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...State Senate yesterday passed a bill that would force the Harvard University Police Department to make public its detailed incident reports, setting the stage for a fight in the House of Representatives between police watchdog groups and private colleges. If the legislation passes the House and is signed into law by Governor Mitt Romney, HUPD and other private university police forces would join state and local police in releasing their reports publicly. The bill’s success would also render moot a decision handed down by Massachusetts’ highest court in January, when the Supreme Judicial Court struck...
...action. Instead, it is likely to accelerate its own diplomatic efforts - ?playing games,? Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice called it on Sunday, after Iran offered to restore the IAEA's right to conduct snap inspections at sites not designated as part of the nuclear program, which would give the watchdog the ability to follow intelligence leads on suspected illegal nuclear activity. But "playing games" may actually be effective, for if Iran uses the deadlock to advance new compromise proposals of its own, differences between the U.S. and some of its allies could be exacerbated...
With the U.N.'s nuclear watchdog having reported on Friday that Iran has failed to meet a Security Council demand to cease uranium enrichment, the Islamic Republic ought to be feeling the heat. But if it is, Tehran certainly isn't showing...
Ahead of this week's U.N. Security Council deadline for Iran to abandon its nuclear activities and an expected report from nuclear watchdog Mohamed ElBaradei, U.S. officials have been mapping a plan to hit the defiant regime. But the attacks will be financial, not military. The U.S. and its European allies will ask the council next month for a resolution that would pave the way for political and economic sanctions. If, as expected, Russia and China threaten a veto or stall, the U.S. intends to work outside the U.N. to isolate Tehran "diplomatically and economically," Under Secretary of State Nicholas...
McCarthy was assigned to the office of CIA inspector general John Helgerson. If the allegations against her prove true, they will be especially embarrassing to the I.G., who is the agency's in-house watchdog. For McCarthy, the ramifications could go beyond losing her job. The Justice Department is pursuing an investigation into leaks about the CIA's secret detention network and could fold McCarthy's case into that inquiry. A law-enforcement official says Justice was contacted by the CIA about this case late last week...