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Those numbers certainly appear to go against the tenor of what the agency had told the OLC when it sought a legal opinion on the use of waterboarding. An Aug 1, 2002, memo by Assistant Attorney General Jay Bybee says the CIA had "indicated that these acts will not be used with substantial repetition, so that there is no possibility that severe physical pain could arise from such repetition. Accordingly, we conclude that these acts neither separately nor as part of a course of conduct would inflict severe physical pain or suffering with the meaning of the statute." (Read "Bush...
...leaders like Chávez. It was an appropriate gift for Obama - not because he's clueless about that manera de pensar, but because he proved at the Trinidad summit to be the first U.S. President to get it. "We have at times been disengaged, and at times we sought to dictate our terms," to Latin America, he told the gathering. "But I pledge to you that we seek an equal partnership. There is no senior partner and junior partner in our relations." (See TIME's photos of the guerrilla armies of Colombia...
During a November, 2007 visit to protesting fishermen in Britany, Sarkozy was reduced to furiously babbling as he sought to call a detractor out to insult him face to face. A year later, Sarkozy snarled "get out of here, you poor a - hole" to a man who refused to let the president shake his hand during a book fair appearance. Just hours before the now notorious Wednesday lunch, Sarkozy delivered a monumental verbal lashing to a trio of cabinet members for publicly jockeying for advancement ahead of a shake-up. Astonishingly, that demonstration of presidential butt-kicking was then recounted...
...waters they sought to protect, says Lehr, were "an El Dorado for fishing fleets of many nations." A 2006 study published in the journal Science predicted that the current rate of commercial fishing would virtually empty the world's oceanic stocks by 2050. Yet, Somalia's seas still offer a particularly fertile patch for tuna, sardines and mackerel, and other lucrative species of seafood, including lobsters and sharks. In other parts of the Indian Ocean region, such as the Persian Gulf, fishermen resort to dynamite and other extreme measures to pull in the kinds of catches that are still...
...attribute the reduced levels of violence to the control that another drug lord and paramilitary leader, Diego Fernando Murillo Bejarano, alias "Don Berna," held over the city, suppressing uprisings from other drug gangs. But in May 2008, Don Berna was arrested and extradited to the U.S. and Don Mario sought control over the monopoly held by his rival, ushering in a new wave of violence. Homicide rates in Medellin rose by 32% in 2008, according to the mayor's office...