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Dems hail, Republicans bash decision to try 9/11 suspects in New York

Tue, 17 Nov, 2009

justice or acquiescing to terrorists by giving them undeserved rights and a public platform? The decision to bring Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, admitted mastermind of the September 11, 2001, attacks, and four other suspects to a New York courtroom, rather than a military tribunal, was described in nfl jerseys tark contrasts Sunday by officials on opposing sides of the political spectrum. Democrats hailed Attorney General Eric Holder's decision to try the men in a civilian court as a demonstration of America's might and moral certainty, while Republicans called it a bad idea based on politics rather than pragmatism. "We have a judicial system that's the envy of the world," Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy, D-Vermont, said on the CBS program "Face the Nation." "I don't think we should run and hide and cower. Let's use our system." But Republican Sen. Judd Gregg of New Hampshire, speaking on the CNN program "State of the Union," questioned why foreigners who allegedly are terrorists at war with the United States should be given full judicial rights of U.S. citizens. "These people are evil people," Gregg said of the defendants. "They represent a cause which wants to destroy this nation. If they have the opportunity and were to get free, they would try to destroy this country. There's no reason we should have them in the criminal justice system." Former New York Majo nike air force 1 Rudy Giuliani, considered a possible GOP presidential candidate in 2012, called military tribunals created for terrorism suspects who have been held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, a better option than a civilian court. Military tribunals are "a better choice for the government," Giuliani said on "Fox News Sunday." "This choice of New York is a better choice for the terrorists. Why would you seek to give the terrorists a better choice than you're giving the public?" In a separate interview on CNN's "State of the Union," Giuliani said a New York court trial would cause unnecessary stress and expense for the city's police force. "Anyone that tells you that this doesn't create additional security problems, of course, isn't telling you the truth," Giuliani said. "And the best indication of it is, just look at the additional security that's going to be employed when this happens. That also happens to cost millions and millions and millions of dollars." Rep. Peter Hoekstra of Michigan, the ranking Republican on the House Intelligence Committee, warned that bringing the suspects to New York raised the risk of further attacks on the United States. "Why move them into the United States while we are still under the threat from radical jihadists?" Hoekstra asked on the CBS program. However, Democratic Sen. Jack Reed of Rhode Island said on "Fox News Sunday" that scores of terrorism suspects were successfully prosecuted in civilian courts under the Bush Administration. "What was a statesmanlike Wholesale Brand clothing ecision by the Bush administration can't be a political decision by this administration," Reed said. Holder announced the decision on the trial Friday. He said he expected all five suspects to be tried together and for prosecutors to seek the death penalty. The trial would be open to the public, although some portions that deal with classified information may be closed, Holder said.

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California's higher-education debacle

Fri, 06 Nov, 2009

For nearly six years, I have served on the Board of Trustees of the California State University system -- the last two as its chairman. This experience has been more than just professional; it has Ugg Whitely Boots een a deeply personal one. With my term ending soon, I need to share my concern -- and personal pain -- that California is on the verge of destroying the very system that once made this state great. I came to California because of the education system. I grew up in Connecticut and attended college back East on partial scholarships and financial aid. I also worked part time, but by my first year of grad school, I'd maxed out my financial aid and was relying on loans that charged 14% interest. Being a lawyer had been my dream, but my wife and I could not afford for me to go to any law schools back East. I applied to UC Berkeley Law School because it was the only top law school in the U.S. that we could afford. It turned out to be the greatest education I have ever received. And I got it because the people of California -- its leaders and its taxpayers -- were willing to invest in me. For the last 20 years, since Panodra Beads graduated, I have felt a duty to pay back the people of this state. When I had to figure out where to build a practice, buy a home, raise my family and volunteer my time and energy, I chose California. I joined a small California firm -- Munger, Tolles & Olson -- and eventually became a partner. This year, American Lawyer magazine named us the No. 1 firm in the nation. That success is also California's success. It has meant millions of dollars in taxes paid to California, hundreds of thousands of hours of volunteer time donated to California, houses built and investments made in California, and hundreds of talented people attracted to work in and help California. My story is not unique. It is the story of California's rise from the 1960s to the 1990s. Millions of people stayed here and succeeded because of their California education. We benefited from the foresight of an earlier generation that recognized it had a duty to pay it forward. That was the bargain California made with us when it established the California Master Plan for Higher Education in 1960. By making California the state where every qualified and committed Ugg Ultimate Tall Braid erson can receive a low-cost and high-quality education, all of us benefit. Attracting and retaining the leaders of the future helps the state grow bigger and stronger. Economists found that for every dollar the state invests in a CSU student, it receives $4.41 in return. So as someone who has lived the California dream, there is nothing more painful to me than to see this dream dying. It is being starved to death by a public that thinks any government service -- even public education -- is not worth paying for. And by political leaders who do not lead but instead give in to our worst, shortsighted instincts. The ineffective response to the current financial crisis reflects trends that have been hurting California public education for years. To win votes, political leaders mandated long prison sentences that forced us to stop building schools and start building prisons. This has made us dumber but no safer. Leaders pandered by promising tax cuts no matter what and did not worry about how to provide basic services without that money. Those tax cuts did not make us UGG Lace-ups Boots icher; they've made us poorer. To remain in office, they carved out legislative districts that ensured we would have few competitive races and leaders with no ability or incentive to compromise. Rather than strengthening the parties, it pushed both parties to the fringes and weakened them.

