Word: romero
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...officer in Iraq, of his decision to withhold the photos. U.S. lawyers are expected to appeal the case to the Supreme Court. The ACLU was not pleased. "The Obama Administration's adoption of the stonewalling tactics and opaque policies of the Bush administration," executive director Anthony Romero said, "flies in the face of the President's stated desire to restore the rule of law, to revive our moral standing in the world and to lead a transparent government...
...with reporting by William Lee Adams / London, Ershad Mahmud / Islamabad and Frances Romero / New York
...devils, despite their terrors, have sentimental value to the locals. "Look at the city, it looks like Miami," says bus user Agustin Romero, 26, as he leans against the window and points up at the shimmering glass towers of downtown Panama. "But you don't see these buses in Miami." And getting rid of the demon buses has become an infernal task for the government. The current administration's plan to indemnify bus owners $25,000 each to remove their buses from the road and replace them with modern new buses got tangled up in conflicts of interests that made...
...heated issue, not surprisingly, didn't see it that way. "Torture is a crime, and we are hopeful that President Obama's comments signal a new acknowledgment of the need for criminal investigations of those who authorized, legally justified and carried out these unlawful acts," said Anthony Romero, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union. "Accountability is not retribution; it is justice." Republicans professed to be perplexed. "We're sort of interested to know what is the policy or the position of the Administration," said Senate GOP leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, "because now it seems to be somewhat...
...Within just one full day in office, the new President issued a blistering array of orders reversing the policies of George W. Bush - on harsh interrogation techniques, on access to government information and on Guantánamo, which he announced he would close. "A giant step forward," hailed Anthony Romero, the executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU...