Word: terrorisms
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...From the window I saw my mother in the garden, picking aubergines for our lunch. She burst into flames." Jones' novel works in much the same way as this. With carefully chosen images and words, the reader is transported across the tyranny of time, to face a century of terror...
Even as the White House launches a media blitz to portray its controversial wiretapping program as a perfectly legal weapon in the war on terror, administration officials have begun dropping subtle hints-without explicitly saying so-that President Bush could go to Congress to seek more specific authority to listen in on U.S. citizens who are suspected of entanglement with terrorists. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales added to such speculation Tuesday by asserting during a series of television interviews that the law setting up an apparatus requiring warrants for such eavesdropping-the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or FISA-might be outmoded...
...Times-Union, lawyers for an Albany man accused of trying to sell missile launchers to terrorists asked a federal district court to dismiss the charges because evidence leading to his being targeted in an FBI sting operation was allegedly obtained by warrantless wiretapping. Gonzales was asked on CNN about terror suspects and wiretapping evidence. "I can't speak to specific cases," he said. "What I can say is we believe the program is lawful." But since not everyone sees it that way, the President might decide to seek a little extra assurance-and insurance-from Congress...
...Bush's aggressive stance came on the same day that Gen. Michael Hayden, deputy director of the new national intelligence agency and former head of the NSA, defended the controversial electronic monitoring as a perfectly legal tool in the war on terror-and one that he even suggested might have helped avert the attacks of 9/11 if it had been in place then. Both speeches come on the heels of a speech Friday by White House deputy chief of staff Karl Rove, who signaled that Republicans will use the war on terror in the midterm elections...
...January 23 news article "HLS Profs Weigh in on Targeted Killings" stated that a 2002 book by Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz "drew fire from many civil libertarians because it advocated torture of terror suspects in certain instances." While critics of Dershowitz have made those claims, the article should have noted that Dershowitz' book, "Why Terrorism Works," does not recommend torture. And Dershowitz has stated publicly, including in The Scottsman newspaper in May 2004, that he is "personally opposed to torture...