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...that, “We need more political pressure from this country, especially from the [political] Right.” Other finalists in the investigative reporting category included Washington Post writer Dana Priest, who wrote on the secret prisons outside the U.S. that the Central Intelligence Agency used to detain and interrogate terrorist suspects. Susan Schmidt, James V. Grimaldi, and R. Jeffrey Smith, also of The Washington Post, were nominated for revealing details about lobbyist Jack Abramoff’s network and ties to then-House Majority Leader Tom Delay. Risen and Lichtblau, who beat out three more teams...
Bryan Warner, a 20-year-old history major, will attend a preliminary hearing tomorrow morning where a judge will decide whether there is enough evidence to detain him before trial...
...security of this country; the people expect me to do this; and I am going to do it." But the Supreme Court slapped Nixon's hands when he made the same point in 1972. And it slapped Bush's hands when, after 9/11, he asserted authority to indefinitely detain those he unilaterally deemed "enemy combatants"--without any court access...
...CONTROVERSY After 9/11, the Bush Administration asserted that the President had the power to name suspected terrorists captured by the U.S. "enemy combatants" without due process of law and detain them indefinitely. That designation deprives them of protections guaranteed to prisoners of war under the Geneva Conventions...
...CONTROVERSY Rice has defended rendition--the transfer of prisoners to other countries--as a useful practice when authorities cannot, for various reasons, detain, prosecute or extradite them. Critics of rendition say it is just a euphemism for outsourcing torture...