for instance, decided not to seek charges against Blagojevich's wife Patti - a fact that surprised many, since she too is named throughout the charges. "It could be seen as the government going too far even if they do have the goods on her," notes Smith, who adds that indicting Patti Blagojevich could leave their children with two jailed parents. "You have to draw the line somewhere, and perhaps dragging in the wife would bring up the sympathy factor that could taint the whole case...
Mohamed's lawyer, Clive Stafford Smith, says that to evaluate his client's claims - which could expand the investigation to include similar allegations by fellow Gitmo alumni - police will need access to records and personnel from the British intelligence community as well as from ministries with oversight of the security services and perhaps even to the pinnacles of decision-making in Westminster - and Washington. "It would be very surprising if the decision [on Mohamed] was not taken at a high level. The question is how high," says Stafford Smith, who is also the director of the legal charity Reprieve. During...
...this February, failed in U.K. court bids to obtain evidence about the U.S. role in his treatment. The documents were withheld on the basis that disclosure would endanger future intelligence sharing by America and Britain. Campaigners see no discernible shift in this stance since President Obama took power. Stafford Smith says there is "reticence in the Obama administration to turn over all these stones." The CIA declined comment on the Scotland Yard probe...