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“Public service was never meant to
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Extraordinary challenges demand extraordinary leadership.” John Boehner,
after being re-elected
speaker of the House Article, 1A9/11 case lawyers ordered not to talk
WASHINGTON - The military judge in charge of the trial for purported Sept.
11, 2001, mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and four others has ruled that lawyers cannot share even unclassified materials or discuss the information with the press or public, and has ordered that the names of the jurors be kept secret in the trial.
The ruling by the judge, Army Col. James Pohl, follows an order on Dec. 6 in which he directed that any evidence or discussion about harsh interrogation techniques used against the five men also will be kept secret, despite protests from human-rights groups that the government is trying to hide the fact that the men were tortured.
The new ruling, issued Dec. 20 but made public Thursday, marks the second time the judge has sided with government prosecutors at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Members of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, as well as a consortium of attorneys representing various media outlets, including the Los Angeles Times and the Chicago Tribune, are continuing to pursue legal challenges to Pohl’s orders.
Clinton stays busy, sets return to work
WASHINGTON - Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, sidelined for almost a month by a string of medical problems, is upbeat and planning to return to work next week, the State Department said Thursday.
One day after being released from the New York hospital that was treating a blood clot in her head, Clinton was at home resting, but was far from idle. She spent the day engaging with her senior staff, reviewing paperwork and calling in to a meeting of her foreign-policy advisory board, said her spokesman, Victoria Nuland.
“She’s looking forward to getting back to the office,” Nuland said. “She is very much planning to do so next week.”
Police say teens spiked milkshakes
ROCKLIN, Calif. - Two California teenagers were arrested on accusations that they gave the parents of one of the girls milkshakes spiked with prescription sleeping pills so the teen could use the Internet past her curfew, police said.
The medicated shakes worked, but the parents became suspicious when they woke up groggy the next morning, Rocklin police Lt.
Lon Milka told The Sacramento Bee in a story Thursday. They obtained a drug kit from police so they could test themselves for tampering.
The tests were positive, and the couple went back to police with the results. Their 15-year-old daughter and her 16-year-old friend were taken to Juvenile Hall on Saturday and booked on suspicion of conspiracy and willfully mingling a pharmaceutical with food, Milka said.
Milka said the younger girl told investigators that she thought her parents’ Internet policy was too strict.
Internet access at the family’s home was shut off every night at 10, he said.
Authorities are not identifying the teens because they are minors. Placer County prosecutors have not yet decided whether to file charges.
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