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...That's why the government was able to scan the faces of fans at last year's Super Bowl and why it can videotape drivers to make sure they don't run a red light. "Police can take photos of people in public places," says Stanford law professor Robert Weisberg. "It can be ugly, immoral, authoritarian, but it's not unconstitutional...
Even so, Brosnahan may have a worse hand. Lindh signed a formal waiver of his right to an attorney, according to Attorney General John Ashcroft, and also verbally waived that right. "That Miranda [waiver] is likely to be very hard for [Lindh] to overcome," says Robert Weisberg, a Stanford law professor. Also, before he spoke with the FBI, Lindh voluntarily told CNN much the same story. Finally, the legal standard required to prove conspiracy "is kind of broad and vague," says Weisberg, and thus gives the edge to the prosecution. Top officials at the Justice Department are betting the matter...
Small wonder that California seethes with anger and accusations as furious consumers, power suppliers, legislators and regulators point fingers at one another. "Consumers are being asked to conserve on power, but suppliers are unwilling to give up a shred of their profits," complains Susan Weisberg, a San Francisco editor whose home office went dark for more than an hour last Thursday. In Sacramento, Republican state representative Keith Richman, a practicing physician, accuses Davis of Hamlet-like indecisiveness as the crisis worsened. "If I had stood by and watched one of my patients decline without taking action," Richman says, "I would...
...begins Jacob Weisberg's latest New York Times Magazine feature on Senator Moynihan, an article whose depth of thought and research is matched only by its extraordinary levels of personal attack. The quote above is representative: Perhaps the issue of legislation can be verified, but notes on the Senator's thoughts on his own behavior represent significant presumptions for a reader of any political leaning...
...Weisberg's feature is a particularly pointed example of a genre of opinion journalism which has reached its height in the modern press' critique of government in general and the portrayal of our 2000 presidential candidates in particular. Under the guise of determining the candidates' "character," article upon article has forgone empirical defense or attack for a far more troubling series of far-reaching generalizations about the candidate as a human being...