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Bush says military tribunals necessary 'in time of war'
http://cgi.usatoday.com/usatonline/20011120/3637660s.htm
President Bush defended on Monday his executive order that would allow the
secretary of Defense to establish military tribunals to try some foreigners
accused of terrorism or aiding terrorism. ''I need to have that
extraordinary option,'' Bush said. ''The option to use a military tribunal
in time of war makes a lot of sense'' and is ''the absolute right thing to
do,'' he said. Civil libertarians and some members of Congress have
questioned the wisdom and necessity of circumventing the usual
constitutional safeguards that U.S. civilian courts provide. Senate
Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., has scheduled hearings
later this month on the issue and wants Attorney General John Ashcroft to
testify.
Capitol can't keep up with record demand for Old Glory
In a sign of surging patriotism since Sept. 11, the Capitol architect's
office has run out of flags that fly over the Capitol before members of
Congress give them to constituents. It's the first time the office has run
out of flags, said Jim Forbes, spokesman for the House Administration
Committee. They are about 30,000 flags and 6 months behind, Forbes said.
About 100,000 flags are flown briefly from the roof each year to provide
members of Congress souvenirs to send home to their districts. The flags
come with a certificate of authenticity inscribed to recognize an event or
person. The architect's office got 14,000 requests in September, double the
number a year ago. The record for most flags flown over the Capitol in a
day: 10,471 on July 4, 1976, to mark the bicentennial.
Two Senate buildings reopen after anthrax scare
The Dirksen and Russell Senate office buildings reopened after closing
Saturday because of a letter suspected of containing anthrax. The letter to
Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., was found in one of 280 barrels of quarantined
congressional mail. Tests had not been completed Monday. Authorities were
using special procedures to try to preserve fingerprints or other evidence.
The FBI said all the impounded congressional mail has been inspected, and no
other suspicious letters were found. Still closed was the Hart Senate Office
Building, where an anthrax-tainted letter was opened Oct. 15. In a related
development, the Justice Department announced that two mailroom sites inside
the Bureau of Prisons headquarters in Washington had tested positive for
trace anthrax contamination that posed ''a minimal risk of inhalation
anthrax.'' The mailroom has been sealed. -- Kevin Johnson
Salvadoran admits helping Sept. 11 hijacker get ID
Victor Lopez-Flores, a Salvadoran, pleaded guilty to helping a terrorist
hijacker obtain a Virginia identification card and to illegally re-entering
the USA after being deported. He faces a possible 35-year prison term at
sentencing Feb. 2 in Alexandria, Va. He said he didn't know of the terrorist
plot. Lopez-Flores admitted that he returned and that he falsely certified
on Aug. 2 that Ahmed Alghamdi, one of the hijackers, lived with him.
Tourism ads feature Bush pitching return to normalcy
The Travel Industry Association of America has launched a $12.4 million ad
campaign that features President Bush. The ads use clips from a Bush speech
urging people to return to normal activities. The speech is interspersed
with a waiter, theme park employee, airline crewmember, cruise ship captain
and others, all echoing the president's message.
Border Patrol agents applying for air marshal jobs
The nation's new air marshal program is giving hundreds of Border Patrol
agents an opportunity for jobs with better pay. The Federal Aviation
Administration has received 110,000 applications, but it won't disclose how
many will be hired or from which agency they might come. However, The
Arizona Republic reported that there has been a flood of applicants from the
Border Patrol.
Many states creating new homeland security offices
A growing number of states have created offices or coordinators for homeland
security since the Sept. 11 attacks. They include Ala., Ariz., Ark., Colo.,
Del., Fla., Ga., Idaho, Ill., Ind., Kan., Ky., La., Maine, Md., Mass.,
Minn., Mo., Mont., Neb., Nev., N.H., N.J., N.Y., N.C., N.D., Ohio, Okla.,
Pa., S.C., S.D., Tenn., Texas, Utah, Va. and Wyo.
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