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Politics & The Nation


Politics&Nation A visit to lawschool


Woman complains to EEOC; fiance fired Spending bills loom on Congress’s horizon Obama calls liberal critics ‘sanctimonious’


GAOrevises its report critical of practices at for-profit schools


TheWorld A reminder that the fight goes on


Little progress seen as talks with Iran come to end


Digest Bomb blast injures dozens in the holy city Newprize offered to counterNobel Cheney accused of corruption in oil deal


CORRECTIONS


l In today’s Food section, which was printed in advance, the


amount of butter in the recipe for White Chocolate, Cherry and Pis- tachio Chunkies is incorrect. It should be 12 tablespoons (11/2 sticks). The corrected recipe ap- pears online at washingtonpost. com/recipes.


l A photo caption with a Dec. 5 A-section article about refugees


returning to the disputed North Africanterritory ofWesternSaha- ra incorrectly placed a refugee camp in Dakhla. The camp, for Sahrawis, or native Saharans, is named for that city but is in Alge- ria. Also, the feature was labeled “Letter from Dakhla, Morocco.” The city is in a part of Western Sahara claimed by Morocco, but the label shouldhave referredtoit as being inWestern Sahara.


l ANov.29FedPagearticleabout


a review of State Department op- erations misstated the first name of thepolicydirectorof theBrook- ings Institution’s Foreign Assis- tanceReformProject.He isNoam Unger, notNormUnger.


l ANov.29Metroarticleabout46 PrinceGeorge’sCountypoliceoffi-


cersbeingsuspendedorplacedon administrative duty incorrectly said that a police trial board had recommended discipline short of firing for an officerwhose pursuit of a motorcyclist on the Capital Beltway sparked a fatal eight-car pileup. The trial board recom- mended termination as a possible formofdiscipline.The article also incorrectly said that Police Chief Roberto L. Hylton had fired 18 officers or civilian employees for reasons that included drug use and sexual assault. Some of those people resigned or retired before they could be disciplined.


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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 8, 2010


Suit challenging terrorist list is dismissed Judge says father


of Yemeni cleric lacks legal standing to sue


BY SPENCER S. HSU A federal judge tossed out a


lawsuit Tuesday that challenged the Obama administration’s placement of aYemeni cleric,who is also a U.S. citizen, on a kill-or- capture list of terrorists linked to al-Qaeda. U.S. District Judge John D.


Bates of theDistrict ruled that the Yemeni fatherof thecleric,al-Qae- da propagandist and plotter An- waral-Aulaqi, lackedthe standing to bring the challenge in federal court. Bates’s 83-page opinion handed a victory to the White House and a setback to civil liber- ties groups. Bates also said the case raised


“stark” and “perplexing” ques- tions about the scope of presiden- tial wartime powers and the role of the courts before concluding that he lacked the jurisdiction to review the targeting of a U.S. citi- zen abroad for death. “This Court recognizes the


somewhat unsettling nature of its conclusion — that there are cir- cumstances in which the Execu- tive’s unilateral decision to kill a U.S. citizenoverseas is . . . judicial- ly unreviewable. But this case squarely presents such a circum- stance,”Bateswrote. “The serious issues regarding


the merits of the alleged authori- zation of the targeted killing of a U.S. citizen overseas must await another day or another [nonjudi- cial] forum,” such as before Con- gress, the judge said. The American Civil Liberties


Union and the Center for Consti- tutionalRights filedsuit inAugust inbehalf ofAulaqi’s father,Nasser al-Aulaqi.The groups said the tar- geting of Anwar al-Aulaqi for kill- ing or capture far fromawar zone and absent an imminent threat amounted to an extrajudicial exe- cutionorder against aU.S. citizen. They also asked for clear legal standards for such operations. Unnamed U.S. officials dis-


closed in the spring that Aulaqi, 39, had been placed on the CIA and Joint Special Operations Command capture-or-kill lists be- fore formally designating him a global terrorist in July. The gov- ernment would not confirm or


denyAulaqi’s status in court. Officials say Aulaqi, who is in


hiding, was an operational plan- ner in last year’s failed Christmas Day bomb plot against a jetliner over Detroit and an inspiration behind numerous attacks, includ- ing theNovember 2009 shootings at Fort Hood, Tex. His organiza- tion, al-Qaeda of theArabian Pen- insula, alsoclaimedresponsibility for last month’s disrupted cargo bomb plot. In a statement after Bates’s rul-


ing, Jameel Jaffer, deputy legal directorof theACLU, saiditwould be “a profound mistake” to allow the government “unreviewable authority to carry out the targeted killing of any American, any- where.” “It would be difficult to con-


ceive of apropositionmore incon- sistent with the Constitution or more dangerous to American lib- erty,” Jaffer said. Bates said the lawsuit was


“uniqueandextraordinary.” Inthe opinion, he wondered why a judge’s warrant was required for the government to target a U.S. citizenoverseas for electronic sur- veillance but prohibited to target one for death. On the other hand, he asked,


DIGEST NATIONALSECURITY


Out ofGuantanamo, back into terrorism Two former Guantanamo Bay


detaineeswhowere repatriatedor resettled by the Obama adminis- tration have engaged in terrorist activities, and three others are suspected of returning to the fight, according to a report re- leasedTuesdayby theOffice of the Director ofNational Intelligence. The five detainees,who are not


named in the unclassified version of a report sent to Congress, were among 66 transferred out of the U.S. military detention center in Cuba sinceObama took office. An administration official said one and probably both of the con- firmed recidivistswereAfghans. Of the 532Guantanamodetain-


ees released by the Bush adminis- tration, 79 are confirmed as hav- ing returned to the fight, and 66 others are suspected of having reengaged in terrorist or insur- gent activities, the report says. Thirteen detainees released from Guantanamoarenowdeadand54 are in custody; 83 remain at large. “Unfortunately, these latest


numbersmake clear that fulfilling a campaign promise to close Guantanamo Bay is overriding what should be the administra- tion’s first priority: protecting


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At PearlHarbor inHawaii, veterans Bernard Comito, left,Howard Snell and Ray Brittain salute the colors during the national anthem at a memorial service on the 69th anniversary of the attack.


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pointed out that the last adminis- tration “knew of recidivism, too, butwent ahead because they, too, wanted to close”Guantanamo. “Theeffort tocloseGitmois still


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can a citizen use the courts to defend his constitutional rights while evading U.S. authorities, calling for “jihad” and planning for a terrorist organization that has carried out several attacks on the country? Bates agreed with lawyers for


the Obama administration who saidthatAulaqi’s father lackedthe standing to sue on behalf of his son, who they promised could safely turnhimself inifhewanted access to the federal courts as a U.S. citizen. Anwar al-Aulaqi was born inNewMexico in 1971. More broadly, the judge wrote


that inwar, the targeting of adver- saries is inherently a “political question” for the other branches of government to decide. Assess- ing Aulaqi’s ties to al-Qaeda, the dangerheposes toAmericanlives, and related diplomatic and mili- tary factors is beyond the court’s ability tomanage,Bates said. The administration also in-


voked the state secrets privilege, arguing that the case could not be decided without revealing infor- mation damaging to national se- curity.But it agreedthat itwasnot necessary to decide that question to dismiss the case. hsus@washpost.com


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