An e-mail released today contradicted testimony last month in which the attorney general?s aide said that no successors were considered before the attorneys were fired.
Every administration aims for something close to complete control over the nation's foreign policy. The idea is that the United States, while open to debating disparate views at home, should speak clearly with one voice when it comes to dealing with other countries. But that principle is frequently challenged as lawmakers, former officials, and assorted VIPs step into the role of roving freelance diplomat–and enjoy the fruits of being actors on the global stage.
Mutobo, Rwanda—Ezekiel Nzamwita fidgets awkwardly in a ratty T-shirt and baggy jacket. The onetime primary-school teacher is still getting used to civilian garb after spending a decade in prison-issue pink jumpsuits. "Ten years is a long time," he says, "but things have become better." A confessed killer, Nzamwita is one of about 8,000 genocide suspects released in February from Rwanda's overcrowded prisons as part of a national reconciliation effort after the 1994 bloodletting that claimed a million lives. The 51-year-old Hutu admitted being part of a group that killed a Tutsi man and stole his cows. Nzamwita won his freedom after asking the victim's brother for forgiveness.
The killing was systematic. It was relentless. It was brutal. The weapon of choice was the machete and, the killers were people's neighbors and colleagues and friends. As many as 1 million Rwandans were killed in just three months during the spring of 1994.
AP - Rutgers women's basketball coach C. Vivian Stringer said Friday the team had accepted radio host Don Imus' apology. She said he deserves a chance to move on but hopes the furor his racist and sexist insult caused will be a catalyst for change.
AP - The Justice Department weighed political activism and membership in a conservative law group in evaluating the nation's federal prosecutors, documents released in the probe of fired U.S. attorneys show.
AP - Iraq's parliament met in an extraordinary session of "defiance" Friday, the Muslim day of prayer, and declared it would not bow to terrorism. A bouquet of red roses and a white lily sat in the place of Mohammed Awad, the lawmaker killed in the parliament dining hall suicide bombing claimed by al-Qaida.
Millions of White House e-mails may be missing, White House spokeswoman Dana Perino acknowledged Friday. "I wouldn't rule out that there were a potential 5 million e-mails lost," Perino said. A liberal watchdog group alleges that over a two-year period official White House e-mail traffic for hundreds of days has vanished -- in possible violation of the federal Presidential Records Act.
Search engine leader Google is buying privately held DoubleClick, a top digital marketing services firm, for $3.1 billion in cash, the companies said Friday afternoon.
The military's controversial V-22 Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft will head to Iraq for its first combat tour later this year, Marine officials announced Friday. After 18 years and $20 billion in development the aircraft will give the Marines more flexibility, officials said. The aircraft was redesigned after two accidents in 2000 that killed 23 Marines. Accidents in 1991 and 1992 killed seven. The Marines say the plane's problems are in the past.
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