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News US military will not classify parts of new interrogation field manual, officials say
US military will not classify parts of new interrogation field manual, officials say
James M Yoch Jr
June 13, 2006 07:33:00 pm

The new US Army Field Manual on Intelligence Interrogation will not contain a classified section, despite warnings from some in the Department of Defense that disclosing certain techniques would undermine the ability of interrogators to...

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News Former Atlanta mayor sentenced to over two years in prison for tax evasion
Former Atlanta mayor sentenced to over two years in prison for tax evasion
James M Yoch Jr
June 13, 2006 07:09:00 pm

Former Atlanta mayor Bill Campbell was sentenced to 2 1/2 years imprisonment Tuesday for three tax evasion charges on which he was convicted in March . Judge Richard Story of the US District Court for the...

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News Guantanamo suicides spark renewed calls for release of Saudi detainees
Guantanamo suicides spark renewed calls for release of Saudi detainees
James M Yoch Jr
June 11, 2006 05:24:00 pm

The suicides of three detainees , two Saudis and a Yemeni, at Guantanamo Bay on Saturday prompted Saudi Interior Ministry officials to renew calls on Sunday for all Saudi prisoners to be released from the...

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Specter demands administration cooperation in drafting domestic spying rules
James M Yoch Jr
June 11, 2006 04:46:00 pm

US Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter (R-PA) said on Sunday that he plans to demand hearings and issue subpoenas for telephone company executives to discuss the program of disclosing public calling records to the...

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ABA calls for death penalty moratorium in Alabama
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June 11, 2006 04:02:00 pm

The American Bar Association death penalty assessment team recommended a moratorium on the death penalty in Alabama in a report released Sunday that cited major flaws in the state's administration...

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Marine says Haditha killings were unintentional, rules of engagement followed
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June 11, 2006 03:30:00 pm

US Marine Staff Sergeant Frank Wuterich , commander of the platoon implicated in the deaths of two dozen Iraqi civilians in Haditha , told his attorney that his unit followed the rules of engagement and did not...

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More details of alleged Canada terror plot emerge after court hearing
James M Yoch Jr
June 6, 2006 07:19:00 pm

Fifteen of the 17 Canadian terror suspects arrested Friday on suspicion of planning attacks in southern Ontario and Toronto appeared in court in Brampton, Ontario, near Toronto Tuesday. Although an eight-page document prepared by Crown prosecutors detailing...

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Egypt extends detentions of pro-reform demonstrators
James M Yoch Jr
June 6, 2006 05:35:00 pm

Prosecutors in Egypt on Tuesday added 15 days to the detention time for 185 people who have participated in pro-reform demonstrations since April. All but 21 of the detainees are members of the Muslim Brotherhood [movement...

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Colorado Supreme Court sustains assault weapons ban in Denver
James M Yoch Jr
June 5, 2006 08:18:00 pm

A ban on assault weapons in the city of Denver was affirmed by operation of law on Monday when the Colorado Supreme Court deadlocked in a 3-3 vote with one judge abstaining...

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Padilla says FBI evidence against him illegally obtained
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June 5, 2006 07:52:00 pm

A lawyer for terror suspect Jose Padilla has filed a motion to suppress evidence he claims the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) obtained illegally from two sources, one which...

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Maurice Papon convicted of war crimes

On April 2, 1998, Maurice Papon was convicted of war crimes for his role in deporting French Jews to concentration camps during the Nazi occupation of France. Under German occupation, Papon served as the supervisor of the Service for Jewish Questions in Bordeaux from which he collaborated with the Nazi S.S. and oversaw the deportation of 1,560 Jewish men, women, and children to concentration camps.

Read an biography of Maurice Papon from the BBC.

Massachusetts enacted Vietnam antiwar bill

On April 2, 1970, the Governor of Massachusetts signed into law an anti-Vietnam War bill providing that no inhabitant of Massachusetts inducted into or serving in the armed forces "shall be required to serve" abroad in an armed hostility that had not been declared a war by Congress under Article I, Section 8, clause 11 of the United States Constitution.

Supporters of the legislation hoped that the US Supreme Court would seize on the obvious conflict that the bill created between state and federal law and would rule on the constitutionality of the Vietnam War itself, but the Court refused to exercise original jurisdiction, forcing the case into the lower federal courts. See Anthony D'Amato, Massachusetts In The Federal Courts: The Constitutionality Of The Vietnam War [PDF], 4 Journal of Law Reform (1970).

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