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Anthrax investigation timeline
The Associated Press2001 October: Anthrax is mailed to lawmakers on Capitol Hill and members of the news media in New York and Florida. By November, five people are dead and 17 others sickened. The victims include postal workers and others who came into contact with the...Tags: Newspapers, Hospitals and Clinics, Periodicals, Anthrax, New York City
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Schiavo case turned conservatism on its head
NOW THAT Terri Schiavo has gone -- not peacefully, but as a national spectacle -- to her maker, we are left to ponder how conservatives trashed and savaged what was supposedly their own philosophy. Whatever happened to the conservatives who were supposed...Tags: Regional Authority, George Bush, Murder, Court Administration, Local Government
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Sniper defense dwells on minutiae
sun reporterYellow legal pad in hand, convicted killer John Allen Muhammad pointedly questions a Virginia police officer who has identified Muhammad as the man he stopped behind the wheel of a Chevrolet Caprice, and released, during a police dragnet near an Oct. 9,...Tags: Manassas (Manassas, Virginia), Central Intelligence Agency, Atlantic Ocean, University of Maryland, College Park, Witnesses
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CIA contract worker charged in prison abuse
Sun National StaffFederal authorities brought the first civilian criminal case involving prison abuses in Iraq and Afghanistan yesterday, charging a former CIA contract worker in the beating death of an Afghan prisoner who died three days after he voluntarily surrendered...Tags: Central Intelligence Agency, Civil Rights, Armed Forces, Assault, Trials
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Senators defeat subpoena attempt
Associated PressWASHINGTON - Republicans lined up yesterday to defeat an attempt by Senate Judiciary Committee Democrats to subpoena Justice Department memos on the use of torture in the interrogations of suspected terrorists. But Sen. Orrin G. Hatch, a Utah...Tags: Arlen Specter, Republican Party, U.S. Department of Defense, Elections, Dianne Feinstein
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Three men linked to Hamas indicted
Times Staff WriterWASHINGTON - A senior Hamas leader and two other activists were indicted on charges that they ran a racketeering enterprise over 15 years that used U.S. bank accounts to finance the militant Palestinian group, the Justice Department announced yesterday....Tags: Gaza Strip, Colleges and Universities, Howard University, Organized Crime, Defendants
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Ashcroft says president never authorized torture
Sun National StaffWASHINGTON - Attorney General John Ashcroft testified yesterday that he knows of no order given by President Bush that would violate international treaties against torture. His statement follows reports that lawyers working under Ashcroft wrote memos that...Tags: George Bush, Heads of State, Illinois, Abusive Behavior, Prisons
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Soldiers tried to cover up alleged abuses, files reveal
Sun National StaffAmerican soldiers accused of detainee abuses tried to cover up their actions in at least two cases, allegedly threatening an Iraqi man with indefinite detention unless he recanted his claims of severe beatings and destroying photographs showing mock...Tags: Armed Forces, Civil Rights, Human Rights, Firearms, FBI
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Federal judge dismisses same-sex marriage lawsuit in Fla.
Associated PressTAMPA, Fla. - In what is believed to be the first ruling of its kind, a judge upheld yesterday the federal law letting states ban same-sex marriages, dismissing a lawsuit by two women seeking to have their Massachusetts marriage recognized here....Tags: Civil Rights, Protestantism, Trials, Laws, Judges
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Timeline of events in CIA leak case
The Associated PressA timeline of events leading up to the conviction of former White House aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby on charges stemming from the leak of CIA operative Valerie Plame's name. 2003: - Jan. 28: President Bush asserts in his State of the Union address:...Tags: Valerie Plame Wilson, Central Intelligence Agency, Periodicals, Robert Novak, Lewis Libby
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Down in flames
Sun Movie CriticIn the rare funny bit from Fahrenheit 9/11, writer-director Michael Moore plays the song "Believe It or Not" - the theme to the '80s-TV superhero satire The Greatest American Hero - over the sight of George W. Bush's "Mission Accomplished" moment on...Tags: Arts, Republican Party, International Military Interventions, Bars and Clubs, Cinema Industry
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Fighting terrorism requires law changes
LAST WEEK'S terrorist attacks caught the United States painfully unprepared. Whether the carnage was preventable or not, this tragedy -- and the glaring intelligence failures that let it happen -- must not be used as a pretext for measures that endanger...Tags: Emergency Planning, National Security, World War II (1939-1945), Terrorism, Lawyers
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