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...Senator Graham favors the modifications to the military-commission system that Obama has proposed - and he favors one more: "Let's not kid ourselves. We're handing out de facto life sentences here, and there should be some sort of civilian review." So Graham - who believes these procedures should be applied to the prisoners both at Guantánamo and in Afghanistan - has proposed a National Security Court, similar to the panel that adjudicates FISA (Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act) cases. The proceedings would be closed, but civilian judges would have top-secret clearance to review all the evidence in every...
...minutes away from me, and that was so telling, even to the point that my mother worked there. She worked there for four years as a secretary to the legal office. But I never set foot on campus. We came through, we picked her up, we left. It was sort of like another world that didn't belong to me. I didn't think about college in that sense when I was younger. So it was a very foreign place, even though it was a stone's throw. It had an impact on my life. (Watch TIME's video "Election...
...sort of started thinking through the event and thinking about how I wanted to relate to the D.C. community as well, I always thought whenever we invited somebody in, I wanted to go out to their space too. I wanted that to be a mutual exchange, that it's not just people coming here where I live but it's me going out to where they live...
...tried to do that in almost every event that we've done from, you know, the White House Kitchen Garden to whenever we go to a school and read to kids. Either their teachers or the kids will be invited back here very soon. That's sort of a theme. (See pictures of the White House kitchen...
...with women they saw on TV or saw on the news, and to have them having real conversations. Alicia Keyes, who's the idol of every single girl under 30 probably - when she came in, she literally walked around to every single table, because everybody is still a little sort of "I'm in the White House. Let me behave...