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...Resettlement countries are becoming more selective in who they take, from where, and on whose terms." Many of those taken to Nauru in 2001 and found to be refugees were accepted by New Zealand, but in Wellington, a spokesman for Immigration Minister David Cunliffe says Australia has made no request for talks on a future resettlement deal. He might expect a call soon...
...February the FBI contacted Anderson's family to request that agents be allowed to search his files for any classified documents. The bureau says any such papers in the 187 boxes of old material belong to the Federal Government and not to Anderson's heirs, who currently have them, or to George Washington University (G.W.U.), where they're headed to be cataloged and stored. Kevin Anderson, one of the reporter's nine children, says the family was willing to cooperate with the FBI until agents made clear that they wanted to review every document and pull any they believed were...
...domestic eavesdropping program run by the National Security Agency. Last month the National Archives halted an effort by the U.S. intelligence community to make thousands of declassified documents secret once again. To Tom Blanton, head of the G.W.U.-affiliated National Security Archive, which monitors government secrecy, the FBI's request to scrub Anderson's files "looks like another front in the government-wide effort to squash dissent...
...return an e-mail request for comment yesterday...
...They gave up their sit-in Thursday afternoon at the request of Anderson's parents to prepare for a march. The Rev. Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton spoke to crowd of about 1,500 at that rally in front of the the state capitol building Friday morning. Both demanded the state complete its investigation and punish those responsible. They later met privately with Gov. Jeb Bush...