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While the carefully worded agreement was not a complete surprise to legal scholars who doubted the strength of the case against Lindh, the timing of the deal stunned even Judge Ellis. He was ready to begin a series of hearings meant to decide whether to suppress incriminating statements Lindh gave FBI agents and a CNN reporter after his capture last December. Lindh had pleaded not guilty to a 10-count indictment, but he hardly denied one of the primary charges--that he assisted the Taliban by willingly fighting on the front lines. To him, say his lawyers and relatives, taking...
...nonlethal-weapons programs are drawing their own fire, mostly from human-rights activists who contend that the technologies being developed will be deployed to suppress dissent and that they defy international weapons treaties. Through public websites, interviews with defense researchers and data obtained in a series of Freedom of Information Act requests filed by watchdog groups, TIME has managed to peer into the Pentagon's multimillion-dollar program and piece together this glimpse of the gentler, though not necessarily kinder, arsenal of tomorrow...
...nonlethal-weapons programs are drawing their own fire, mostly from human-rights activists who contend that the technologies being developed will be deployed to suppress dissent and that they defy international weapons treaties. Through public websites, interviews with defense researchers and data obtained in a series of Freedom of Information Act requests filed by watchdog groups, TIME has managed to peer into the Pentagon's multimillion-dollar program and piece together this glimpse of the gentler, though not necessarily kinder, arsenal of tomorrow...
...RELIGIOUS SURVEILLANCE] Agents can enter any public place for the purpose of gathering information about the possibility of criminal activity, as long as they don't inhibit or suppress free speech or compile unnecessary files on First Amendment activities...
While HUPD spokesperson Steven G. Catalano said he could not comment on the specifics of the case, he said it was not unusual for a defense attorney to attempt to suppress a client’s statement...