On the morning of Sept. 3, the first day the Pentagon said they could, Alicia Butler and her spouse, Judith Chedville, who is a Texas Army National Guard officer, went to Austin’s Camp Mabry so Ms. Butler could get a military spouse identification card and register for the same federal marriage benefits provided to wives and husbands of heterosexual service members.
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North Korea has proposed high-level United States with talks to discuss media programmes of nuclear weapons and relief of the tension in the peninsula, State media said.
"We propose talks of high level between the North and the United States to ensure peace and stability in the region and release the tension on the Korean peninsula", powerful National Commission for defense of North Korea said in a statement that carried by the Korea Central News Agency.
The North is willing to have "serious discussions on a wide range of issues," including the United States aim to make the world free of the nuclear arsenal, said, urging the United States to set the time and place for the talks.
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On 12 March 2004, acting attorney general James B. Comey and officials of the Department of Justice was on the verge of resignation on orders of electronic surveillance, which believed that it is illegal.
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A blockbuster posted Saturday by CNET article alleges that the national security agency has the power to listen to phone calls of Americans without a warrant.
That bold statement illuminated social media, but also drew skepticism, with many arguing that it seemed to be based on a misunderstanding.
The basis of the CNET article that focused on an exchange between Representative Jerrold Nadler (DN.And) and FBI Director Robert Mueller at a hearing on Thursday. (See above). During the interrogation, Nadler said that in a separate report, behind closed doors, he had said that NSA analysts can listen to the content of a telephone call at the discretion of the analyst.
Given the apparent illegality of listen to phone calls of Americans without warrants, some questioned whether Nadler understood the report cited. From the Saturday night, several publications were not able to reach the Congressman for comment.
Kevin Drum completo Mother Jones writes that "information of that phone" can mean one of many things, and that Nadler may have been "confused the capacity of an analyst to obtain information for a phone number of the Subscriber with the ability to listen to the call of its own." Julian Sanchez of regulations wrote Nadler can refers to a set of circumstances that is narrower than the CNET article involved.
