Judge: Ex-Detroit mayor must pay $300,000
A judge has ruled that Detroit’s ex-Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick must pay back more than $300,000 to the city within 90 days as part of his court-ordered $1 million restitution.
U.S. counterterror agency lacks “Google-like” search
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A senior counterterrorism official said on Wednesday his agency lacks “Google-like” search capability that could have identified the suspect in the attempted Christmas Day airline bombing.
Clinton lifts U.S. ban on Muslim scholar
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has lifted a U.S. ban on a planned visit by a leading European Muslim critic of the Iraq war, in a move rights groups hailed as a victory for civil liberties.
Report: FBI broke rules to get phone records
The Justice Department’s inspector general says the FBI used several methods that didn’t meet legal requirements — including Post-it notes and e-mails— to get phone records in terrorism probes.
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