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Thomas said she has suffered harassment since announcing her candidacy for treasurer of the HUCTW. The University released a memo at the beginning of the month entitled “Policy on Conflict of Interest and Commitment,” which all employees were asked to sign and which threatened termination if an employee was found to violate it. The memo included an example of a violation in which an employee working on a fundraising event might spend three weeks—the same period during which Thomas was allowed to campaign—making phone calls during business hours...
Thomas and Carens said the memo was aimed at stifling union participation, though the memo seemed to guard itself against being anti-union...
...example, Gonzales put his name on the January 2002 draft of a legal memo intended for Bush that argued that al-Qaeda and Taliban fighters captured in Afghanistan were not prisoners of war but enemy combatants who had no legal rights under the Geneva Convention, parts of which the memo derided as "quaint." Gonzales contended that "the ability to quickly obtain information from captured terrorists and their sponsors in order to avoid further atrocities against American civilians ... renders obsolete Geneva's strict limitations on the questioning of enemy prisoners...
Gonzales later requested a legal opinion from a Justice Department agency that ultimately argued that subjecting suspected al-Qaeda terrorists in captivity to extreme stress "may be justified." When abuses at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison came to light last spring, some Administration critics cited that memo as the legal backbone for the harsher treatment of prisoners, which is now the subject of court-martial proceedings...
...office about Parmalat's Brazilian accounts that the matter went all the way up to Jim Copeland, then Deloitte's chief executive in New York City. "Sorry to trouble you this morning in a moment while you are clearly busy with other matters," Milan partner Mamoli wrote in a memo to Copeland, "but ... a major issue has now emerged." Olivetti's objections were waved off and he was eventually taken off the Parmalat account. Deloitte insists that it behaved properly; it points out that the investigation of Parmalat began only after Deloitte Italy, in October 2003, drew attention to irregularities...