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Wed, 04 Nov, 2009

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Analysis: Confronting Goldstone - a marathon, not a sprint

Fri, 16 Oct, 2009

Regardless of how the vote turns out Friday in the UN Human Rights Council - whether the Goldstone Commission Report is sent to the UN Security Council, the General Assembly, or both, and what the council's final resolution says - one thing is Panodra Jewelry certain: Goldstone is going to be with us for a long time, and the report will have significant ramifications on a wide range of issues. This issue is a marathon, not a sprint, and Israeli policy-makers will have to adjust and recalibrate depending upon developments over which they have little control. For instance, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu hoped - and actively lobbied - to ensure the report stayed in Geneva. Those efforts appear to have failed, and now he and the country will have to restrategize to deal with a report that will be discussed in New York, and which will pick up more credibility by simply making it to New York. If the Human Rights Council sends the report to the Security Council, the Security Council could theoretically then refer it to the International Criminal Court in The Hague (ICC), the worst scenario from Israel's perspective, and Panodra Beads one that could conceivably lead to indictments against Israeli leaders or officers. The likelihood of that happening is slim, however, since it is widely expected that the US would veto such a resolution. This doesn't mean, however, that Israel is off the hook, since the ICC's prosecutor may be able to take up the issue independently. The more likely scenario is that the issue will be taken up by the General Assembly, which, because of the automatic anti-Israeli majority in that body, will likely kick the issue over to the International Court of Justice in The Hague (ICJ), the body that took up Israel's Mens Watches construction of the security barrier and issued a decision against the fence in 2004.


  

White House Tends to Business With CEO Lunches

Fri, 09 Oct, 2009

WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama hosted another in a series of private lunches with company chieftains Thursday, part of an intensified effort to close rifts with the business sector over White House interventions in the private sector. The meeting brought Jewelry together chief executives Jeff Bezos of Amazon.com Inc.; Lew Hay of FPL Group Inc.; Antonio Perez of Eastman Kodak Co. and Irene Rosenfeld of Kraft Foods Inc. White House aides said the group discussed financial-sector recovery, health-insurance reform, climate change, and job-creation policy. The executives, who all declined to comment, furnished credit-card numbers to pay for their lunches, the White House said. White House officials describe the lunches -- Thursday's was the third hosted by the president since June -- as an effort to smooth relations after a stormy spring and summer marked by collisions between the administration and the corporate world over issues ranging from the Silver Jewelry auto bailouts and corporate salary controls to proposed overhauls of the health-care and energy sectors. Many CEOs have also complained about what they perceive as Mr. Obama's anti-business rhetoric. Participating executives have described the lunches as intimate, off-the-record conversations, and a welcome shift from the scripted, group sessions with business leaders that the Obama White House often held in its first months. After those meetings, some executives complained that they were treated as "props" and not asked for input. The lunch sessions, aides say, have also offered the president a chance to gather comment from top business leaders on some of his biggest initiatives, above all the drive to remake the nation's health-care system and to push legislation to limit industrial emissions. Similar meetings in the Pandora Jewelry White House this summer produced accords with pharmaceutical manufacturers and hospitals to cut their own costs, and help lower the overhaul's price tag. After Thursday's lunch, Mr. Perez of Kodak released a statement through the Business Roundtable, a corporate lobbying group, praising the Democratic health-care bill now in the Senate Finance Committee. The statement said the bill must be revamped to "reduce overall costs sooner." On Tuesday, White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel and Valerie Jarrett, Mr. Obama's top aide for business outreach, who also attended Thursday's lunch, met for dinner with CEOs Jeff Bewkes of Time Warner Inc.; Dan Neidich of Dune Capital Management; Paul Otellini of Intel Corp.; Jim Turley of Ernst & Young LLP; and Andrew Liveris of Dow Chemical Co. Business leaders described as "close to the administration" by a White House aide also attended, including Penny Pritzker, chief executive of Pritzker Realty Group and a top fundraiser for Mr. Obama's presidential campaign; Mark Gallogly, managing partner of Centerbridge Partners; and Robert Wolf, chief executive of the UBS Group Americas and another big Obama fundraiser. "We are looking for ways of having an opportunity to sit down and have constructive dialogue with the business community," Ms. Jarrett said in an interview. Mr. Obama's two Panodra Beads earlier luncheons with corporate executives were on June 25 and July 31. Guests at those gatherings ranged from Howard Schultz of Starbucks Corp. and Mike Duke of Wal-Mart Stores Inc. to Jeff Kindler of Pfizer Inc. and David Cote of Honeywell International Inc. Several CEOs went on to meet with Obama cabinet secretaries to discuss policy issues such as job training and high-school dropout rates. With more small White House sessions in the works, Obama aides say that the president is building a cadre of trusted corporate CEOs to whom he can turn for strategic direction. That focus reflects this administration's Wholesale Watches continuing discomfort with corporate lobbying shops such as the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. The White House asks trade groups for lists of executives to consult, but less often for policy expertise, their leaders say.


  

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