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Second, coercive interrogation effectively precludes later criminal prosecution. Once a confession is coerced from a suspect, it becomes extremely difficult to prove, as due process requires, that a subsequent prosecution of him is free of the fruits of that coercion. As a result, the administration is holding some suspects who clearly have joined terrorist conspiracies and might have been convicted and subjected to long prison terms, but whose prosecution has become impossible. A year ago, the CIA began openly fretting about the problem. What happens, it worried, when continuing to detain suspects without trial becomes politically untenable, but prosecuting them...
Viral videos are powerful, but that power can be a little scary. Once something goes viral, there's no way to get the genie back in the bottle, and some things go viral that shouldn't. One notorious surveillance video, still at large online, shows a suspect in a San Bernardino County, Calif., police station shooting himself in the head with a pistol. Another video shows a chubby kid waving a golf-ball retriever like a light saber. The kid, Ghyslain Raza, was 15 at the time. Three of his classmates found the footage and put it online...
...live in an America where it has become normal to consider it inherently suspect to be associated with Muslims and Arabs? Press reactions—including Harvard student publications that claim to be neutral as well as those that are “conservative”—to a recent gift supporting Islamic studies at Harvard suggest that this is indeed where we live. The headline of a recent article in the Crimson Magazine reads “No Strings Attached? A generous prince left Harvard a hefty sum. But might his ties to the Arab world affect...
...Officials decide which reporters get to ask questions at the Prime Minister's press conferences and sometimes pass over those they suspect have questions they don't want to deal with...
Shakeshaft believes much educator abuse could be prevented if schools did a better job of identifying predatory teachers. Instructors who lock classroom doors, repeatedly keep a student after school or contact him at home should be suspect. "There are a lot of signs no one recognizes because school officials have not been trained to identify them," she says. "If the teacher is highly motivated to seem cool, you should wonder why. A mature teacher doesn't focus on being cool or accepted. Her goal should be being able to reach the kids...