Byron York - Holder ignored risks of civilian terror trials
An Iowa farmer tried to warn Attorney General Eric Holder on the risks of trying high-value foreign terrorism suspects in American civilian courts. When Holder insisted that “failure is not an option” — his defense of the Obama administration’s decision to try 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in federal court in New York — Iowa Sen. Charles Grassley attempted to give the attorney general a little taste of reality.
“I’m a farmer, not a lawyer,” Grassley told Holder at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing last November. “I don’t know how you can make a statement that failure to convict is not an option when you’ve got juries in this country. I think a lot of Americans thought O.J. Simpson ought to be convicted of murder.”
Susan Ferrechio - Ethics panel urges censure for Rangel
The House ethics committee voted 9-1 Tuesday to recommend that Rep. Charlie Rangel, D-N.Y., be censured for 11 rule violations ranging from improper use of congressional stationery to using his influence in Congress to solicit funds for a school named after him.
The bipartisan panel also ordered Rangel to reimburse the Internal Revenue Service for taxes he failed to pay on rental income from a vacation villa in the Dominican Republic.
"We have worked together in this matter in a way that has been quite wrenching and we're satisfied with our conclusion," Committee Chairwoman Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif., said.
Julie Mason - Obama presses balking Senate Republicans to ratify START
Facing the unappealing prospect of meeting his Russian counterpart with their nuclear arms deal unraveling, President Obama Thursday intensified pressure on the Senate to ratify START.
"The key point here is this is not about politics -- it's about national security," Obama said. "This is not a matter that can be delayed."
Obama this weekend is scheduled to meet with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev at a NATO conference in Portugal.
The two leaders previously struck a deal aimed at reducing their respective nuclear weapons stockpiles by about 30 percent, and instituting new procedures for mutual inspection and verification.
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