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...abortion debate is a shape-shifter, its contours twisted by politics, culture, timing and the very language pollsters use when they ask people how they feel. So when the folks at Gallup announced that, for the first time, more Americans are pro-life than pro-choice, there were all kinds of ways to misunderstand what that means...
President Bush established the secretive commissions to try accused terrorists two months after the Sept. 11 attacks, though only three defendants have been prosecuted amid legal challenges and repeated setbacks in the U.S. Supreme Court. Obama explicitly criticized the commissions during the presidential campaign and suspended their use on his second day in office, the same day he ordered the Guantanamo Bay detention facility closed within the year. But privately White House officials worried about winning conventional convictions against some "high-value" defendants, including accused Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. (The standard for admitting evidence is more rigorous...
...statement announcing his reversal, President Obama stressed the reconfigured commissions will increase legal protections for defendants, such as barring information obtained through brutal interrogations and limiting the use of hearsay evidence. "This is the best way to protect our country, while upholding our deeply held values," Obama said on May 15. Many Republicans and some Democrats applauded the move, insisting that some terror suspects are simply too dangerous to be tried in open court with the full protections afforded American citizens. "I give them great credit for coming to their senses," said David Rivkin, a former Reagan administration lawyer...
...Washington convened a precursor to a military commission - a board of inquiry - in 1780 to try a British major accused of conspiring with Benedict Arnold during the Revolutionary War. The board recommended to Washington that Major John Andre be executed, and he was promptly hanged. Military commissions' first documented use came during the Mexican-American War in 1847, when the U.S. Army occupied large areas of Mexico that lacked a working court system. Since then they've been used to prosecute thousands in the U.S. and abroad during the Civil War, Reconstruction, the Spanish-American War and World...
More Free Nights. They may not have anniversaries to celebrate, but plenty of other hotels are offering the opportunity to earn free nights. With InterContinental Hotels' Biggest Free Nights, Priority Club members can stay any two nights from May 4 to July 3 and get a free night to use from July 3 to Dec. 26. You can earn up to four free nights and use them at any one of the group's 4,000 hotels around the world. Register for the promotion here...